The ape who escaped Indonesia’s blackmarket trade in pet orangutans

Mongabay
Mar 29, 2017, 8:40 am187 pts
KABANJAHE, Indonesia — Zulbaidah used to take her family’s pet orangutan on road trips. He’d ride in the back with the kids. “He was like my own son,” the 55-year-old woman said at her home in this North Sumatran town. “Who wouldn’t love him?” Those were the good times, when the ape, Krismon,…

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