Dehradun, Nov. 10 -- The huge male Bornean Orangutan

Around the World with the Most Travelled Indian

Before I draw the curtain on the Borneo series, I thought I should reflect on the incredible wildlife we witnessed on this equatorial island between the Asian landmass and the scattered big & small islands of Indonesia, one of which is Borneo itself. In fact, Borneo is shared unequally between 3 nations - Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei and the first animal that comes to my mind when I think of either Borneo or Sumatra, is the mighty hairy great ape - the Orangutan. We saw the orangutans in the contained Sepilok Sanctuary and not in the pure wild of Sakau, but fortunately we were compensated when the only adult male in Sepilok paid us a v...