Family ties!

How the relationship between an infant Tapanuli orangutan and its mother is one of the strongest in the natural world…

- HANNAH DAVIES

Back in 1997, scientists embarked on an expedition to a remote 1,000m-high plateau in Indonesia, known as Batang Toru. There, they made an extraordinary discovery – a new species of primate, now known as the Tapanuli orangutan. They’d been hidden for almost 700,000 years, yet scientists soon discovered the bond between an infant Tapanuli and its mother is one of the strongest and longest in the natural world.