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The orangutan, the strangler fig and the photographer — a story of entwined lives

October 19, 2016June 23, 2025 / mike shanahan / Leave a comment

Orangutan climbing the pillar root of a strangler fig (Ficus stupenda)

Tim Laman / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

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