Biruté Galdikas, authority on orangutans, has died. She was one of ‘Leakey’s Angels.’

Biruté Galdikas spent two months in the rainforest before she saw an orangutan. She was 25, and she had given up an easy life in Los Angeles for what people told her would be an impossible one in Indonesian Borneo. Every day, Dr. Galdikas walked up to a dozen miles through a dense wood plagued by f...

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