TWO pairs of eyes meet: one of blue and the other of black. Words of greetings flow from the little lips of the blue-eyed girl as the blackeyed orangutan seemed to enjoy the cool breeze, once in a while scratching its shaggy head with its elongated hands.

The encounter took place one sunny day in August 2003 at Camp Leakey in the Tanjung Puting National Park in Central Kalimantan. After four years of waiting Ruby Fox Creek Nelson, a 12-year-old gi