FOR a dozen years, she lay bound with iron chains at her neck, separating her from the freedom of wildlife with the cheers of young orangutans. Mely is her name. She was only several weeks old when she was taken from the remote forest of Kalimantan. Her mother died at a hunter’s hands. So she became an orphan, living from the pity of humans.

Her childhood and teenage years were spent in chains. No other peers taught her to hang from giant tree