Re: Orangutan perils

["lupusdomesticus" lupusdomesticus]

--- In  Marc Myers <> wrote:
>
> Jeepers Bernie, you mean all those Tarzan movies were true?
> Nothing in the article suggested sexuality.

There was an article about the Borneo ogangutangs "trained" for return
to nature in Outside Magazine a few years back. The point of the
article was how futile it was to try to turn tame apes into wild ones
again. One difficulty and danger was that the animals were not afraid
of humans anymore, and after they realised that they were stronger
than humans the orangs were downright dangerous to the workers. There
also was (at that time) at least one rape case, in which the female
worker was wise enough not to resist.

Thus it is not great news that this has happened more than once, and
it seems to be a real, not imagined danger to female visitors.