DS: HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD? BG:

When I first went to Southeast Asia in 1971, I didn’t know I would end up studying orangutans in Borneo. All I knew was that I was going to Indonesia with my former husband who received some cameras from National Geographic to document my work. So when I went to the Indonesian Embassy in Washington, D.C. to get a visa, nobody there knew anything about Borneo. The other problems were transportation and communication networks. We did not know where we were going or where we would end up.