{"id":564154,"date":"2026-04-04T13:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/564154\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T13:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:26:06","slug":"birute-galdikas-79-has-died-she-made-major-discoveries-about-orangutans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/564154\/","title":{"rendered":"Birut\u00e9 Galdikas, 79, has died. She made major discoveries about orangutans."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"RPBM7ESQ6JEXLGHQTP4SYVUJ3E\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Birut\u00e9 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.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"Z5DGJQXVGJEBNIHHJRDJHMOW6A\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Every day, Dr. Galdikas walked up to a dozen miles through a dense wood plagued by fire ants and pit vipers. Leeches fell out of her socks. It rained so much, the swamps swelled up to her armpits. Most nights, she wrote in a 1995 memoir, she arrived back at her bark-walled hut \u201cdrenched in sweat and convinced that the wild orangutans had all moved out of the study area simply to spite me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birut\u00e9 Galdikas spent two months in the rainforest before she saw an orangutan. She was 25, and she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[217596,79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-564154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-partner-exclude","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}