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Orangutans use specially prepared sticks to pry termites, ants, and other insects from colonies high up in trees. They also learn quite quickly. After watching local humans spear fishing, a male orangutan was observed using a pole to acquire fish from a net.

This red-haired humanoid being is in fact a Sumatran Orangutan. She resides in Sumatra, and island in western Indonesia, on the other side of the world. She has seen over 70% of its original forests lost in Indonesia. Twenty-five million hectares of her previous range was devastated for the profit of palm oil, which ends up in certain types of cooking oil, shampoo, lipstick, chocolate, toothpaste, granola bars, biofuels and cleaning detergents. Everything from soaps to beauty products to burgers use this oil, particularly those that are mass produced. Poisonous pesticides are used extensively, and they too end up in these products. Some of the palm-oil land previously harvested has been abandoned. And so it is that 92%...

I hope these paintings will in some way inspire you to investigate these organisms further. Their wondrous forms and capabilities are often overlooked and underappreciated. Imagine the tapestry that would color your world if you could communicate using sonar (yet still be able to learn human sign language) like a dolphin, smell with the intensity of the Polar Bear, understand chemical signals like the Honey Bee, navigate up to 600 miles from memory like the Desert Elephant, or utilize the earth’s geomagnetic fields to swim 800 miles like the Green Sea Turtle. The true complexity of the communication between most organisms lies in realms we still know relatively little about. The descriptions for each painting include facts, interviews, and...