An orangutan stole my camera and took close-up selfies - in pictures

Wildlife photographer Ian Wood has been capturing great apes in the wild for decades, but when a young orangutan discovered his hidden camera on a recent Borneo trip he got some truly unexpected results One of the challenges of wildlife photography is trying to come up with ways to take images that haven't been shot before. Through my conservation work with orangutans I've had numerous opportunities to photograph these great apes over the last couple of decades, but on a recent annual fundraising trip to Tanjung Puting national park in Borneo I got some unexpected, close-up results. Continue reading...