A visit to the zoo will often leave people wondering; are we watching the apes, or are they watching us?
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For any animal lover it is heartbreaking to see such magnificent creatures in a restricted zoo environment, rather than in their natural habitat, in the wild.
But it is an agonising reality for creatures such as the orangutan that the relatively few members of their species that end up in zoos could be their saviours.
And so we come to the story of Temara. A zoo-born orangutan who was destined to return to the wild in a bold experiment to prove she, and possibly more of her kind, could survive.
The book is as much a story of Temara as it is of the author.
Bullo is a Senior Orangutan Keeper at Perth Zoo and conservation Project Manager of The Orangutan Project.
Temara's release into the wild is for Bullo bitter sweet.
Reaching for the Canopy, $22.99, UWA Publishing, The Orangutan Project, www.orangutan.org.au
