I have published a childrens book! 📚🦧

'The Rimba' is a lyrical tale about the rainforest’s guardian spirit, a wise orangutan named Rimba, who rises to protect her home and the creatures within it, from the impacts of deforestation for palm oil. 🌴

#NewBook #ChildrensBook #orangutan #conservation

Are you also sick of seeing a poster full of text and 6 blue rectangles around it at a conference? 🙄

If you know someone who could benefit from professional scientific illustration for figures, presentations, and posters, please like, share, or tag them!

#ScientificIllustration

Next AniMove course for #animaltracking data will be in Costa Rica, Nov-Dec 2025! Find out more and sign up here: animove.org/next-animove...

🚨 A stark contrast... On one side of the river, the productive and vibrant rainforest - home to #orangutans, tigers, gibbons, hornbills and countless other species. On the other, never ending swathes of #OilPalm plantations, creeping closer every day. 🌴

Or we could just stop them needing to be translocated in the first place... 🤔

‘Like kidnapping your grandpa’: why relocating orangutans threatens their survival www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New article by my PhD advisor Erica Cartmill that does a fantastic job summarizing our lab's research on playful teasing in great apes! I bet you'll be ape-solutley tickled to read it (ok sorry I had to): www.scientificamerican.com/article/grea...

#primates #animals #humor #science #anthropology

Hi, I'm Emma, an orangutan-ologist 🦧 and digital illustrator 🎨. Follow me for content on #conservation, #AnimalBehaviour, #ScientificIllustration, and obviously #orangutans. 👋🤓