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Two decades later, Smits, 51, has saved more than 1,600 orangutans, gentle and highly intelligent great apes14 now classified as an endangered15 species. They’re threatened by smugglers16 who capture them for the black market pet trade in Indonesia and abroad, by diners who consider orangutan meat a delicacy17, by shopkeepers who sell the animals’ skulls18 as souvenirs19, and by loggers20 who are decimating21 their jungle habitat. Smits’ organization, the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS) , takes in orphaned22 or displaced23 animals and resettles them in protected rain forests. On