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An orangutan would beg to differ, he thinks that Pretty Woman was her best work and tried to recreate a scene or two.
...The people who called Leakey crazy for sending women into the field were certainly sexist, but they weren’t wrong about the dangers any such researcher faced. Apart from the perils posed by angry poachers and corrupt government officials, there is the threat from the animals themselves. Male orangutans procreate by rape and have been known to rape the women studying them (Galdikas’ cook was raped). This was almost the fate of Julia Roberts when she made a documentary at Camp Leakey in 1996. One male took a shine to her and grabbed her as she walked along a path. Luckily, a film crew was present, though it took five men to free her from the ape’s grasp. ....
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