Dr. Birute Mary Galdikas' Blog

The  jet lag was so brutal my second day in the Canary Islands that I woke up at 12:30 pm.  I had drunk a cup of coffee the night before.  Big mistake!  I couldn’t  fall sleep until 7:30 am and when I forced myself to wake up, I felt like a zombie.  But I went straight [...]

I arrived in the Canary Islands at one a.m. and went straight to sleep.  I couldn’t get up until twelve hours later at one p.m.  I was so groggy that I could barely make my way out of the hotel room.  I was so jet-lagged and nauseous that I would have willingly confessed to any past [...]

It took one entire day of travel to reach the Canary Islands.  My plane was to leave LAX sometime after eight a.m.   At 4:15 a.m. I get a call from US Airways that my flight has been delayed 100 minutes and that they will make alternative arrangements instead.  I am very grateful.  After hours at [...]

Last night I drove back to Los Angeles in solitude, except for the CD player pumping out BB King and Guns and Roses, from San Diego where I had posted the first two entries on my blog.  Even though it was midnight, it still took two hours and forty minutes to get back because there [...]

I am a person of solitudes.  The species that I work with, the Bornean orangutan, is solitary or semi-solitary.  In the past I have spent many, many days alone on the forest floor observing orangutans, trailing them as they wandered through the forest canopy, foraging for food.  More recently, it almost seems as if I spend [...]

Welcome to my blog where I will be bringing you updates from my life. But first, let me cite a paragraph from my own book Reflections of Eden.  I hope that my blog will present my feelings and some insightful reflections on the issues facing orangutans and forests as well as Borneo and its native [...]