His home is up high
The first thing Togar remembers isn't a face: it's the forest seen from above, moving. His mother carried him clinging to her hair, crossing the canopy branch by branch, and he watched the green slide past below. Even now, up high feels to him like the good place, and the ground a little less his own.
An orangutan is made for those heights. Its arms are enormously long and its feet grip like hands, so he hangs, swings and holds on to any branch with an ease that seems perfectly ordinary to Togar. His whole life fits up there, in the canopy: last night's tree, tomorrow's, the branch he watches from. At six he still doesn't cross the canopy alone; when his mother moves, he grabs her hair and goes with her, carried high through the forest.







