Here is a list of some popular natural history books you may like to bring with you :

Tanjung Puting National Park, Orangutans and Their Habitat – Published in 2007 by Orangutan Foundation and Yayorin.

  • A Field Guide to the Mammals of Borneo (The Sabah Society). J Payne and CM Francis (1998)
  • A field guide to the birds of Borneo (New Holland). Susan Myers (2009)
  • A Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and Bali: The Greater Sunda Islands (OUP). J MacKinnon, K. Phillipps (1993)
  • Fascinating insects of South East Asia (BBooks). (2010)
  • Butterflies of Malaysian Borneo – a pocket guide (BBooks) (2010)
  • Some books that you may like to read before you visit Tanjung Puting:
  • Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo by Birute M. F. Galdikas (Aug 1, 1996)
  • The Intimate Ape: Orangutans and the Secret Life of a Vanishing Species by Shawn Thompson and Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (Mar 1, 2010)
  • The Malay Archipelago, the Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, With Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace (Sep 5, 2010)
  • The Red Ape: Orangutans and Human Origins by Jeffrey H. Schwartz (Jan 4, 2005)
  • Orangutans (WorldLife Library) by Robert W. Shumaker (Nov 15, 2007)
  • Orangutan Odyssey by Biruté Marija Filomena Galdikas (Oct 1, 1999)
  • Orangutans: Wizards of the Rain Forest by Anne E. Russon (Aug 7, 2004)
  • Face to Face With Orangutans (Face to Face with Animals) by Tim Laman and Cheryl Knott (May 12, 2009)
  • Among Orangutans: Red Apes and the Rise of Human Culture by Carel van Schaik and Perry van Duijnhoven (Nov 30, 2004)
  • Orangutans: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation by Junaidi Payne and Cede Prudente (Mar 31, 2008)
  • Orangutans: Geographic Variation in Behavioral Ecology and Conservation (Oxford Biology) by Serge A. Wich, S. Suci Utami Atmoko, Tatang Mitra Setia and Carel P. van Schaik (Feb 28, 2010)
  • Orangutans (Welcome to the World Series) by Diane Swanson (Jan 1, 2010)
  • Thinkers of the Jungle by Gerd Schuster, Willie Smits and Jay Ullal (Apr 2008)
  • Orangutans: Their Evolution, Behavior, and Future by Gisela T. Kaplan and Lesley J. Rogers (Jan 2000)
  • Orangutans (Amazing Animals (Weigl)) by Michael De Medeiros (Jul 2008)
  • A Dark Place in the Jungle: Science, Orangutans, and Human Nature by Linda Spalding (May 1, 1999)
  • Among the Orangutans: The Birute Galdikas Story (The Great Naturalists) by Evelyn Gallardo (Mar 1, 1993)
Stories and information for younger readers :
    • Little Sibu: An Orangutan Tale by Sally Grindley and John Butler (Mar 1999)
    • Orang Utan’s Play Time (Let’s Go To The Zoo!) by Laura Gates Galvin, Photographic and Jesse Cohen (Sep 1, 2002)
    • Baby Orangutan (San Diego Zoo Animal Library) by Julie Shively, Meredith Johnson and San Diego Zoo (Mar 2005)
    • The Orangutan: Forest Acrobat (Animal Close-Ups) by Christine Sourd, Albert Visage and Jean-Paul Ferrero (Jul 2001)
    • Orangutans (Asian Animals) (Pebble Plus: Asian Animals) by Joanne Mattern and Gail Saunders-Smith (Feb 1, 2010)
    • Adventures of Riley: Operation Orangutan (Adventures of Riley (Unnumbered)) by Amanda Lumry (Apr 25, 2007)
    • Climbing Orangutans (Pull Ahead Books) by Shannon Knudsen (Aug 2007)
    • Orangutans Up Close (Zoom in on Animals!) by Carmen Bredeson (Sep 1, 2008)
    • Orangutans (Amazing Animals (Gareth Stevens Paperback)) by Sue Kueffner (Jan 2009)
    • Orangutan (Heinemann Read and Learn: a Day in the Life: Rain Forest Animals) by Anita Ganeri (Sep 2010)
    • Olivia the Orangutan: A Tale of Helpfulness (Animal Fair Values) by Felicia Law and Mike Spoor (Dec 15, 2010)
    • Orangutan Baby (I Love Reading) by Monica Hughes (Jan 2006)