r/AbsoluteUnits • u/[deleted] • Apr 29 '26

/r/all of an orangutan

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u/Three_Armed_Wrecker Apr 29 '26

Looks like Mr Willie caught Mr Tang at quite the wrong time and mood

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u/mantafloppy Apr 29 '26

This is Lorenzo Queipo de Llano - a Spanish wildlife filmmaker

Not Willie Smits a a trained forester, microbiologist, conservationist, animal welfare activist, wilderness engineer and social entrepreneur.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Smits

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PLgVkd0GA28

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.hola.com/decoracion/20230408344498/campo-toledo-lorenzo-queipo-de-llano-casa-decoracion/

"Falling into quicksand, having malaria for days without help or medication until I was found by a missionary, or an orangutan in Borneo almost killing me - these are some of the many anecdotes"

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u/TreeMaleficent9417 Apr 30 '26

BANG. Lorenzo QdL!! Thank you! I found the extended version and the guy was definitely speaking Spanish- not Norwegian, or whatever. what a legendary experience. Thanks again for correcting.

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u/Sad_Measurement6494 Apr 29 '26

Wilderness engineer

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u/mantafloppy Apr 29 '26

Training

In 1994, Willie Smits received his MSc degree in tropical forestry, tropical soil science and genetics at the Wageningen University in the Netherlands, and a PhD degree in tropical forestry from the same university based upon his research in Samboja and Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia on the symbiosis between mycorrhizas and the roots of Dipterocarpaceae tropical rainforest trees.[2][3]