The multiplicity of humanity in the orangutan adoption accounts of Alfred Russel Wallace and William Temple Hornaday

Title: The multiplicity of humanity in the orangutan adoption accounts of Alfred Russel Wallace and William Temple Hornaday
Creator: Tsao, Tiffany
Relation: Clio Vol. 43, Issue 1, p. 1-31
Publisher: Indiana University, Department of English and Linguistics
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2013
Description: In 1855 and 1878, respectively, the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and the American naturalist William Temple Hornaday ended up adopting orangutan infants in the course of their travels through the jungles of British Borneo. Both men developed affectionate attachments for their new wards. While rearing his infant, Wallace wrote a letter home expressing his fondness for the "orphan baby" under his care, describing how he fed her from a bottle, bathed, and combed her hair every day. Four years after his own experience raising an orangutan, Hornaday produced an article for a boys' magazine reminiscing about the "fat and mischievous . . . jungle cherub" whom he trained to eat solid food and allowed to share his bed.
Subject: orangutan adoption; Alfred Russel Wallace; William Temple Hornaday
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1341321
Identifier: uon:28715
Identifier: ISSN:0884-2043
Language: eng
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