Wildlife Lessons: Life's short, have fun Mug

A motivational coffee mug that supports wildlife conservation. This little orangutan grabbed a water bottle away from one of the caretakers in Orangutan Foundation International's sanctuary and ran to the swamp, where he quickly demonstrated that he knew how to hold a bottle under water and fill it up with more of the beverage of his choice. Shortly thereafter, he tired of the bottle and returned it like a good boy. In a couple of years this orangutan will be old enough to be released back into protected areas of the wilderness with thousands of other formerly rescued orangutans, all "graduates" of OFI's jungle school and care center. Photographs and original poem copyright 2009: Rebecca Reeder Hunt The artist is a volunteer at this sanctuary on the island of Borneo and donates her profits to support OFI's decades-long work of saving orangutans and their habitat.