Irus is giving Edo and her baby a ride to the morning feeding—except that orangutans don't really ride, they just hang on a person like a sack of gravel, fifty pounds of the deadest dead weight. Irus comes from Babual Baboti, one of the Dayak villages on the periphery of the Lamandau reserve where Yayorin is working to build community support for conservation. He makes about ninety dollars each month as a field assistant at Camp Rasak, where his duties include feeding the released orangutans and periodically following them on their rambles through the forest, seeing where they go and noting their behavior.