Juno Salazar Parreñas traces the ways in which colonialism and decolonization shape relations between humans and nonhumans at a Malaysian orangutan rehabilitation center, contending that considering rehabilitation from an orangutan perspective will shift conservation biology from ultimately violent investments in population growth and toward a feminist sense of welfare.

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Decolonizing Extinction  1
Part I. Relations
1. From Ape Motherhood to Tough Love  33
2. On the Surface of Skin and Earth  61
Part II. Enclosures
3. Forced Copulation for Conservation  83
4. Finding a Living  105
Part III. Futures
5. Arrested Autonomy  131
6. Hospice for a Dying Species  157
Conclusion: Living and Dying Together  177
Notes  189
References  223
Index  255