A study of the world’s smelliest and most nutritious and dangerous fruit. Passionately loved and despised by the people of the more tropical parts of SE Asia, durians are against the law in many hotels and public transportation in Singapore and Indonesia. Scientists in Thailand are busy trying to develop a durian variety that doesn’t have a strong aroma. Durians are the favorite food of orangutans, currently struggling for survival as their native habitat is being severely diminished.