Sentences with phrase «like orangutans»

Like orangutans dying for a cookie, gorillas in the Congo are dying because people in Rwanda need charcoal to cook and heat.

But whatever it's called, it's clear that palm oil production is leading to massive deforestation due to carbon - emitting activities like slashing and burning the forest to make way for palm plantations, as well as habitat loss for a wide variety of species like orangutans, tigers, rhinoceros, and elephants.

Biofuels will continue to pollute the atmosphere more than petrol or diesel, all under the veil of an emissions - reducing policy, and will increasingly threaten the homes of animals like the orangutans and gibbons that live here in Borneo.

The designation could increase the area of forest conserved within oil palm plantations provided it has high conservation significance, such as serving as habitat for endangered species like orangutans, Sumatran tigers, and rhinos.

Thanks to a handful of low - cost budget airlines in the region, once far - flung gems (like the orangutans in Malaysia or the blue - flames of Indonesia) are more accessible than ever.

This may hold true for many other herbivorous animals, like orangutans, many birds, and even some other rodents, but not for rabbits.

Swing through the forest canopy like orangutans as you climb rope ladders, sail crossings, and tackle the Tarzan swings.

Small farmers could be key actors in reforming Indonesia's palm oil industry, which has been linked to child and forced labor, deforestation and the demise of iconic species like orangutans.

At the other extreme are solitary species, like the orangutans.

Indonesia's palm oil has long earned the ire of conscious consumers — its production has been linked to child and forced labour, massive deforestation and the demise of iconic species like orangutans.

It attempted to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Monkey by using images that looked like orangutans.

This large - scale deforestation is pushing many species to extinction, and findings show that if nothing changes species like the orangutan could become extinct in the wild within the next 5 - 10 years, and Sumatran tigers less than 3 years.»

Some of these people were talking about eat carbs like an orangutan or something.

Despite its genetic detriments — considerable dimensions, high center of gravity, substantial weight — the Urus hugs the road like a salamander climbing up a sheet of glass, it juggles power and torque like an orangutan brachiating between trees, its responses are as sharp as a chameleon's tongue, and it decelerates like a serpent recoiling from an attack.

By rescuing individual animals belonging to species like the orangutan and reintroducing them into protected areas in the wild, our work also plays a role in the conservation of the species as a whole.

On top of that, crustaceans like the Orangutan Crab were also caught by the cameras.

RSPB highlighted their current work in forests, focusing on their international campaigns like the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project, whose on - the - ground work is making a difference to places like the Harapan and the Sabangau rainforests, on the front line of advancing wave oil palm which is driving deforestation and the corrupt conversion of forest for plantation concessions.

Not exact matches

Like, say, chomping down on an Orangutan finger like it was a candy Like, say, chomping down on an Orangutan finger like it was a candy like it was a candy bar.

if its the human species... we are but a single branch of primates in the great ape family... Like gorillas and orangutans — we are the product of an evolutionary chain that included compet itors like Cro magnon, and Neanderthal — just like any other animal specLike gorillas and orangutans — we are the product of an evolutionary chain that included compet itors like Cro magnon, and Neanderthal — just like any other animal speclike Cro magnon, and Neanderthal — just like any other animal speclike any other animal species.

THe congregaton was applauding, whooping, hollering and in general behaving like a group of rabid orangutans.

Desiring to be like God, he can contemplate the possibility that he might be a fit mate for an orangutan.

He appears to be like a grown - up child, or, perhaps, a hairless orangutan; a proto - human being, he is human only or mainly in looks.

As he describes his life, it sounds like a Vegas floor show, complete with Bobby Berosini and his dancing orangutans, Sigfried and Roy and a naked sleight - of - hand artist.

Eating Season is what I like to call the 3 - month extravaganza that begins at Halloween when Americans consume even more of their most delicious and comforting candies, bulldozes through Thanksgiving, when we eat all our feelings about being with family (or our country having elected a nationalist orangutan to the White House around this time last year), continues through the December holidays, and ends with the Super Bowl when we can no longer actually chew and consume all our favorite foods in mushy, dip form.

It makes distinctions between similar types of animals, like the gorilla, orangutan, and chimpanzee.

A recent study from the England's University of Portsmouth showed that young orangutans and chimps open their mouths and breathe faster when they're tickled, just like human babies, indicating it's a universal response to pleasure.

So the orangutan chromosome setup looks the most like the ancient ancestor revealed by Kim's team, with eight ancient chromosomes intact.

Among all mammals studied thus far, the orangutan's chromosomes are the most like those of the first placental mammal.

In that study, published in January 2015, it was reported that a female orangutan called Tilda at Cologne Zoo, in Germany, was able to make sounds comparable to human consonant and vowel - like calls at the same rhythm and pace as human speech.

Like many large vertebrates, orangutans play a particularly critical role in maintaining healthy ecosystem function.

Poached ivory fetches at least $ 165 million a year in Asia while our closest living relatives — great apes like chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans — are being kidnapped from the wild and sold to private collectors.

After taking measurements and collecting observations on nine living primate species, including humans, Carrier concluded that the living apes with the shortest legs for their body size, like gorillas and orangutans, are those that spend the least time in trees.

I've seen him walking with orangutans after having never experienced something like that before.

I'd like to see a re-doing of all the great ape genomes, including chimpanzee and orangutan, to get a comprehensive view of the genetic variants that distinguish humans from the great apes.

In species that favor multiple partners, like gorillas or orangutans, males can be more than 50 percent larger than females, apparently to help them fight off other males.

She is currently investigating whether her results hold up among the Old World primates of Africa and Asia, a group that includes monkeys like baboons and mandrills and apes such as orangutans and chimps.

The clear - cutting of forests leaves species like tigers and orangutans without food or shelter and, as a result, a third of Indonesia's mammal species are now considered critically endangered.

I felt just like I do any time that orange orangutan in the White House tweets.

(This scaffolding is large enough to accommodate a sequence in which Darwin spends time with Jenny the orangutan at the London Zoo in 1838, three years before Annie's birth: she mimics his actions, shows human - like emotions, and provides apparent evidence for his then emerging theory — as well as a charming interlude where Darwin is young and curious and not tormented.)

We have mapped the Earth's surface, but the creatures that live on it continue to elude us; every year brings news of thousands of newly discovered plant and animal species, some large (a new kind of orangutan was confirmed last year), some small (the dragon ant of Papua New Guinea) and many whimsical, like a spider that looks like a Harry Potter sorting hat, and named Eriovixia gryffindori.

Faced with awe - inspiring occult evidence of extraterrestrial consciousness, pesky humans might actually — aw, for chrissakes — paw at it like a bunch of orangutans!

The opening credits feature a baby's fingertip reaching out to touch the title of the film, just like the famous Sistine Chapel painting of God and Adam brushing fingertips (the image becomes even more confrontational when it's repeated, with Darwin touching the finger of an orangutan).

Along the way they get in a number of sticky situations (sticky, it should be noted, in every possible sense of the word) involving, among others, a gang of female jewel thieves who look like they've jumped straight from the pages of Maxim magazine, a wonderful orangutan named Suzanne, and a bumbling wildlife marshal who's after the ape.

From the opening sequence of young Mowgli (Neel Sethi) racing through the jungle in the company of his adoptive wolf family and his feline guardian, the black panther Bagheera (Ben Kingsley), through its comic setpieces with the layabout Baloo the Bear (Bill Murray) and its sinister interludes with the python Kaa (Scarlett Johansson), the despot orangutan King Louie (Christopher Walken), and the scarred Bengal tiger Shere Khan (Idris Elba), the movie bears you along on a current of enchantment, climaxing in a thunderous extended action sequence that dazzles while tying off every lingering plot point, and gathering up all the bits of folklore, iconography, and Jungian dream symbols that have been strewn throughout the story like Hansel and Gretel's breadcrumbs.

Along the way, they encounter dangerous and unscrupulous characters, like constrictor snake Kaa (voice of Scarlett Johansson) and oversize orangutan King Louie (voice of Christopher Walken).

This may explain the plethora of guest stars, or possibly even some of the more pointless plot tactics, like bringing in an orangutan.

Ultimately, Duplicity is rather like a baby orangutan in a nappy — it looks beautiful, but stinks.

Ah, your Borneo cruise sounds like it would be great — orangutans on the itinerary?

With these soft corals we often find our macro like Squat lobsters both hairy and common, squat shrimps, translucent anemone shrimp, nudibranchs, orangutan crabs, hermit crabs, porcelain crabs, mantis shrimps and flatworms as well as isopods.

Apart from trekking to see the Orangutans, there are a few other things to do in Sumatra that we highly recommend like chilling out in Lake Toba, surfing in untouched reefs, and exploring the many beautiful sights near Berastagi.