Sentences with phrase «sumatran orang»

It's important to get things right from jump street vis - à - vis customer service; a man (I make no claim to his wisdom, he may have had the wisdom a closed - head - injured orang) once said «if you don't have time to do it right, when will you find time to do it over?»

The fairest ape, the sprightliest chimpanzee; the loveliest baboon, the most bewitching orang - outang, the most fascinating gorilla failed to touch with love's sweet pain, poor Adam's lonely heart.

You can easily double (or even triple) the recipe for the vanilla bean or the blood orang panna cotta and skip the layering.

I can't wait to make orang - ey pumpkins for Halloween!

I love these scones because they are as tender and orang - y as promised.

And cranberry and orang together... meant to be.

However, its popularity has driven a rapidly expanding industry that has been linked with deforestation, high carbon emissions, displacement of local communities and threats to endangered species such as the orang - utan, Sumatran tiger and sunbear.

Add kale, cabbage, orang segments, red onion, red bell pepper, pumpkin seeds and cilantro to a big bowl.

ORANG - UTANS normally steer clear of water.

It's true the locals call orangs the «people of the forest».

ORANG - UTANS may be perfectly adapted for swinging through trees, but new observations suggest they also spend a surprising amount of time hanging out on the ground.

But Pontzer's team thinks the irregularity of food availability in the orang - utans» habitat in south - east Asia has led the animals to evolve an especially thrifty metabolism.

They might swing in the canopy, but orang - utans expend fewer calories by mass than your average human couch potato.

But «one day we saw an adolescent orang - utan called Sif wade into deep water, hunker down and then lunge forward making simple paddling movements with her arms and legs», says Russon.

So it came as a surprise when a group of orphaned orang - utans that had been relocated to Kaja Island in Borneo started to get wet for all sorts of reasons.

With their long, strong arms and short bowed legs, it's easy to see why orang - utans are considered the most arboreal of all great apes.

She says orphaning may have made this particular group of orang - utans more independent, which in turn could have spurred their remarkable innovation.

But there are also lively accounts of people and places, politics and potentates, not to mention a poignant tale of life with an orphaned orang - utan, detailed instructions to his sister on choosing him a new assistant, and a letter thanking his mother for sending bacon («turned out more eatable than I expected»).

Chimps, orang - utans and gorillas recognise themselves in a mirror and so pass this test.

PEOPLE who work with orang - utans are regularly struck by their uncanny similarity to humans.

So it was quite surreal to find myself, last June, in the foyer of the Queen Elizabeth concert hall in London, in a group of 700 people, discussing the cultural lives of orang - utans, meerkats and fish.

In the wild, orang - utans live and die in...

As Elaine Morgan points out on page 26, orang - utans are in many respects closer to us than chimps.

Is it a case of convergent evolution, with orangs and humans independently evolving similar adaptations?

And the touching scene when Darwin meets Jenny the orang - utan — the first time he'd come face to face with a great ape — is beautifully executed, brilliantly capturing the humanity of our fellow apes.

These diseases would endanger the already - threatened wild population if the orang utans were released back into their native forests of Indonesia and Malaysia.

With only around 27 000 wild apes left in scattered patches of forest on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, the orang - utan is vulnerable to extinction.

Unlike chimpanzees and gorillas, domesticated orang - utans can be returned to the wild because they are solitary animals and do not face problems integrating back into a social group.

To date, 500 orangs from around the world have passed through the five rehabilitation centres in Indonesia and Malaysia, but these can not cope with any more animals, says Leiman.

The programme featured an orang - utan called Hsiao Li, which was portrayed as an ideal companion.

A separate group of 30 orang - utans have been sent from Taiwan to a rehabilitation centre at Wanariset in Indonesia.

HUNDREDS of pet orang - utans that are being discarded by wealthy Taiwanese families may be destroyed because they can not be returned to the wild.

According to Leiman, an estimated 1000 young orang - utans were illegally imported into Taiwan, and were sold mainly through newspaper advertisements.

Orangutans (also spelled orang utan, orang - utan, sometimes incorrectly orangutang) are two species of great apes with long arms and reddish, sometimes brown, hair.

• A touch of monkey business affected our article on technology for animals: orang - utans become sexually active at 8 years, and it is human visitors — not other apes — that juveniles enjoy poking with sticks (29 November, p 44).

However, no elephant fossils have yet been discovered in Borneo, even though fossils from other large mammals such as orang - utans have been found.

• A touch of monkey business affected our article on technology for animals: orang - utans become sexually active at 8 years,...

The Borneo rainforest is a particularly biodiverse region, and is most famously home to the only Asian great ape, the orang - utan.

The few apes left hang on in increasingly restricted habitats (orang - utans in Asia, gorillas in Africa) and are stuck with odd specialisations (knuckle walking, large brains).

«Bark represents a considerable fraction of orang - utan diets,» says Madeleine Hardus of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

He thinks it might be easier in orang - utans, which have a more fine - grained distribution.

Among the primates, cryptochrome 1 is found in the orang - utan, for example.

That's why some of the entrants in recent humanoid robot Grand Challenges have looked less human and more like a cross between an orang - utan and a wolf spider.

According to the World Resources Institute, the fires have spread into national parks, including Tanjung Puting National Park, which includes some of the last remaining habitats for orang - utans, Sumatran elephants and clouded leopards.

Group leader Brett Kennedy describes RoboSimian as a cross between an orang - utan and a wolf spider — far less humanoid than Atlas.

Elaine Morgan reminds us that orang - utans are phenotypically more similar to humans than other apes, even though chimpanzees are genetically...

There is a growing record of tool use in animals and birds, from musical «instruments» made by orang - utans to sponges used by dolphins to dislodge prey from sand.

Therefore, we are more closely related to chimps than to orangs.

Researchers used to think that taking to two legs caused the size of human brains to outstrip our primate cousins the orang - utans, gorillas and chimpanzees.

«Chimps and orang - utans, they don't feel the need for that, but once you have cooperative breeding, the evolution of language is just expected,» he says.