Sentences with phrase «by orang»
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.
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They might swing in the canopy, but orang - utans expend fewer calories by mass than your average human couch potato.
PEOPLE who work with orang - utans are regularly struck by their uncanny similarity to humans.
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.
By using genetic analysis to assess a subset of historical reintroductions into Tanjung Puting National Park, Indonesia, they found that orang - utans from a non-native and genetically distinct subspecies were unwittingly released and have since hybridized with the Park's wild population.
More than 1,500 orphaned and displaced orang - utans are currently awaiting release from centres on Borneo and Sumatra, which missed a deadline set forth by the Indonesian government to reintroduce all their orang - utans by the end of 2015.
They lack the long, strong fingers used by chimps and gorillas for knucklewalking, and the elongation of the hand found in the highly arboreal gibbons and orang - utans.
The choices made by retailers and manufacturers of palm oil have a direct impact on the habitat of endangered species such as the orang - utan, Sumatran tiger and Asian elephant.»
It found that the number of orang - utans on Sumatra island in Indonesia has fallen by 14 per cent since 2004 to only 6,600 animals.