Sentences with phrase «by orangutans»

Among nonhuman primates, chimpanzees have the highest, followed by orangutans and then gorillas and some monkeys.

Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted at six different locations in Borneo and Sumatra, Carel van Schaik of Duke University and his colleagues examined 36 behaviors performed by orangutans.

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

So, to recap, human workers at a zoo are now taking orders from orangutans on an app that was designed for them by other human workers.

«There would, however, be a method by which, if the orangutan and others were of the human species, the crudest observers could assure themselves of it even by demonstration; but since a single generation would not suffice for this experiment, it must be considered impracticable, because it would be necessary for what is only an hypothesis to be already proved true before the experiment that was to prove it true could be tried innocently.»

Gallup's findings have been replicated by others and extended to include orangutans.

In 2017, The New York Times reported that the Bornean orangutan's population had declined by more than 80 percent in the last 75 years largely because of habitat loss.

Turner briefly covers the use of multiple tools by other animals — humans, chimpanzees, orangutans, and capuchin monkeys — and notes that only the New Caledonian crows and humans are known to make hooked tools.

Over those 16 years, Borneo's orangutan population declined by about 148,500 individuals.

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

COUNT DOWN From 1999 to 2015, numbers of orangutans on the island of Borneo declined by nearly 150,000 individuals, a new study estimates.

Half of the orangutans on the vast Southeast Asian island died between 1999 and 2015 as a result of hunting or habitat destruction by oil palm and other industries, a new study found.

By 2015, they report, about half of the orangutans estimated to live on Borneo in 1999 were found in areas in which resource use has since caused significant changes to the environment.

By examining bits of DNA called microsatellites, which mutate rapidly, Goossens was able to trace individual genetic differences back to a common ancestor and estimate the size of the orangutan population at different times in the past.

Tapanuli orangutans live on the brink of extinction due to road construction, illegal forest clearing and killings by villagers and hunters, the scientists say.

Curious to see if orangutan researchers could come up with a list of behaviors similar to that compiled by chimpanzee researchers, van Schaik invited his colleagues to a 3 - day meeting to compare notes.

«Considering that most of the critically endangered orangutan's habitat is disturbed by human activities, understanding the habitat elements required to ensure orangutan survival in degraded forests is key for their long - term survival,» added Marc Ancrenaz of HUTAN / Borneo Futures, a core project partner.

The results of this orangutan study contribute to a larger Bornean biodiversity mapping mission co-led by Carnegie and the South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP).

They found that orangutans preferentially selected certain canopy attributes within forests that had been disturbed or fragmented by human activity.

«Such considerations are likely to become increasingly important as orangutan habitat continues to be lost and damaged across Borneo and Sumatra, including by the dreadful forest fires currently blighting the region.»

Bornean orangutans living in forests impacted by human commerce seek areas of denser canopy enclosure, taller trees, and sections with trees of uniform height, according to new research from Carnegie's Andrew Davies and Greg Asner published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Skeletal and genetic evidence puts these apes on a separate evolutionary trajectory from other orangutans in Sumatra (Pongo abelii) and Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), says a team led by evolutionary anthropologist Michael Krützen of the University of...

He climbs up the tree part way, the mother orangutan with the tiny little baby climbs down, sits by Steve holding onto her baby.

The species is threatened by hunting and poaching, and forest loss due to farming and mining exploration, says Matthew Nowak at the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme.

Orangutans were next, followed by gorillas, with the chimpanzees and human lineages diverging from each other last.

But by 2015 they only saw 10 nests per kilometre, so the team says the Bornean orangutan population fell from 300,000 to 150,000 over the 16 - year period (Current Biology, doi.org/gcx4p2).

But she warns that, by itself, «the new species of orangutan is not so exciting» to Batang Toru residents.

Alexander Nater, a co-author then at UZH, and the team concluded that by 3.4 million years ago, orangutans in northern Sumatra had split from those in southern Sumatra and Borneo.

To study how these two types of males fare reproductively, a research team led by Graham L. Banes and Linda Vigilant of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology followed the male orangutans of Tanjung Puting National Park for eight years.

«When we looked at gene expression, we found fairly small changes in 65 million years of the macaque, orangutan, and chimpanzee evolution,» said study author Yoav Gilad, PhD, assistant professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, «followed by rapid change, along the five million years of the human lineage, that was concentrated on these specific groups of genes.

By analyzing the skulls of male gorillas and orangutans, scientists are learning about the social structures created by our extinct hominin relativeBy analyzing the skulls of male gorillas and orangutans, scientists are learning about the social structures created by our extinct hominin relativeby our extinct hominin relatives.

What was more sobering was to discover that Nestle is destroying the orangutan habitat by their harvesting of palm oil found in their candies.

An orangutan at the Barcelona Zoo may be separated by glass from his human visitor, but that can't stop them from...

The Orangutans are our primal cousins and we need to defend them by NOT buying ANYTHING at all from the countries involved.

† In addition, by sourcing our MCT oil from coconuts, we prevent the deforestation of palm forests — a natural habitat for endangered orangutans.

By comparing the physical properties of orangutans» teeth and food with those of other primates, scientists may someday be able to tease out the diets of our ancestors, Vogel said.

Orangutans in Borneo can survive potential starvation by using their body fat and muscles as energy until a bounty of food is available, researchers find, adding that the results may someday shed light on the eating habits of our earliest ancestors.

(In case viewers aren't moved enough by this grievous episode, Amiel includes a wrenching subplot of an orangutan taken from the wild and confined in a European zoo.)

It's the latest directorial offering by maverick's maverick, Leos Carax, whose previous film Holy Motors saw the actor Denis Lavant eating flowers, doing motion - capture martial arts, being serenaded by Kylie Minogue and marrying an orangutan.

Spirited away to the good doctor's remote wind - blown manor on the English coast (a place surrounded, of course, by roving packs of mad dogs), Jane makes the acquaintance of an orangutan butler named Link and guinea chimps named Imp and Voodoo.

As the current pulls them further from home, the quartet runs into the best antagonists of the series to date — a marauding band of pirates led by an especially good prehistoric orangutan named Captain Gutt (voiced by Peter Dinklage) and his sabretooth tiger first mate Shira (voiced by Jennifer Lopez).

The battle in a tropical jungle orchestrated by a new game - maker (Philip Seymour Hoffman) includes a vivid assortment of characters, and a series of diabolical plagues: poison fog, killer orangutans, and a rain of blood.

The next stop on this episodic journey is the realm of monkeys, whose temple ruins are ruled by King Louie (Christopher Walken), who in keeping with the film's scale is a massive orangutan.

Leo is deposited on a mysterious planet that is ruled by the highly evolved variations of three primate species: ape, chimpanzee, and orangutan.

By the time Caesar and his band of fellow travelers locate the Colonel's armed compound near the California - Nevada border, they've picked up two more sidekicks: a former zoo chimp (Steve Zahn, making his motion - capture debut) whose years spent hiding out in isolation have left him a little touched in the head and a human child (Amiah Miller), a mute orphan who's been adopted by the compassionate orangutan Maurice (Karin KonovalBy the time Caesar and his band of fellow travelers locate the Colonel's armed compound near the California - Nevada border, they've picked up two more sidekicks: a former zoo chimp (Steve Zahn, making his motion - capture debut) whose years spent hiding out in isolation have left him a little touched in the head and a human child (Amiah Miller), a mute orphan who's been adopted by the compassionate orangutan Maurice (Karin Konovalby the compassionate orangutan Maurice (Karin Konoval).

While both species are considered endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the new study deals with only Bornean orangutans living in Kalimantan.

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.

GreaterGood.org supports the Sumatran Orangutan Society to save orangutans that have been kept illegally as pets, or who are stranded in farmlands, by rehabilitating -LSB-...]

Tests conducted by the University of Michigan concluded that while a dog's memory lasts no more than 5 minutes, a cat's can last as long as 16 hours — exceeding even that of monkeys and orangutans.

While it is not a new phenomenon for zoo animals to be poked and prodded by veterinarians, this Orangutan is remarkable for two reasons - he participates in these medical procedures voluntarily and he was taught to do so.