Sentences with phrase «from orangutans»

However, aside from the Orangutans, there are almost seven other species of primates and wild animals including elephants, rhinos, tigers, and even leopards.

Every morning, the researchers collected urine samples from the orangutans using plastic sheets they laid out near the animals» nests.

Best of all no baby cows were murdered: — RRB - And no habitats stolen from 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.

She also collects hormones from orangutan urine that falls onto mats that are strategically placed on the ground.

But the development of «neural nets» have enabled breakthroughs in machine learning, and there's hope that driverless cars will carry image identification software that can distinguish a motorcycle from a bicycle and a pedestrian from an orangutan that's just escaped from the local zoo.

Not exact matches

This time they let the show begin: there was the guy in the orangutan suit — playing a character from Thinkin» Things — beating a drum for Edmark.

For one thing, if (a) you had taken 225 million orangutans distributed roughly as the U.S. population is; if (b) 215 winners were left after 20 days; and if (c) you found that 40 came from a particular zoo in Omaha, you would be pretty sure you were onto something.

Not surprisingly, evolution since the time of Darwin has claimed that humans, orangutans, chimpanzees, and macaques evolved recently from a common ancestor.

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The near extinct Sumatran Orangutan will be forever in your debt if it is removed from the list.

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.

The cranium came from a modern human linked to the jaw of an orangutan.

Orangutan numbers on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo plummeted from 1999 to 2015, more as a result of human hunting than habitat loss, an international research team finds.

Within the last 20 million years, our ancestors split from those of orangutans.

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

Moyà - Solà suggests the ability to swing from branches probably evolved independently in chimps and orangutans, long after the two groups diverged.

No more than 800 orangutans from this newly identified species remain.

They extrapolated the overall size of the island's population from the number of orangutan nests observed throughout the species» range in Borneo.

However, many orangutans have also disappeared from more intact, forested areas, the researchers say.

Conservation geneticist Benoît Goossens of Cardiff University in Wales and his colleagues gathered DNA from the feces and hair of 200 orangutans in the Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary in Borneo.

To estimate changes in the size of the orangutan population over time, Voigt, along with Serge Wich from Liverpool John Moores University in the UK and their colleagues representing 38 international institutions, compiled field surveys conducted from 1999 to 2015.

The researchers first trained five bonobos and five orangutans to use a tool to get a fruit treat from a mechanical apparatus.

An analysis of DNA from 37 living orangutans, including two Tapanuli animals, indicated that Tapanuli and Sumatran orangutans diverged from a common ancestor around 3.4 million years ago.

Scientists often spend days tracking rare animals such as snow leopards or orangutans for samples of DNA, for instance from hair or faeces, to understand their movements, monitor their populations and propose ways to protect them.

The research team compared these sounds against the largest available database of orangutan calls collected from over 12,000 hours of observations of more than 120 orangutans from 15 wild and captive populations.

Now, new research from Wehea Forest in Borneo suggests orangutans may be more willing to hit the pavement than scientists realized.

An adolescent orangutan called Rocky could provide the key to understanding how speech in humans evolved from the time of the ancestral great apes, according to new research.

The evidence comes from a yearlong field study of Sumatran orangutans in Indonesia's Gunung Leuser National Park.

In the study, published on October 14 in PLOS ONE, Rutgers researchers found that the density of Bornean orangutans is almost two times greater in an Indonesian peat - swamp forest — just 39 miles from similar surroundings where orangutans must survive on thousands of calories less each day for most of the year.

In other words, invented behavior patterns are passed on from one generation of orangutans to the next and often vary from one group to another.

Many orangutans, forced from their forest homes, have been taken to rehabilitation centers and are now scheduled to be reintroduced into the wild.

First, they sequenced the same 50 olfactory receptor genes from two humans, two chimpanzees, two gorillas, two orangutans, and two rhesus macaques.

Orangutans» new status as cultural animals was unexpected because typically they are less social than chimps and so, researchers believed, they would have fewer chances to learn from one another.

The team positioned ground - based cameras across a 38 - square - kilometre region of the forest and succeeded in capturing the first evidence of orangutans regularly coming down from the trees.

The reason orangutans come down from the trees remains a mystery.

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.

«Borneo's orangutans are coming down from the trees; Behavior may show adaptation to habitat change.»

He has shown that orangutans can mimic sounds from human speech.

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.

She hypothesizes that the technique is passed down from one orangutan to the next.

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...

As a result, an orangutan running through the forest burns anywhere from 500 to 1000 calories less than a human sitting in front of a TV.

(It is probably much older; orangutans also laugh, and their lineage diverged from ours about 14 million years ago.)

Krützen says the Tapanuli species may be the descendants of orangutans that migrated from Asia to what is now Indonesia more than 3 million years ago.

Again, the Tapanuli orangutans differed from their Bornean and Sumatran cousins (Current Biology, doi.org/cfvk).

Finally, the team analysed 37 genomes from various orangutan populations.

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

His team studied Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), gathering data from surveys of their nests from 1999 to 2015.