Sentences with phrase «including orangutans»

[T] he trader allegedly sold various protected living wildlife including orangutans, golden cats, hedgehogs, greater slow loris, siamang, Javan gibbons, hornbills and juvenile crocodiles.

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

Whether it's weaving a safe place to rest and reflect, blowing a fine net of bubbles to trap fish, or leaping boldly into a new situation, the animals featured (including the orangutan, humpback whale, and gibbon) can teach us a lot about problem solving.

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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 species.

In particular, humans share an unfortunate «broken gene» with many other primates, including chimpanzees, orangutans, and macaques.

Unfortunately, conventional production has resulted in significant negative environmental and social impact, including large - scale deforestation that's endangering the future of orangutans.

This distinguished group includes Dian Fossey (the mountain gorillas of Rwanda), Jane Goodall (the chimpanzees of Tanzania), Birute Galdikas (the orangutans of Borneo) and Joy Adamson (the lions of Kenya).

Highlights include coming face - to - face with orangutans and watching them swing freely high above your head, hand feeding giraffes (through October), seeing elephants again (Chicago hasn't had one since 2010.)

What's more, although cannibalism has been observed in a variety of primates, including chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, several monkeys, and perhaps even gorillas, all known victims of such cannibals have been infants or juveniles.

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.

Comparisons with skeletons of 33 Sumatran and Bornean male orangutans revealed a range of differences in the skull and teeth of the Tapanuli ape, including a distinctively narrow palate and a relatively short jaw joint.

That has enabled researchers to measure mutation rates in about 40 species, including newly reported numbers for orangutans, gorillas, and green African monkeys.

The loss of habitats is the greatest threat to the endangered orangutans, and now a new study says their existence could be further jeopardized if conservation efforts don't include reintroducing these great apes into natural environments with enough high - energy food for them to survive.

«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.»

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.

A team including Michael Krützen at the University of Zurich in Switzerland compared Raya's skull and teeth with those of 33 other orangutans.

But the conversion of tropical forests to oil palm plantations has devastated a huge number of plant and animal species, including tigers, elephants, rhinos and orangutans.

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.

Wray and his colleagues sequenced this regulatory region and some flanking DNA from 74 human chromosomes as well as 32 chromosomes from seven other primates, including chimps, gorillas, and orangutans.

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 Tapanuli orangutans face many threats, including fragmented habitat, gold mining, and a planned dam.

One of the most persistent myths, however, concerns the relationship of humans to great apes, a group of primates that includes the gorilla, orangutan and chimpanzee.

They include the gorilla, chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans and gibbons.

Future studies, including data from larger sample sizes of wild - born and geographically well - defined individuals, and full Y - chromosome sequences from bonobos, gorillas and orangutans, promise to further our understanding of population histories, male - biased behaviours, mutation processes, and the functions of Y - chromosomal genes.

Scientists have recorded instances of love at first sight in hundreds of species, including elephants, orangutans, baboons, beavers, dogs, chimps, and more.

(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.)

Bagheera sends Mowgli away, back to his own kind against the latter's wishes, and the story is about his adventures getting there, including befriending the lazy bear Baloo (Bill Murray) and running afoul of both Kaa the python (Scarlett Johansson) and orangutan King Louie (Christopher Walken).

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.

Caesar's company on this mission include his wise orangutan advisor Maurice (Karin Konoval), a silent young human girl orphaned in the war (Amiah Miller), and Bad Ape (Steve Zahn), a loopy new English - speaking ape who is the lone survivor of a zoo (and the closest this dark movie has to tasteful comic relief).

They are also the least known of the great apes (which in addition to bonobos includes chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas), and remained unidentified as a separate species until 1933.

His future adventures include gorilla trekking in Rwanda, the orangutans of Borneo, and the Komodo dragons of Komodo island.

Highlights include tracking jaguars by dugout canoe in Guyana, tracking orangutan in eastern Sabah, backpacking round Japan, and being part of the first team of husky mushers to cross from Finland into Russia.

Yes some of the activities will put you over $ 20 a day (for instance the 2 day orangutan trekking was $ 70 including guide, food, and accommodation in the forest), but then if you have cheaper days at the beach, just exploring lakes etc, then it will eventually average out to under $ 20 if you budget correctly over the course of a few weeks.

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

Bali Zoo situated on 22 acres of lush landscape in the art village of Singapadu and are home to a diverse collection of more than 350 exotic animals a majority of which are indigenous to Indonesia, including rare and endangered species such as the Sumatran Elephant, Sumatran Tiger, Orangutan, Sun Bear and Binturong.

Some of the highlights pointed out by the divemasters included Bubble Coral Shrimp, Orangutan Crab, Wobbegong Shark, Pontohi Pygmy Seahorse and nudibranchs, including the genus Nembrotha.

Among the marine life seen, some of the highlights to be mentioned were nudibranchs, including the genus Phidiana, Orangutan Crab and our first Pygmy Seahorse, a Denise specimen, for the macro lovers.

Among the marine life seen, some of the highlights to be mentioned were Bubble Coral Shrimp, nudibranchs, including the genus Phidiana and Orangutan Crab for the macro lovers as well as a Hawksbill Turtle and the first Wobbegong Shark of the trip.

Some of the macro life seen on this dive included: Orangutan Crab, flatworms, blennies, Hydroid Crab and also the first specimen of the endemic Raja Ampat Epaulette Shark, also known as the Walking Shark.

Some of the macro life seen on this dive included: Orangutan Crab, flatworms, blennies, Hydroid Crab and also an Electric Clam!

Primates featured in the exhibit include, orangutans, patas monkeys, howler monkeys and many more.

These items will be enhanced by a loan of Warhol's 1983 silkscreen series «Endangered Species,» including images of a tiger, a butterfly, a zebra, an orangutan, a rhinoceros, a ram, an elephant, a frog, a panda and an eagle.

The animals featured in the digital design include a whale, orangutan, and elephant with parts of their body exposed underneath a 3D - printer attempting to rebuild the tendons and tissue.

Kalimantan hosts 40 globally threatened mammals including the Bornean orangutan and the Borneo pygmy elephant within areas earmarked for plantations, researchers said.

Authorities in northern Sumatra have arrested a man who allegedly was trafficking in wildlife, including this young orangutan, using Facebook and text messages to connect with buyers.

In contrast, RED would be more effective in terms of its conservation impact if payments were extended to all remaining carbon - rich tropical forests, including lowland peat swamp forests, the preferred habitat for dense populations of orangutans, and if the construction of new roads was halted.

Project revenues support science institutions, including the world - famous Orangutan Foundation International.

Most of Malaysia's forest loss occurred in its densest forests, those with tree cover exceeding 50 percent, which generally store the most carbon and are richest with wildlife, including endangered orangutans, pygmy elephants, Sumatran rhinos, and clouded leopards.

Proposed Plantations Home to Many Threatened Species The report points out that some 40 globally threatened mammal species are found within the areas due to be deforested for palm oil, including the Bornean orangutan and the Borneo pygmy elephant.

Without consumer support for sustainable palm oil, including paying the slight premium that it fetches, the whole thing could come crumbling down, with potentially devastating consequences for the biodiversity of Borneo (where the majority of palm oil is produced) and the orangutan in particular, as well as climate change due to increasing carbon emissions when carbon - storing rainforest is turned into oil palm plantation.