Sentences with phrase «of orang»

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.

One of the orang moms swoops down to the ground as if on an invisible slide, picks up a stick, and fishes around inside a tree trunk until she snares edibles that she coaxes up and eats.

Advances in morphological and genetic studies have since revealed two species of orang - utan, however, on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra.

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

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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»).

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.

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.

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

While their findings and recommendations apply to a broad range of endangered mammals, Banes is especially adamant that Bornean orang - utan subspecies be kept apart.

As orang - utan subspecies are thought to have diverged around 176,000 years ago, with marked differentiation over the last 80,000 years, the researchers highlight the potential for negative effects on the viability of populations already under threat.

The Bornean orang - utan is further subdivided into three distinct, geographically and reproductively isolated subspecies, which last shared a common ancestor in the Pleistocene and have differentiated substantially over tens of thousands of years.

Mike Tomasello of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and others have compiled a list of gestures observed in monkeys, gibbons, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orang - utans, which reveals that gesticulation plays a large role in their communication (Gesture, vol 5, p...

«There is no definitive evidence of outbreeding depression among Bornean orang - utans,» says Banes, «but our findings are enough to cause serious alarm.»

As their intake of displaced orang - utans increases, and as suitable habitat for reintroductions declines, there have been suggestions that they hybridize Bornean orang - utan subspecies — either in isolated, «mixed» populations, or within existing wild populations.

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.

We have been bumping into plenty of turtles, cuttlefish, orang - utan crabs, shrimps, Blue spotted stingrays, blue fin trevally and schools of squid have appeared at Turtle heaven circling the top of the underwater mountain (as we like to call it) the past 2 times we visited.

Nudi branchs, pigmy seahorse and the orang hutan and porcelain crab are only a few of the many different species.

Roads connect most towns in Kalimantan and the region continues to progress; West Kalimantan is the constituency's least developed area — home to wild orang - utans, virgin rainforests and idyllic beaches, this slice of Borneo should be on every visitor's radar.

Ketapang is home to the 100,000 - hectare Gunung Palung National Park which plays host to 10 % of the world's wild orang - utan population.

Here, you'll get up close and personal with orang utan (wild man of Borneo) formerly in captivity which are now being rehabilitated before their return to the wild.

You can climb Mount Kinabalu, the highest mountain in the region, visit the largest orang utan sanctuary in the world, as well dive some of the world's best wall, reef and macro-life locations.

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.»

«When a landmark scheme created in the name of sustainability and conservation tolerates one of its member companies destroying orang - utan habitat, something is going seriously wrong,» said Tom Picken, Forest Campaign Leader at Global Witness.

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Everybody wants a piece of it, including elephants, orang - utans, rhino and the approximate 280 Sumatran tigers left in the wild.