Sentences with phrase «of orangutans»

The orangutan populations followed in this study are two of the largest remaining populations of orangutans in Borneo.

(CNN)-- Conservationists have found a new population of orangutans in a steep, mountainous corner of Indonesia — a discovery that significantly adds to the number of the endangered red - haired primates.

Researchers have identified a new species of orangutan in an isolated forest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

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

An isolated group of orangutans in Sumatra is the first new great ape species described since the 1920s, and could be the most critically endangered.

Other long - term studies of orangutans similarly have never reported such violent female attacks.

Hopefully you already are aware of the plight of orangutans in Borneo and Sumatra as logging and palm oil plantations continue to rapidly destroy their habitat.

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.

Over a 16 - year period, about half of the orangutans living on the island of Borneo were lost as a result of changes in land cover.

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

We've written about the connections between deforestation, the possible extinction of the orangutan, and the expansion of plantation - based palm oil production a number of times.

A comparison of orangutan social groups shows that the animals have at least some hallmarks of what in humans is commonly called culture.

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.

«So, in addition to protection of forests, we need to focus on addressing the underlying causes of orangutan killing.

Nighttime photographs of orangutan movements over 2.5 years (see above) revealed that the shaggy apes frequently hike through pristine and regrowing forests, cleared areas, and even along deserted logging roads.

Matt Adam Williams is a naturalist and wildlife photographer and Communications Manager of the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project.

A report on the threat posed to the last remaining populations of orangutans by illegal logging and the conversion of forest land to oil palm plantations..

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.

As he tears into the package, the viewer, but not the office worker, notices something is amiss — what should be chocolate has been replaced by the dark hairy finger of an orangutan.

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The Federal Criminal Court of Appeals in Buenos Aires heard a petition for habeas corpus by the Association of Officials and Lawyers for Animal Rights (AFADA) challenging the detention and confinement of an orangutan named Sandra.

Greenpeace considers this a major victory: two months ago, the environmental group targeted Nestle's use of palm oil with a purposely unsettling video that compared eating Kit - Kat bars to snacking on the bloodied appendages of orangutans.

Along with recognizing some of the world's best photographers, the contest also has an «open» category that takes submissions from amateurs (like this shot of an orangutan sheltering himself with banana leaf) around the world.

Australia's largest dairy is using a palm oil product — linked to the deforestation of orangutan habitat and biosecurity scares — in cow feed while promoting its product as based on Tasmania's pristine pastures.

This lead to a fanciful arrangement of suction pipe, ropes, anchors, buoys and a wire cage large enough for a family of orangutans.

The race is on to protect the 50 percent of orangutans that live outside of protected areas and find themselves living in the path of industry, machines and chain saws.

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

It will include features on the Botanical Gardens, the release of orangutans into the wild, and the cloning debate, plus Dr. Know - it - all will be standing by to answer viewers» science questions.

GREAT APE In Disney's new The Jungle Book, King Louie is a Gigantopithecus, an ancient relative of orangutans.

The new figures are based on the most extensive survey to date, using ground and air monitoring of orangutans» tree nests.

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.

In the first, two of the bonobos and two of the orangutans faced a similar challenge but with only juice as a reward — to discount for the possibility that the apes had taken the right tool previously simply because they were currently hungry.

The name P. tapanuliensis refers to three north Sumatran districts — North, Central and South Tapanuli — where no more than 800 of these orangutans inhabit several forested areas.

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.

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.

Reproductive success, Vogel said, is linked to the nutritional quality of orangutan diets and can have an impact on the density of the population.

Davies and Asner employed the Carnegie Airborne Observatory's Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensor, which uses reflected laser light to image vegetation in 3 - D, and combined it with three years of highly detailed field observations of orangutans by co-authors Marc Ancrenaz and Felicity Oram.

The region's Wehea Forest is a known biodiversity hotspot for primates, including the Bornean orangutan subspecies, Pongo pygmaeus morio, the least studied of orangutan subspecies.

On a visit to the London Zoo, he gave mirrors to a pair of orangutans and watched them grimace and pucker their lips as they stared at their reflections.

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).

Because of orangutans» size, they require strong branches to move laterally through the forest canopy.

Deforestation has caused a large number of orangutan orphans, many of whom come from both sides of the Alas River, to wind up at the Batu Mbelin shelter in northern Sumatra.

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.

In the 1930s there were reports of orangutans in Tapanuli, in the Batang Toru area of Sumatra, but they were never investigated.

What's more, a proposed hydroelectric project threatens 8 per cent of the orangutans» habitat.

It is well documented that the giant ape Gigantopithecus was huge — but beyond this fact, there are many uncertainties regarding the extinct ancestor of the orangutan.