Sentences with phrase «on orang»

I discovered that there is less popular culture on orang - utans as compared to chimpanzees and gorillas.

Not exact matches

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 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»).

As Elaine Morgan points out on page 26, orang - utans are in many respects closer to us than chimps.

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 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,...

The few apes left hang on in increasingly restricted habitats (orang - utans in Asia, gorillas in Africa) and are stuck with odd specialisations (knuckle walking, large brains).

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

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.

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.

I love that orang - y shade on you btw, so pretty!

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.

It will focus on the four great apes — gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orang - utans.

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.

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.»

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.