Sentences with phrase «orangutan called»

In 2013, a Tapanuli orangutan called Raya died of his wounds after a conflict with locals.

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.

In that study, published in January 2015, it was reported that a female orangutan called Tilda at Cologne Zoo, in Germany, was able to make sounds comparable to human consonant and vowel - like calls at the same rhythm and pace as human speech.

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.

The palm plantations are in direct conflict with the jungles the orangutan calls home.

Not exact matches

Perhaps, she's likely thinking, it's time to call in the orangutan.

However, 98 % of our DNA is identical to that of a subspecies of chimpanzee called the «bonobo», next in relation is the other subspecies of chimpanzee (the better know «common chimpanzee»), then gorillas, then orangutans, then the lesser apes «gibbons.»

Eating Season is what I like to call the 3 - month extravaganza that begins at Halloween when Americans consume even more of their most delicious and comforting candies, bulldozes through Thanksgiving, when we eat all our feelings about being with family (or our country having elected a nationalist orangutan to the White House around this time last year), continues through the December holidays, and ends with the Super Bowl when we can no longer actually chew and consume all our favorite foods in mushy, dip form.

By examining bits of DNA called microsatellites, which mutate rapidly, Goossens was able to trace individual genetic differences back to a common ancestor and estimate the size of the orangutan population at different times in the past.

ITI Energy, part of Scottish Enterprise, the country's main economic agency, has invested about $ 3.2 million in a special wind turbine access system called «Orangutan».

Nicholas Mulcahy and Josep Call of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig tested whether our closest great ape relative — the bonobo — and our most distant — the orangutan — share our ability to plan for the future.

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

Five wild orangutans in Borneo — nicknamed Sam, Henk, Rambo, Kondor, and Sultan — have learned to create a new kind of distress signal, using leaves to lower the pitch of their common warning call, known as a kiss - squeak.

Plus Tapanuli males» long calls are 21 seconds longer than Bornean males», and they pitch their roars at a higher maximum frequency than Sumatran orangutans do.

The so - called run - of - river design would not store much water behind a dam, but would require digging a long tunnel in an area that holds the densest population of orangutans.

The Denver Zoo also calls upon Dr. Emily to perform repairs on the beak on hornbills and toucans, as well as caring for kangaroos, wild dogs, polar bears, grizzlies and orangutans, to name but a few of the many species.

Not too far from the boundary of the forest camp, a male orangutan crashed through the trees and then bellowed a long call that carried for over a mile.

But whatever it's called, it's clear that palm oil production is leading to massive deforestation due to carbon - emitting activities like slashing and burning the forest to make way for palm plantations, as well as habitat loss for a wide variety of species like orangutans, tigers, rhinoceros, and elephants.

It's even been called an «eco-nightmare» because of deforestation that's occurred leaving orangutans and birds without their natural habitat.