Sentences with phrase «orangutan findings»

Research on humans faced with scarcity echoes van Schaik's orangutan findings.

The orangutan finding, he says, suggests these fossils may indeed represent bipedal apes.

New populations of orangutans found Conservationists have found a new population of orangutans in a mountainous corner of Indonesia, a discovery that raises the total number of the endangered orangutan population by possibly thousands.

Not exact matches

For one thing, if (a) you had taken 225 million orangutans distributed roughly as the U.S. population is; if (b) 215 winners were left after 20 days; and if (c) you found that 40 came from a particular zoo in Omaha, you would be pretty sure you were onto something.

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

This large - scale deforestation is pushing many species to extinction, and findings show that if nothing changes species like the orangutan could become extinct in the wild within the next 5 - 10 years, and Sumatran tigers less than 3 years.»

Orangutan numbers on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo plummeted from 1999 to 2015, more as a result of human hunting than habitat loss, an international research team finds.

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.

«We found that chimpanzees, orangutans and gorillas do not show a significant overlap of genes under positive selection with domesticates.

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.

Someone mixed human and orangutan bones, treated them, and planted them to create Piltdown Man, a «missing link» between humans and apes found in 1912.

Only Tapanuli orangutans appear to be direct descendants of the first mainland Asian orangutan ancestors to reach Sumatra, the investigators find.

The researchers found that groups of more sociable orangutans had larger behavioral repertoires than groups of relatively solitary individuals had, supporting the theory that social contact spreads cultural behaviors.

In the study, published on October 14 in PLOS ONE, Rutgers researchers found that the density of Bornean orangutans is almost two times greater in an Indonesian peat - swamp forest — just 39 miles from similar surroundings where orangutans must survive on thousands of calories less each day for most of the year.

That's one of the surprising findings of nine primatologists who announced last January that orangutans are multicultural creatures.

Observing 25 orangutans at play, Ross found that when an orangutan sees another orangutan make an open - mouth expression, it tends to do the same in less than half a second.

The amount of time orangutans spent on the forest floor was found to be comparable to the ground - dwelling pig - tailed macaque, Macaca nemestrina, which is equally abundant in Wehea Forest.

They found that orangutans preferentially selected certain canopy attributes within forests that had been disturbed or fragmented by human activity.

Orangutans might be the king of the swingers, but primatologists in Borneo have found that the great apes spend a surprising amount of time walking on the ground.

After taking body size into account, they found that humans averaged about 400 more calories per day than chimps and bonobos — 635 calories more than gorillas and 820 calories more than orangutans.

The natural forests of Borneo and Sumatra are falling fast due largely to the explosive growth of palm oil plantations; populations of the orangutan, found only in these forests, are in sharp decline.

Researchers have found that, for their size, orangutans expend less energy than nearly every placental mammal measured.

A new orangutan species has been found in the forests of Sumatra.

«When we looked at gene expression, we found fairly small changes in 65 million years of the macaque, orangutan and chimpanzee evolution,» Gilad explains.»

They found that it would take 8.8 hours for gorillas; 7.8 hours for orangutans; 7.3 hours for chimps; and 9.3 hours for our species, H. sapiens.

A combination of genetic, anatomical, and ecological data convinced researchers that Pongo tapanuliensis, named for the Tapanuli districts where it is found, is distinct from the two accepted species of orangutan.

An international team has described a new great ape species, the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis), found in upland forests in the Batang Toru Ecosystem of North Sumatra, Indonesia.

«When we looked at gene expression, we found fairly small changes in 65 million years of the macaque, orangutan, and chimpanzee evolution,» said study author Yoav Gilad, PhD, assistant professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, «followed by rapid change, along the five million years of the human lineage, that was concentrated on these specific groups of genes.

On a data sheet of orangutan skulls from the Berlin Museum I found measurements of a late juvenile male (about equivalent in dental eruption stage to Le Moustier), about 7 years old, and took two adults at random from the same sheet.

Their findings showed that in male gorillas and orangutans, the need for larger chewing muscles alone could not explain crest formation.

What was more sobering was to discover that Nestle is destroying the orangutan habitat by their harvesting of palm oil found in their candies.

Orangutans in Borneo can survive potential starvation by using their body fat and muscles as energy until a bounty of food is available, researchers find, adding that the results may someday shed light on the eating habits of our earliest ancestors.

The findings may also speak to various low - carb, high - protein diets, because essentially weight comes down to caloric intake for these orangutans as it does us, the researchers say.

The researchers found that the levels of the dietary marker ketone spiked after the masting period, indicating that the orangutans» bodies were breaking down fat reserves for energy.

For one thing, if (a) you had taken 225 million orangutans distributed roughly as the U.S. population is; if (b) 215 winners were left after 20 days; and if (c) you found that 40 came from a particular zoo in Omaha, you would be pretty sure you were onto something.

One possible silver lining is that the study found that only a small number of people reported killing an orangutan.

With these soft corals we often find our macro like Squat lobsters both hairy and common, squat shrimps, translucent anemone shrimp, nudibranchs, orangutan crabs, hermit crabs, porcelain crabs, mantis shrimps and flatworms as well as isopods.

• 3 days and 2 nights at Sepilok and Sukau Sepilok is where the Orangutan rehabilitation centre is found and staying at the Sepilok Nature Resort you will tour the centre and watch the semi wild orangutans coming in from the open jungle to be fed.

Users will find informative island summaries of sun - kissed Bali, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Papua, Nusa Tenggara, Java and Kalimantan, the latter being home to the largest concentration of wild orangutans on the planet.

With an extensive soft coral garden hosting plenty of xenia specimens, some macro life was found: nudibranchs, like the Chromodoris and Flabellina, flatworms, Orangutan and Porcelain Crab and also the Raja Ampat Denise Pygmy Seahorse!

His latest exhibition focuses on endangered animals — orangutans, komodo dragons, spix macaws - with the colours and finish of each sculpture's materials as they are found by Nutting.

No tortoises were found on the second suspect but he was arrested after an illegally obtained orangutan was found in his possession.

Attending NGOs agreed that they would need to work with industry to find a balance that would allow the ongoing survival of orangutans in the wild.

Prime Indonesian jungle to be cleared for palm oil Their former hero recently gave a palm oil company a permit to develop land in one of the few places on earth where orangutans, tigers and bears still can be found living side - by - side — violating Indonesia's new moratorium on concessions in primary forests and peatlands.

http://news.yahoo.com/prime-indonesian-jungle-cleared-palm-oil-065556710.html Prime Indonesian jungle to be cleared for palm oil Their former hero recently gave a palm oil company a permit to develop land in one of the few places on earth where orangutans, tigers and bears still can be found living side - by - side — violating Indonesia's new moratorium on concessions in primary forests and peatlands.

Asner is also working with wildlife biologists to figure out how these stores of carbon link up with the biodiversity they contain, such as the orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) and elephants (Elephas maximus borneensis) still found in parts of Sabah.

Roscoe followed the group back to Surya's sanctuary and found the orangutan enclosure immediately.

But with the help of some motion - sensing camera traps set up on the island, researchers who had hoped to capture images of rare leopards and orangutans ended up finding something no one had expected to see and a species never before photographed — Miller's grizzled langurs.

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.

«We can't find other ways of making orangutans.»