Sentences with phrase «orangutan made»

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.

Not exact matches

Are we destroying rain forests and orangutan habitat to make a vegan butter replacement?

It makes distinctions between similar types of animals, like the gorilla, orangutan, and chimpanzee.

Turner briefly covers the use of multiple tools by other animals — humans, chimpanzees, orangutans, and capuchin monkeys — and notes that only the New Caledonian crows and humans are known to make hooked tools.

The list of probable cultural traits is not as long as that for chimpanzees, but orangutans» tendency to interact with their neighbors less than chimps do made the pattern of learning even clearer.

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.

However, while the absence of large predators may make it safer to walk on the forest floor, a more pressing influence is the rapid and unprecedented loss of Borneo's orangutan habitat.

«In the course of a year, we took the CAO aircraft and team to northern Borneo, mapped its habitats in 3 - D, combined the data with Marc's orangutan observations, and made a critically important scientific discovery that directly bears on the conservation of one of the world's most iconic ape species,» said Asner, the project's leader.

In contrast, laughing apes of all species sound more alike, with most making some type of short, noisy grunts (hear an orangutan laugh here).

Orangutans in their native forests in Indonesia don't make weaning easy to see, Wich notes.

Lastly, Barnum advertised that the mermaid was a beautiful woman, which was not true; the Mermaid was made using either papier - mâché, the tail of a fish and a torso of a baby orangutan, stitched together with the head of a monkey.

Spirited away to the good doctor's remote wind - blown manor on the English coast (a place surrounded, of course, by roving packs of mad dogs), Jane makes the acquaintance of an orangutan butler named Link and guinea chimps named Imp and Voodoo.

By the time Caesar and his band of fellow travelers locate the Colonel's armed compound near the California - Nevada border, they've picked up two more sidekicks: a former zoo chimp (Steve Zahn, making his motion - capture debut) whose years spent hiding out in isolation have left him a little touched in the head and a human child (Amiah Miller), a mute orphan who's been adopted by the compassionate orangutan Maurice (Karin Konoval).

What I'm fighting is the 350 lb orangutan about to enter the oval office's bullying, lying and abject 4th grade rhetoric in his vain attempt to make America 1950's early 60's Great Again..

It's not unlike humans to get this kind of sinus surgery, but Daniel is the first orangutan in the country to ever get this kind of surgery, making medical history.

Michael Roberts» charming text and hand - drawn illustrations tell the story of GingerNutz, an orangutan born in the wilds of Borneo who dreams of making it big in the fashion world.

Orangutans are endangered because their habitat — the rainforests of Indonesia — is being destroyed to make way for palm oil plantations.

Preserving forests might make economic sense for governments and forest dwellers, and it could also help preserve the habitats of endangered mammals such as orangutans and elephants, according to a study released this week.

RSPB highlighted their current work in forests, focusing on their international campaigns like the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project, whose on - the - ground work is making a difference to places like the Harapan and the Sabangau rainforests, on the front line of advancing wave oil palm which is driving deforestation and the corrupt conversion of forest for plantation concessions.

As much as 80 % of the orangutan's forest habitat has already been destroyed and half of their remaining habitat is slated to be destroyed to make room for new or expanding plantations.

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.

Genetically modified fish make glowing sushi, rare orangutans could be gone in weeks and more.

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

The zoo also made headlines when one of their orangutans, Sandra (pictured above), was given rights when she was declared a «non-human person» by a Buenos Aires court.

Not only are the plantations such a severe threat to Orangutan habitat that the animals could be the first great ape (in modern times) to go extinct, but biodiesel made from palm oil can have carbon emissions greatly higher than that of petro diesel.