Sentences with phrase «orangutan nests»

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

Not exact matches

Our genome is nearly identical to the chimpanzee genome, a little less identical to the gorilla genome, a little less identical to the orangutan genome, and so on — and this correspondence is present in ways that are not needed for function (such as the location of shared genetic defects, the order of genes on chromosomes, and on and on).

And we may suspect that Rousseau's claim that the experiment could not be «tried innocently» unless it were known in advance that orangutans were themselves human may be less sincere than his playful willingness to contemplate — in the name, of course, of research — acts of bestiality that would deny any distinct place in the creation to humanity.

«There would, however, be a method by which, if the orangutan and others were of the human species, the crudest observers could assure themselves of it even by demonstration; but since a single generation would not suffice for this experiment, it must be considered impracticable, because it would be necessary for what is only an hypothesis to be already proved true before the experiment that was to prove it true could be tried innocently.»

SRCOG — Susan D. Suarez and Gordon G. Gallup, Jr. «Self - Recognition in Chimps and Orangutans, but Not Gorillas.»

Not surprisingly, evolution since the time of Darwin has claimed that humans, orangutans, chimpanzees, and macaques evolved recently from a common ancestor.

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The palm fruit oil we source is not linked to the destruction of old growth rain forests, the release of greenhouse gases, the displacement of native people, or the extinction of orangutans or Sumatran tigers (which only live in Borneo and Sumatra in Indonesia).

Highlights include coming face - to - face with orangutans and watching them swing freely high above your head, hand feeding giraffes (through October), seeing elephants again (Chicago hasn't had one since 2010.)

You could take your baby to the zoo, but don't be surprised if he falls fast asleep — or favors the water fountain over the orangutans.

Orangutans on two legs bolster the notion that humans did not have to crawl before they could walk

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

Based on predicted future losses of forest cover and the assumption that orangutans ultimately can not survive outside forest areas, the researchers predict that over 45,000 more orangutans will be lost over the next 35 years.

«Orangutans are flexible and can survive to some extent in a mosaic of forests, plantations, and logged forest, but only when they are not killed,» Wich says.

A functional vomeronasal organ is present innew - world monkeys but not in chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, ourclosest relatives.

They can't compete with the orangutans, who are really cute, these guys are really hideous... They've got massive noses, really ugly willies, and they're full of farts.

But that's not quite the way it is in more polygamous animal species such as orangutans, nor was it that way, say many evolutionary biologists, among our own ancestors.

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.

«This work not only helps us understand why orangutan abundance varies between sites, but also suggests a mechanism through which forest degradation may reduce the number of orangutans that can be supported in an area because of the quality of foods available,» said Harrison, managing director of the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project and an honorary visiting fellow at the University of Lorangutan abundance varies between sites, but also suggests a mechanism through which forest degradation may reduce the number of orangutans that can be supported in an area because of the quality of foods available,» said Harrison, managing director of the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project and an honorary visiting fellow at the University of LOrangutan Tropical Peatland Project and an honorary visiting fellow at the University of Leicester.

«We do not know how long this may take, but protecting Wehea Forest and Borneo's remaining forests is vital to the long term survival of the orangutans,» concluded Loken.

«Endangered orangutans face a new threat: Study says some habitats may not offer enough high - energy food.»

This research helps to reveal how orangutans can adapt to their changing landscape; however, this does not suggest they can just walk to new territory if their habitat is destroyed.

The loss of habitats is the greatest threat to the endangered orangutans, and now a new study says their existence could be further jeopardized if conservation efforts don't include reintroducing these great apes into natural environments with enough high - energy food for them to survive.

Female orangutans are not normally aggressive.

Fragaszy cautions that Gruber cites only one study that discusses orangutans developing stick skills in the wild — and she says that work isn't conclusive about when orangutans begin experimenting.

Orangutans in one area use tools, for example, whereas others don't.

The ranger who works with the orangutans always said, «Do not go anywhere near the orangutans and their territory.»

So these are the main ones, and they may sound rather simple to you, but orangutans elsewhere can't do the job.

That was simple: An octopus doesn't much resemble an orangutan, so they are correctly not classified together.

His team studied Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), gathering data from surveys of their nests from 1999 to 2015.

But by 2015 they only saw 10 nests per kilometre, so the team says the Bornean orangutan population fell from 300,000 to 150,000 over the 16 - year period (Current Biology, doi.org/gcx4p2).

But she warns that, by itself, «the new species of orangutan is not so exciting» to Batang Toru residents.

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.

But the best habitat — about 7 square kilometers of low - land forest — is not protected, and villagers sometimes kill orangutans that raid gardens.

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

It doesn't exist in our ape relatives the chimpanzee or orangutan, but there is some evidence it may have been there in early hominids Neanderthal and Denisovan.

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

An orangutan at the Barcelona Zoo may be separated by glass from his human visitor, but that can't stop them from...

The Orangutans are our primal cousins and we need to defend them by NOT buying ANYTHING at all from the countries involved.

The majority of red palm oil — the unrefined version higher in micronutrients — comes from sustainable palm farms that don't impact orangutan populations.

Consuming Onnit MCT oil isn't just good for humans, it's good for orangutans!

The orangutans are still able to get the protein they need to survive in these areas, even though the partially logged forests are not their primary habitat.

Every morning, the researchers collected urine samples from the orangutans using plastic sheets they laid out near the animals» nests.

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.

(This scaffolding is large enough to accommodate a sequence in which Darwin spends time with Jenny the orangutan at the London Zoo in 1838, three years before Annie's birth: she mimics his actions, shows human - like emotions, and provides apparent evidence for his then emerging theory — as well as a charming interlude where Darwin is young and curious and not tormented.)

(In case viewers aren't moved enough by this grievous episode, Amiel includes a wrenching subplot of an orangutan taken from the wild and confined in a European zoo.)

Only poor Alexander elevates the material, with a kind of quiet dignity that doesn't quite survive a scene in which he stumbles around screeching with an orangutan on his head; the moments he shares with his boys are free of histrionics and false notes.

Her acting doesn't achieve any consistency here — she'll be running from a killer orangutan one moment and staring pacifically at a middle distance the next.

Not only is Galdikas — one of the «trimates,» along with Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall — a brilliant and persevering scientist who devoted many years to studying orangutans, she is also a wonderfully engaging and generous writer able to convey all the frustration and excitement of working in the wild.

Scientists estimate that if more than than one percent of female orangutans in a given population are killed in a year, that population will go extinct — a figure that doesn't bode well for the Kalimantan apes.