Sentences with phrase «orangutans at»

Harrison Ford with baby orangutans at a rehabilitation center for orphaned apes in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan.

Whether you want to explore or hike active volcanos, get wet and wild in the jungle, cuddle baby orangutans at the Bali Safari Park, Bali has lots of day trips for you and the family!

Mikkel's favorite educational experience was providing enrichment and positive reinforcement guidance to orangutans at Jungle Island in Miami.

Although the orangutans at the Great Ape Trust spend their days running, climbing up trees, and playing with their friends, they expended about 30 % less energy than expected for their mass, Pontzer's team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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.

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

(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.)

The one genuinely interesting aspect of «Creation» is a flashback involving a young Darwin and his study of Jenny, an orangutan at the London Zoo.

Not exact matches

Edmark's precocious cat, its clever cow, and its irresistible orangutan had won the hearts, Vetras says, of «the tweed - jacketed, Volvo - driving 130 - plus - IQ set» who shopped at specialty chains.

«The year before last I was in Indonesia looking at the Borneo rainforest and orangutans and stuff.»

So, to recap, human workers at a zoo are now taking orders from orangutans on an app that was designed for them by other human workers.

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.

A few of those chromosomes have stayed intact — with their genes in the same order — over the past 105 million years, at least in orangutans and humans.

«Orangutan killing is likely the number one threat to orangutans,» says study coauthor Serge Wich, a biologist and ecologist at Liverpool John Moores University in England.

The first time Jessica Cantlon met Kumang at the Seneca Park Zoo, the matriarch orangutan regurgitated her previous meal right into Cantlon's face.

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.

After testing the technology on a tower built at one - fifth scale (compared with a normal turbine tower), Scottish Enterprise is now looking for partners to turn the prototype Orangutan into a climbing machine that can be commercialized.

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.

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

At the other extreme are solitary species, like the orangutans.

«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.

On a visit to the London Zoo, he gave mirrors to a pair of orangutans and watched them grimace and pucker their lips as they stared at their reflections.

Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted at six different locations in Borneo and Sumatra, Carel van Schaik of Duke University and his colleagues examined 36 behaviors performed by orangutans.

«Our combination of field and airborne data on orangutans and their habitat was key to understanding how they move through and use disturbed forests in Borneo,» said first author Davies, a postdoc at Carnegie's Department of Global Ecology.

Poached ivory fetches at least $ 165 million a year in Asia while our closest living relatives — great apes like chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans — are being kidnapped from the wild and sold to private collectors.

A team including Michael Krützen at the University of Zurich in Switzerland compared Raya's skull and teeth with those of 33 other orangutans.

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 genetic results also offer a glimpse at orangutan history.

The species is threatened by hunting and poaching, and forest loss due to farming and mining exploration, says Matthew Nowak at the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme.

Based on population numbers, Tapanuli orangutans may be the most endangered great apes, says Vincent Nijman at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

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

Alexander Nater, a co-author then at UZH, and the team concluded that by 3.4 million years ago, orangutans in northern Sumatra had split from those in southern Sumatra and Borneo.

So zoologist Marina Davila Ross of the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom and colleagues recorded the laughs of young gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and one siamang at zoos and sanctuaries.

Co-author Maja Mattle - Greminger at UZH and colleagues sequenced the genomes of one captive Tapanuli orangutan and 15 from Sumatra and Borneo.

Humans arrived at about the same time, clearing forests and presumably hunting orangutans.

This genomic data has been generated at the CNAG - CRG and it is considered as the most comprehensive study of the genome of wild orangutans carried out so far.

Extensive computer modelling aimed at reconstructing the population history of orangutans, revealed that the Batang Toru population appears to have been isolated from all other Sumatran populations for at least 10 - 20» 000 years, after which the low levels of influx of males from the northern populations had ceased.

The genomes of thirty - seven wild orangutans have been studied at the CNAG - CRG.

«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.

Jensen - Seaman, who is now at the University of Chicago, reported that chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans lack the 120/240 polymorphism, but the repeat is present in great apes.

Modern human basal length grows at 0.052 mm / yr after the late - juvenile stage; so using Cuozzo's logic the two adult orangutans must have been 596 and 788 years old, respectively (plus the 7 years to reach the age of the juvenile skull).

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.

Ibu Maryanti will presented her paper, OFI s Holistic Environmental Enrichment Program, describing their enrichment program for over 330 orangutans in a rehabilitation center on the island of Borneo at the 10th ICEE in Portland, Oregon.

I give my take on the controversial oil, drawing on randomized controlled trials and personal feelings about orangutans to arrive at my conclusion.

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

A future study could look at how the orangutans» ratio of protein to carbohydrate intake changed over time and how it affected their metabolism, she said.

Scientists have recorded instances of love at first sight in hundreds of species, including elephants, orangutans, baboons, beavers, dogs, chimps, and more.

Faced with awe - inspiring occult evidence of extraterrestrial consciousness, pesky humans might actually — aw, for chrissakes — paw at it like a bunch of orangutans!

This film documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them — saving endangered species one life at a time.

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.