Sentences with phrase «orangutans face»

The Tapanuli orangutans face many threats, including fragmented habitat, gold mining, and a planned dam.

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

Watch the sunrise from the top of Mt Kinabalu, spot wildlife on a jungle walk, explore the Mulu caves, overnight in a traditional village, and meet an orangutan face - to - face.

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The orangutan is only one of a number of species facing extinction as a result of deforestation.

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.)

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

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

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

Spend a week exploring Sipadan and its surroundings, then head inland for two days to come face to face with the man of the forest, Borneo's orangutan.

Relegated to ever smaller fragments of forest, wild orangutans began to face starvation as their food sources were depleted, forcing them to venture into newly established oil palm plantations where they feed on the young shoots of palms, destroying the tree before it produces any oil seeds.

(07/29/2010) Many of the environmental issues facing Indonesia are embodied in the plight of the orangutan, the red ape that inhabits the islands of Borneo and Sumatra.

By 2005, the country faces the loss of all lowland forest from Sumatra, and thus the extinction of the critically endangered Sumatran orangutan, among many other species.