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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.

Ah, your Borneo cruise sounds like it would be great — orangutans on the itinerary?

«Orangutans are elusive and one reason why recorded evidence of orangutans on the ground is so rare is that the presence of observers inhibits this behaviour,» said Loken.

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.

COUNT DOWN From 1999 to 2015, numbers of orangutans on the island of Borneo declined by nearly 150,000 individuals, a new study estimates.

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

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.

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.

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The Orangutan snack was a spoof on KitKat for a campaign last year against Nestle and HSBC over the two company's dealings with Indonesian palm oil producer Sinar Mas, whom Greenpeace accused of illegal deforestation.

Like, say, chomping down on an Orangutan finger like it was a candy bar.

Greenpeace considers this a major victory: two months ago, the environmental group targeted Nestle's use of palm oil with a purposely unsettling video that compared eating Kit - Kat bars to snacking on the bloodied appendages of orangutans.

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).

Many also use palm oil which is horribly cruel to orangutans and harsh on the environment too.

Australia's largest dairy is using a palm oil product — linked to the deforestation of orangutan habitat and biosecurity scares — in cow feed while promoting its product as based on Tasmania's pristine pastures.

Orangutans breast - feed offspring off and on for up to eight years.

An orangutan matched researchers» predictions about which mixed beverage he would choose based on his relative fondness for the separate ingredients.

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.

Orangutans live only on Borneo and the island of Sumatra and are endangered in both places.

Over a 16 - year period, about half of the orangutans living on the island of Borneo were lost as a result of changes in land cover.

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.

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.

«So, in addition to protection of forests, we need to focus on addressing the underlying causes of orangutan killing.

That's according to estimates reported in Current Biology on February 15 showing that more than 100,000 of the island's orangutans disappeared between 1999 and 2015.

If they are wrong, «it will be worse than Piltdown» in terms of its effect on the field, as one anonymous observer put it, referring to the 1912 hoax that combined modern human and orangutan fragments.

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.

Tapanuli orangutans live on the brink of extinction due to road construction, illegal forest clearing and killings by villagers and hunters, the scientists say.

«Orangutans: Lethal aggression between females: First report on male - female alliances in deadly fight between female individuals.»

The research team around Marzec had been following a population of Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbill) in the swamp forests of Indonesia's Mawas Reserve since 2003 and already collected over 26,000 hours of information on the adult females alone when they observed the fatal attack in July 2014.

But after three months in an orangutan rehab center in Borneo, she got to do her own tickling on half a dozen furry orange babies.

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.

In other words, invented behavior patterns are passed on from one generation of orangutans to the next and often vary from one group to another.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

On June 25 the Spanish Parliament's environmental committee approved a resolution to grant legal rights to great apes, covering chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans.

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.

«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.

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Skeletal and genetic evidence puts these apes on a separate evolutionary trajectory from other orangutans in Sumatra (Pongo abelii) and Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), says a team led by evolutionary anthropologist Michael Krützen of the University of...

After taking measurements and collecting observations on nine living primate species, including humans, Carrier concluded that the living apes with the shortest legs for their body size, like gorillas and orangutans, are those that spend the least time in trees.

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

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

Based on his studies of orangutans, primatologist Carel van Schaik of the University of Zurich has come to a very different view.

«But other data on canopy biodiversity and animal habitats, such as our work on Bornean orangutans, will also help inform decisionmakers.»

There is strong anthropogenic pressure on the Tapanuli orangutan due to conversion of pristine forest for mining, plans to build a hydro - electric dam, hunting, and general human encroachment.

We support frontline conservation programmes and tirelessly campaign on issues threatening the survival of orangutans in the wild.

«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.