Sentences with phrase «orangutans play»

Like many large vertebrates, orangutans play a particularly critical role in maintaining healthy ecosystem function.

When orangutans play with each other, they sometimes open their mouths in the ape equivalent of a smile.

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This time they let the show begin: there was the guy in the orangutan suit — playing a character from Thinkin» Things — beating a drum for Edmark.

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.

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.

By rescuing individual animals belonging to species like the orangutan and reintroducing them into protected areas in the wild, our work also plays a role in the conservation of the species as a whole.