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According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the Sumatran orangutan is on the critically endangered list. This distinction means that the species faces an extremely high ...
Orangutan researcher Birutė Galdikas presenting her book about the apes. Orangutans were known to the native people of Sumatra and Borneo for millennia. The apes are known as maias in Sarawak and mawas in other parts of Borneo and in Sumatra. [13] While some communities hunted them for food and decoration, others placed taboos on such practices.
An orangutan sanctuary was set up here by a Swiss organisation in the 1970s to attempt to rehabilitate orangutans captured from the logging industry. The rangers were trained to teach the orangutans vital jungle skills to enable them to reintegrate into the forest, and provided additional supplementary food from a feeding platform.
An orangutan peeling a banana with its hand and foot. The Bornean orangutan diet is composed of over 400 types of food, including wild figs, durians (Durio zibethinus and D. graveolens), [29] leaves, seeds, bird eggs, flowers, sap, vines, [30] honey, fungi, spider webs, [30] insects, and, to a lesser extent than the Sumatran orangutan, bark.
The orangutan turned the big 4-7 recently at the Indianapolis Zoo in Indianapolis, Indiana and he did so in style, chomping down on a delicious birthday cake pop. But the pop was just the first ...
CBS News shared some interesting news about an orangutan named Rakus who used a specific plant to treat a wound. The video was shared on Saturday, May 4th and it has people talking.
A baby orangutan has been rescued and is “on the road to recovery” after he was kept in a “tiny cage" amid “unthinkable” conditions for six months. In an Instagram post on Jan. 8, The ...
Achaeus japonicus, sometimes known as the orang-utan crab, [2] [3] is a crab of the family Inachidae (spider crabs or decorator crabs) which can be observed in tropical waters of the central Indo-Pacific.