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Dr. Splitz/Splitzy is an orangutan made sentient by an alien race in the science fiction cartoon Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys. In Nickelodeon's The Wild Thornberrys, the character Donnie was raised by orangutans for a while after his parents were killed by poachers, as revealed in "The Origin of Donnie".
Orangutans may be killed for the bushmeat trade [125] and bones are secretly sold in souvenir shops in several cities in Indonesian Borneo. [126] Conflicts between locals and orangutans also pose a threat. Orangutans that have lost their homes often raid agricultural areas and end up being killed by villagers. [127]
Similar to Orangutan Island, the show follows multiple baby orangutans who are orphaned after their mothers were killed, often due to their encounters with humans. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The babies are rescued and raised together at the "school" in hopes that they can become independent and be reintroduced into their natural habitat. [ 5 ]
By: INSIDE EDITION This newborn orangutan lost the will to live after his mother was taken down with a machete in Borneo's rainforest and he was sold to a local farmer. But now the youngster ...
The orangutan taxon is now known to be paraphyletic to other (African) hominids. The orangutans are the only surviving species of the subfamily Ponginae , which genetically diverged from the other hominids ( gorillas , chimpanzees and humans ) between 19.3 and 15.7 million years ago.
A wounded orangutan was seen self-medicating with a plant known to relieve pain. It's the first time an animal has been observed applying medicine to a skin injury.
Someone captured the adorable moment on camera, and uploaded the video to YouTube on Monday. Since posting, the video has been viewed over 3 million times. Unsurprisingly, Zaleski said it was one ...
The Great Ape Project (GAP), founded in 1993, is an international organization of primatologists, anthropologists, ethicists, and others who advocate a United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Great Apes that would confer basic legal rights on non-human great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans.