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Over the past 60 years, the population of all three species has been steeply declining. [2] The current population of orangutans cannot be accurately calculated; however, it is estimated that the number of individuals remaining is: 104,000 Bornean orangutans, 14,000 Sumatran orangutans, and 800 Tapanuli orangutans. [3]
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.
The apes may employ this method of amplification to deceive the listener into believing they are larger animals. [97] In 2003, researchers from six different orangutan field sites who used the same behavioural coding scheme compared the behaviours of the animals from each site. They found each orangutan population used different tools.
An orangutan was born at a Florida theme park — and photos show the cute new addition. ... The baby born April 13 is a Bornean orangutan, a species that lives in the wild in Southeast Asia ...
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As of 2017, the Sumatran orangutan species only has approximately 13,846 remaining members in its population. [1] The World Wide Fund for Nature is thus carrying out attempts to protect the species by allowing them to reproduce in the safe environment of captivity. However, this comes at a risk to the Sumatran orangutan's native behaviors in ...
Rudi Valentino, the oldest male orangutan in North America, died at the Houston Zoo on Tuesday at the age of 45. Reuters visited the Houston Zoo four days before Rudi’s death to highlight his ...
However, they have frizzier hair, smaller heads, and flatter and wide faces. [4] Dominant male Tapanuli orangutans have prominent moustaches and large flat cheek pads, known as flanges, covered in downy hair. The Tapanuli orangutan differs from the other two existing orangutan species in several specific features: their upper canines are larger;