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Wild chimpanzees can charge at females, shake branches, hit, slap, kick, pound, drag, and bite them. Orangutans are among the most forceful of mammals. Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) exhibited aggression in almost 90 percent of their copulations, including when the females were not resisting. [13]
Orangutans communicate with various vocals and sounds. Males will make long calls, both to attract females and to advertise themselves to other males. [40] These calls have three components; they begin with grumbles, peak with pulses and end with bubbles.
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.
Non-human primates that are known to throw are bonobos, [16] chimpanzees, [17] gorillas, [18] orangutans, [19] capuchins, [20] certain gibbons [21] and perhaps some baboons [22] and Japanese macaques [23] (although not rhesus macaques). [24] A chimpanzee named Santino in a Swedish zoo was observed to stockpile stones to be used as missiles ...
Animal organizations recognize an increased need to protect orangutans and preserve their homes, and rehabilitated animals have been reintroduced into the wild at optimistically high numbers ...
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. In a first, an orangutan was ...
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.
Scientists have previously recorded other primates using plants to treat themselves. Bornean orangutans rubbed themselves with juices from a medicinal plant, possibly to reduce body pains or chase ...