Orangutan
The orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), whose name means "Man of the Woods" in Malay, is divided into two subspecies, one inhabiting the island of Sumatra and the other Borneo. This hi...
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Orangutan
The orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), one of the Old World great apes, has its population restricted to the rain forests of the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo. The orangutan is the lar...
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Abstract:
The chosen study is a 1998-1999 survey of approximately 25 orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in the Meratus forest in Borneo. The Meratus forest has had no naturally occurring orangutan populati...
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Zoo Atlanta is adopting an 8-month-old orphan orangutan from an Indiana children's zoo, officials said Tuesday.Dumadi is expected to arrive Wednesday and will be given to 25-year-old female Madu, w...
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An orangutan in a Malaysian wildlife sanctuary snatched a French tourist's backpack and bit her while pulling off her shoes, socks and pants, the tourist said Tuesday.But an official denied the ani...
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Dozens of orangutans trained to box each other in a Thai amusement park returned home Wednesday to start a new life in a jungle reserve on their native island of Borneo, officials said.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Indonesia launched
a programme on Monday to save its dwindling orangutan
population, the last of Asia's great apes, from the brink of
extinction by protecti...
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Single male (red hair, long arms, interests include hanging in trees and grooming) seeks female for long-distance relationship and possibility of meeting up in future to help save species.
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At 4, Bernas isn't the computer wizard his mom is, but he's learning. Just the other day he used his lips and feet to play a game on the touch-screen monitor as his mom, Madu, swung from vines and ...
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Indonesia's tropical rain forests are disappearing 30 percent faster than previously estimated as illegal loggers raid national parks, threatening the long-term survival of orangutans, according to...
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An orangutan in a Malaysian wildlife sanctuary snatched a French tourist's backpack and bit her while pulling off her shoes, socks and pants, the tourist said Tuesday.But an official denied the ani...
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JAKARTA, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Climate change will hurt
Indonesia's orangutan population, already under threat from the
rapid rate of deforestation, by reducing their food stock, a
leading conservati...
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