How To Use Orangutan In A Sentence
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Yet the orangutan is a creature who lives alone, seeking out others only to mate--but their fur is an unattractive shade of orange, and they shit at unfortunate times when you visit them at the zoo.
By Popular Request--Why Not Moose?
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Suddenly, I remembered that back in 1978, when I was about the same age, the first Clint Eastwood movie I ever saw was Every Which Way But Loose, in which he co-starred with an orangutan.
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The rate of deforestation and habitat loss is so great that some scientists are predicting that the orangutan will be the first great ape to go extinct in modern times.
TreeHugger
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Goofing off on a holiday weekend for me means gardening (two blisters worth of digging), starting a new pastel for my primate series (a "cheek padder" adult male orangutan), pigging out on high-end junk food (Vietnamese fried calamari, creme brulee, and $8 martinis from Whitehouse-Crawford, the swankiest place in town), and then burning off the calories on a couple of marathon dog walks.
Easter Weekend
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A Florida Fish & Wildlife investigator thinks the "orangutan" seen in Baker County was just an orange-phase fox squirrel.
Archive 2007-11-01
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I became interested in exotic animals - things such as orangutans and Barbary sheep, or aoudads.
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Bonnie is an orangutan who has taught herself how to whistle.
Boing Boing
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There is nothing cuter than a baby orangutan with its tussle of red hair bedecking a mostly bald head and big brown inquisitive eyes sparkling with wisdom, curiosity, and soulfulness.
Jamie Bechtel: Will Orangutans Become Extinct Before the Conservation Community Gets Its Game on?
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But there is no single currency by which we can measure the benefit of saving human lives against the cost of destroying forests that provide the last remaining refuges for free-living chimpanzees, orangutans or Sumatran tigers.
Does Helping the Planet Hurt the Poor?
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It is mid-afternoon and the orangutan goes for a snooze in the shade.
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Orangutans are big apes, adult males can weigh over 80 kilograms and spend about 80% of their waking hours feeding their bulk.
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Those species were chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, gibbon, macaque and owl monkey.
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Even the illegal commercial hunting of great apes and other animals for food - known as the bushmeat trade - would not be nearly as widespread if not for the logging and mining roads that are cut through forests, allowing access to previously remote habitat of gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans.
The Guardian World News
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She manages a studbook of 950 orangutans living at more than 200 institutions in 56 countries.
StarTribune.com rss feed
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Orangutan offspring stay with their mothers until they're seven or eight years old, but orangutans are on the lower end of the sociability scale among great apes.
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These include the Sumatran orangutan of Indonesia, the mountain gorilla of Africa, and northern muriqui of Brazil.
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Diagrams of late prophase chromosomes (1000-band stage) of human, chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan (left to right for each number).
Dog Bites Man - The Panda's Thumb
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Here's my second attempt at a pastel - an adult male 'cheek padder' orangutan.
Archive 2007-04-01
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Alongside the paws of at least four bears was the skull of a rare Vietnamese saola deer and from the deep freeze they recovered the body of a baby orangutan smuggled from Indonesia.
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The adventure was part of Terra Incognito's outstanding ecotour of Borneo that involved not only creepy caves, but also elephants, monkeys, crocodiles and orangutan sightings.
Harmon Leon: The Creepy Gomantong Cave of Borneo
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Superfamily Hominoidea of Primates is divided into two families, Hominidae that consists of human, chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and Hylobatidae containing gibbons and siamang.
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The destruction includes prime habitat for the orangutan, siamang, and white-handed gibbon.
Sumatran lowland rain forests
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Mother apes - chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, humans - dote on their babies.
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Check out photos of a newborn potto, baby orangutan and some playful tiger cubs.
PHOTOS: This Week's Best In Animals -- Baby Potto, Newborn Orangutan, Tiger Cubs & More
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Probably the most powerful one minute campaign video ever produced rolled out across the airwaves; an office worker bloodily munching on an orangutan's finger found neatly wrapped in his Nestlé Kit Kat.
Scott Poynton: Dancing With Devils
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There seems to be no special vertebrate fauna associated with limestone in this ecoregion, although banteng Bos javanicus, orangutan Pongo pygmaeus, Bornean gibbon Hylobates muelleri, sambar Cervus unicolor, muntjac Muntiacus muntjak, and mousedeer Tragulus spp. all use limestone outcroppings.
Borneo lowland rain forests
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The plight of the orangutans is very moving and we felt the foundation would be a very appropriate place to raise funds for.
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The price of siamangs could reach $157, which is considerably more expensive than the smaller species of gibbon, whereas a Borneo orangutan could be sold for $406.
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Although orangutans live solitary lives most of the time, they have a complex social structure and are characterized by extreme sexual dimorphism.
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While many believe the term orangutan is a reference to its orange or light red hair, this actually isn't the correct etymology.
IsRealli - The New Blog of the State of Israel
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Orangutans, pig-tailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina), and the white-rumped shama (Copyschus malabaricus), with its melodious calls, can be seen or heard during the early part of the day.
Borneo lowland rain forests
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The major issue we face with orangutans today is what we called the fragmented population," said Marc Ancrenaz from the environmental group Hutan.
CommonDreams.org Headlines
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One of my top priorities was to pay another visit to Asia's only great ape, the orangutan, which is endemic to Borneo and the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
NYT > Home Page
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The orangutan man reached into his pants and pulled out a handful of brochures.
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Today it comprises humans, the gibbons, and the great apes (orangutan, chimpanzee, and gorilla).
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My first two carvings were produced from this branch: a small whale and an orangutan.
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Chimpanzee families really have something to screech about now that they, along with a pair of orangutans, have moved into new premises at the Johannesburg Zoo.
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Suddenly, I remembered that back in 1978, when I was about the same age, the first Clint Eastwood movie I ever saw was Every Which Way But Loose, in which he co-starred with an orangutan.
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There have been sightings of an "orangutan" around Glen St. Mary, Florida, a small Baker County town along the northern border of the state.
Archive 2007-11-01
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The lifeboat is also occupied by a zebra, an orangutan, and a hyena.
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Hopefully, my kids will recall afternoons playing badminton with their cousins, and boogie boarding at Pacific Beach, and watching two orangutans cuddle amorously at the zoo, long after I popped my final Xanax.
Thelma Adams: Obama's Family Vacation: An Oxymoron Case Study
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The orangutan is a Convention on International Trade of Endangerd Species (CITES) I species and was added to the U.S.
Southwest Borneo freshwater swamp forests
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Next week, I advance to the semifinals, where I will take on the winner of the all-in grudge match between the orangutan and the Barbary macaque.
Monkeyshines
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Those species were chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, gibbon, macaque and owl monkey.
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Orangutans, gorillas, and their ape relatives, meanwhile, will ineffectually thrash around in deep water or simply gurgle and sink.
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Think of the old world monkey or apes, the gorilla, the chimp, the orangutan.
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In fact, actually compared to chimpanzees and gorillas the orangutans are really much more endangered.
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Besides the more well-known gorillas, the zoo is home to two families of chimpanzees and a pair of orangutans.
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Hominidae, which is made up by orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and humans.
Primates in the News
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Probably the most powerful one minute campaign video ever produced rolled out across the airwaves; an office worker bloodily munching on an orangutan's finger found neatly wrapped in his Nestlé Kit Kat.
Scott Poynton: Dancing With Devils
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Hominidae is the taxonomic group that contains the apes orangutan, gorilla, chimpanzee, human.
Telling apes from humans - The Panda's Thumb
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He added: ‘When people think of monkeys they think of chimpanzees and orangutans which are actually great apes.’
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It is easy to point a finger at villagers whose homes adjoin orangutan habitat.
Jamie Bechtel: Will Orangutans Become Extinct Before the Conservation Community Gets Its Game on?
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Experts now bracket humans in the ‘hominidae’ family of great apes, along with orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas.
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When changing the oil in two inboard engines and a generator requires a human being with the arms of an orangutan and the I.Q. of a genius, something is wrong.
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Conservatives (sic) predict without immediate action, the orangutan could be the first great ape to become instinct in the wild.
CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2006
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The sighting of an "orangutan" or some other odd critter in Baker County, FL, has brought out more witnesses.
Archive 2007-11-01
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Explicit teaching of a symbolic lexigram communication system with some logical structure to the male orangutan Azy, ongoing since
Animal Cognition
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Besides, technically, chimps, gorillas, and orangutans are hominids, as they are all members of family Hominidae.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Scientific Evidence for the Lord of the Rings
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Orangutans and bonobos will be the first to go, then gorillas, and finally chimpanzees.
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The first of Call's experiments involved five orangutans and five bonobos, long-limbed cousins of chimpanzees.