Tag: "orangutan"

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Orangutan Mama Keeps Her Little One Close

By on 21 Dec, 2012 in Wildlife

Orangutan mama Rosa was photographed holding her tiny baby at the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany on 20 December 2012.

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Sumatran Orangutans can Delay their Puberty

By on 25 May, 2012 in Featured, Wildlife

Orangutans of Sumatra, it seems have a special way to ensure that they become stronger and more attractive as they become adults. New evolutionary research has revealed that these Orangutans can actually delay their puberty up to ten years to become fit enough to fight of stronger males.

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After 10 days of pain Orangutan Saved from Poacher’s Snare

By on 18 Apr, 2012 in Wildlife

The latest victim of the Palm Oil Industry in Indonesia is an orphaned orangutan named Pelangsi who was trapped in a snare for ten days before a rescue team ended the poor animal’s plight.

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Momma Orangutan Protectively Cradles Her Baby While Bounty Hunters Close in for the Kill

By on 31 Jan, 2012 in poachers, Wildlife

Over the last several years, many animals have stood on the brink of extinction. For homes for humans, food for humans, paper, chairs and everything else in existence, habitat homes for wildlife are depleting at alarming rates.

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Progress Threatening Borneo’s Orangutans

By on 02 Nov, 2011 in Featured, poachers, Wildlife

While humans reach the 7 million mark the number of many wild animals is plummeting in the opposite direction with numerous at the threshold of being extinct. One of these animals is the Orangutan of Borneo in Indonesia which is fast losing its natural habitat to man’s need for food and industrialization.

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Baby Orangutan Cuddles it’s Stuffed Surrogate Mother

By on 05 Apr, 2011 in Zoo

A couple weeks ago we introduced you to a newborn Orangutan that was rejected by her mother shortly after birth.
Now, the one month baby is doing well and the zoo is optimistic the ape can be reunited with mum or introduced to a surrogate who will raise the baby as its own.

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Documentary Looks at Paris Zoo Orangutan

By on 22 Feb, 2011 in Zoo

Nenette is that star of a new documentary that looks at the life of the Pars Zoo’s oldest inhabitant. The new movie watches her as she lives in the glass confines of her cage along side her son and two cage mates, watching life pass them by at the zoo.