A team of scientists have undertaken detective work to trace the origin of the first orangutan specimen to be scientifically named<em> Pongo pygmaeus</em>. By tracing ...

Badul is one of three Bornean orangutans to have been released into Bukit Baka Bukit Raya park in Indonesia following a stay ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In most studies to date, innovations were studied if their orgination was witnessed or if they arose in response to a pronounced environmental ...

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A recent study of forest in East Kalimantan, Borneo has found that orangutans travel on the ground far more often than expected. The study, published in the American Journal of Primatology, was ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The fossil record shows that orangutan numbers and range declined rapidly in the late Pleistocene area; by 12,000 years ago they remained in only ...

A 23-yr-old, male Sumatran orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus abelii) died suddenly and at necropsy had peritoneal and pericardial effusions, cardiac dilatation with a pale mottled myocardium, and pulmonary ...