All Posts Tagged With: "Male Orangutan"

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Thailand zoo welcomes baby orangutan

(NECN: Thailand) – Songkhla Zoo in southern Thailand displayed a newborn male orangutan for the first time on Wednesday.
The baby orangutan was born to parents, Toto and Nancy, the zoo’s most favorite pair of orangutan. Since its birth about a month ago, zookeepers have nurtured the cub with special care.
Songkhla Zoo had previously been successful [...]

3Jun2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued
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Palm oil frenzy threatens to wipe out orangutans

By ROBIN MCDOWELL
TANJUNG PUTING NATIONAL PARK, Indonesia (AP) — Hoping to unravel the mysteries of human origin, anthropologist Louis Leakey sent three young women to Africa and Asia to study our closest relatives: It was chimpanzees for Jane Goodall, mountain gorillas for Dian Fossey and the elusive, solitary orangutans for Birute Mary Galdikas.
Nearly four [...]

18Jan2009 | Sara | 1 comment | Continued
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While you sleep in, lemurs steal and a cheetah charges

By MARY FLOOD
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
Elephants swayed in anticipation of breakfast. Sifaka lemurs made marionette-like jumps to sneak up to steal a tortoise’s food. A spectacled bear smashed chunks of ice on the rocks to get at the breakfast hidden inside.
The morning mist had not yet risen Saturday, when Houston Zoo members were admitted an [...]

2Nov2008 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued
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