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Orangutans are great apes ... 145 Disney's 1967 animated musical adaptation of The Jungle Book ... The largest of these is the Borneo Orangutan Survival ...
The Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation is an Indonesian non-profit non-governmental organization founded by Dr. Willie Smits in 1991 and dedicated to the conservation of the endangered Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) and its habitat through the involvement of local people.
An orangutan will break off a tree branch that is about a foot long, snap off the twigs and fray one end with its teeth. [10] The orangutan will use the stick to dig in tree holes for termites. They will also use the stick to poke a bee's nest wall, move it around and catch the honey. In addition, orangutans use tools to eat fruit. [11]
Orangutans are believed to be one of the most intelligent animals on earth and closely related to humans. The fact that they are on the brink of extinction is a great source of worry for many ...
Orangutan Jungle School is a British documentary television series showcasing the journeys of several orphaned orangutans at the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre in Kalimantan, Indonesia, which is run by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation.
The orangutan's intriguing behavior was recorded in 2022 by Ulil Azhari, a co-author and field researcher at the Suaq Project in Medan, Indonesia. Photographs show the animal’s wound closed ...
However, the discovery of a previously unknown orangutan population in Malaysian Borneo is reason to hope. Threats. Human actions have reduced orangutan habitats by more than 80% over the past 20 ...
An orangutan peeling a banana with its hand and foot. The Bornean orangutan diet is composed of over 400 types of food, including wild figs, durians (Durio zibethinus and D. graveolens), [29] leaves, seeds, bird eggs, flowers, sap, vines, [30] honey, fungi, spider webs, [30] insects, and, to a lesser extent than the Sumatran orangutan, bark.