Activists: Paper co threatens Indonesia orangutans

One of the world's largest paper companies plans to clear a large swath of unprotected forest in Indonesia being used as a sanctuary for critically endangered orangutans, according to environmental groups working in the area.

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Orangutan makes a run for it at Australian zoo

A zoo in Australia was evacuated Sunday after an "ingenious" 137-pound (62-kilogram) orangutan short-circuited an electric fence and hopped a wall surrounding her enclosure.

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Palm oil frenzy threatens to wipe out orangutans

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.

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Orangutan at German zoo falls in moat and drowns

Zoo officials in Hamburg say their 10-year-old orangutan drowned after falling into a moat while trying to grab bread thrown in by a visitor.

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World's Oldest Orangutan Dies at Age 55

A 55-year-old Sumatran orangutan, believed to be the world's oldest, has died, a Miami zoo spokesman said.

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Orphaned Orangutan Gets Adopted

Zoo Atlanta is adopting an 8-month-old orphan orangutan from an Indiana children's zoo, officials said Tuesday.

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Orangutan Flees Cage, Goes on Rampage

An orangutan escaped from a Taiwanese zoo and terrified patrons at a nearby restaurant Wednesday, overturning picnic tables and motorbikes and forcing terrified diners to cower inside the eatery.

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Orangutans Play Video Games at Ga. Zoo

Four-year-old Bernas isn't the computer wizard his mom is, but he's learning. Just the other day he used his lips and feet to play a game on the touch-screen monitor as his mom, Madu, swung from vines and climbed trees. The two Sumatran orangutans at Zoo Atlanta are playing computer games while researchers study the cognitive skills of the orange and brown primates.

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An orangutan in Heidelberg Zoo has attracted attention after teaching himself to whistle. Now the 14-year-old ape has recorded his first CD.

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Bonnie's whistling isn't so surprising to her caregivers. The 140-pound (63.5-kilometer) orangutan at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., has been whistling for about two decades.

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Whistling at a pretty girl or for haling a cab or even for carrying a tune has always been a human domain.

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The Hagenbeck Tierpark zoo in Hamburg is in mourning on Thursday after one of their orangutans took a deadly fall and drowned when a visitor tried to feed her.

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Part of a new exhibit at Tampa's Busch Gardens was closed Sunday after a female orangutan escaped from its enclosure and had to be coaxed into a back area by officials. The 10-year-old Bornean orangutan escaped from the Jungala exhibit by climbing the windows of its exhibit.

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For those who thought that humans were the only ones using tools... "The extraordinary image, a world exclusive, was taken in Borneo on the island of Kaja, where apes are rehabilitated into the wild after being rescued from zoos, private homes or even butchers' shops."

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In their outdoor enclosure, they had torn up their birthday boxes and wrapping paper, and the shredded remains were all over the ground and in the trees.

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MIAMI — A 55-year-old Sumatran orangutan, believed to be the world's oldest, has died, a Miami zoo spokesman said.

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Horror of human brutality and abuse, fate of the Great Ape, Orangutan and "man".

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One of more than 500 endangered orangutans in a newly-discovered population in Indonesian Borneo, West Kalimantan, the boss is blissfully unaware of plans to clear this tropical peat forest for a palm oil plantation.

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You could choose a human if you preferred, but it was a novelty for many of the men to have sex with an orangutan.

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MACCLENNY, Fla. - Whether the mystery critter roaming northern Florida is an orangutan, a "baby Bigfoot" or something else, wildlife officials think it might have a bit of Homer Simpson in it.

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Sibu the orang-utan has miffed his Dutch keepers by refusing to mate with females and showing sexual interest only in tattooed human blondes.

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Sibu the orangutan has miffed his Dutch keepers by refusing to mate with females and showing sexual interest only in tattooed human blondes.

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Orangutan communication resembles a game of charades, a study suggests. Researchers from St Andrews University have shown that the animals intentionally modify or repeat their signals to get their messages across.

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A hulking orangutan sparked panic among tourists after escaping from his cage and terrifing restaurant patrons at the Taiwan zoo. The incident at the Shaoshan Zoo in the southern city of Kaohsiung comes after a crocodile recently bit off a veterinarian's arm.

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Today we are witnessing what some experts believe to be the "sixth wave of extinction," a species diminution that appears to be the handiwork of humankind.

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Veterinarians in Malaysia are preparing to perform the first ever cataract operation on an orangutan, a report said Tuesday. Aman, a 19-year-old male, has suffered from diminishing vision in both eyes since 2000.

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A orangutan mother carries her baby down a forest path.

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Confirming previously accepted beliefs, a large-scale comparison of different hominoids' evolutionary rates revealed that the human is closer to the chimpanzee than gorilla or orangutan.

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