Bornean Orangutan

shared and socially transmitted ideas and characteristics used to generate behavior and reflect behavior and other primates besides humans, like gorillas, chimps, and orangutans do, in fact, have culture. Chimps copy each other into adulthood developing cultural behaviors by imitating their peers and research on gorillas, chimps and orangutans have shown they use tools, communicate with each other and even mourn the deaths of each other. This research paper will explain how and why chimps do…

In the hard sciences, also from the WWF, 96.4% of our DNA is the same, and thus leads them to be one of our closest relative. Orangutan having low birth rates because they have long periods of maturing stage, 6 to 10 years before their offspring could have another, and there is only birth at a time; due to these they are now labeled ‘critically extinct’, meaning, within 50 years…

100 years ago the number of orangutans were estimated to be around the 230,000, but now that number has dropped drastically. There are only thought to be 54,000 Bornean orangutans left, and 6,600 Sumatran orangutans remaining. Which makes a total of 60,600 orangutans left in existence. With the population suffering from a 75% drop in just 100 years, the rate of decline is unsustainable and the orangutans are in grave danger of ceasing to exist. This is all due to illegal poaching, trading, and…

Orangutans are somewhat solitary species but to some degree as also somewhat social. Flanged adult male orangutans are the most solitary of all orangutans with their participation in social activity limited to short sexual encounters with adults or sub adult females; however, there were none of these at the zoo. Male orangutans normally do not even play a role in the upbringing of their offspring. Females do associate with their offspring and they have a relationship that lasts for many years…

. . that the apes surrounding me were refugees from paradise, a paradise that we humans left behind to seek our destinies on the savannas and open lands of the earth. They were survivors of Eden." In my prior years, the time I spent aiding the orangutans in Borneo would never have come to mind as the deciding factor in the path my legacy would take. I mean, countless people like me decide to spend their lives and devote their time to working with the animals and nature that surround us. However…

Homo sapiens (humans) in present day genera systems. Hominidae are considered a taxonomic family that are made up of seven surviving species in four different genera groups; Pongo, Gorilla, Pan and Homo. Within Pongo genera, you have the Bornean & Sumatran Orangutan; Within the Gorilla genera, you have the Western & Eastern Gorilla; Within the Pan genera, you have the Common Chimpanzee & Bonobos; and Within Homo, you have Sapiens. Bonobos and chimpanzees are considered the only two classified in…

INTRODUCTION Orangutans, who are closest to our specie of homo sapiens¸ alongside the chimpanzees, gorillas and the other great apes – are primarily and wildly native to the forests and islands of Indonesia and Malaysia. Their chances of survival in modern day is critically endangered by both human causes (primarily) and natural causes (most of which chiefly arises out of human causes as well). The former includes aspects like deforestation, palm oil plantation and illegal logging; whereas the…