Orangutan

A recent observational study have reported the stone gathering and throwing chimpanzee in zoo suggest humans are not the only ones who can plan for future. In Osvath’s (2010) study, they observed repeated episodes of male chimpanzee named Santino, making piles of stone and picking up a stone and chuck it toward the crowd, causing it to disperse. They found that Santino plans ahead for how he will react to the visitors’ approach to his compound, and that is inconsistent with interpretations that…

. . 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…

The freighter sank taking the rest of Pi's family with it and Pi escaped on a small life boat. Pi is now on a small life boat with a hyena,zebra and an orangutan that found the…

I found that this documentary caught my attention and interest very well. The experiment that Lyn did with her orangutan; Chantek, amazed me so much. As many people may disagree with animal testing, I think that this experiment of teaching Chantek ASL was fascinating. We all knew that Chimpanzees could learn ASL but who knew that testing beyond and turning society’s heads to orangutans would benefit us all so much? Lyn and her helpers at the university took good care of Chantek and raised him as…

It is November 18, 2016 at 1:00 pm and the sun is shining when me and my group enter the Birmingham zoo. My group consisted of Jasmine Williamson, Daniel Munger, and James Lowery. When entering the Primate house we started looking around and finding all the primates in the primate house and then choosing which ones each of us were doing. My hypothesis is whether there is specific behavior of non-human primates due to their size. The scientific name for the Angolan Black and White Colobus monkey…

Animals need to have access to enrichment activities that allow them to express their natural behavior. These enrichment activities or toys aim to encourage natural behaviours such as hunting, use of scent and hiding food, provide animal welfare by increasing exercise, satisfying ‘behavioural needs’ and stimulating animals, and to promote visitor education so that visitors can gain a better understanding of their natural behaviours and interests. An example of enrichment provided to animals in…

The infamous event of the Piltdown hoax is one that continues to draw speculative attention over a century after the initial announcement of the paleoanthropological findings. Although many scientists, especially those involved in the field of paleoanthropology, would like to forget the incident entirely, the Piltdown man—otherwise taxonomically referred to as Eoanthropus dawsoni—is perhaps the greatest hoax in anthropological history. Since the exposure of the Piltdown discovery as a forgery in…

once covered in a lush dense rainforest however in a twenty-year span between 1985 and 2005 nearly one third of that rainforest was gone. In recent years the deforestation of the Borneo has gained international attention as we see species such as orangutans, pigmy elephants, and rhinoceros are facing extinction due to the deforestation of the islands. The main cause that White cites for the deforestation of the island is the establishment of palm oil plantations. At the time this article was…

Introduction: What has a twelve to twenty inch foot, is covered in hair, and lurks in the woods and mountains? Many people say Bigfoot is a myth. However, research shows he and his cousins, Yeti and Sasquatch, roam these woods standing anywhere between six and fifteen feet tall. Evidence #1: Many people say that Bigfoot is just a man in a gorilla suit, but research shows that there could be something more out there. According to stories reported, Bigfoot can reach up to speeds “impossible for…

teenager, and then because the whole family to move to Canada and take the Japanese cargo ship, but unfortunately at sea, the ship Difficult to live Pi is followed by a hyena, a broken zebra, an orangutan and an adult Bengal tiger in a lifeboat, the hyena was killed after the injured zebra and orangutan, and then replaced by a tiger Pi killed the hyenas, Pi watched these things happen, but he could do nothing, after Pi and tigers drifted in the sea for 277 days finally returned to the land, and…