Scientists from St Andrews University in Scotland and Indianapolis Zoo gathered a unique insight into the language similarities while studying
great apes.
Orangutans are one of the world's three extant species of
great apes and are native to Indonesia and Malaysia.
The Batang Toru orangutan was the first
great ape species to be proposed by scientists in nearly 90 years.
Sumatran orang-utans are one of the world's most endangered
great apes, and are listed as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), with recent estimates suggesting just 14,000 remain in the wild.
Ol Pejeta provides a sanctuary for
great apes from around the world.
The Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis) was originally considered to be part of the Sumatran orangutan population, but its classification as a separate species means it is considered the most endangered of all
great ape species.
A THIRD endangered species of orangutan has been identified, but it is the
great ape at highest risk of extinction and could be lost in decades.
Cloth $35.00--For the last decade and a half, Michael Tomasello has been developing an account of the critical cognitive differences between humans and our
great ape relatives and of how those differences have evolved.
Reports of outbreaks of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) infection with respiratory symptoms have been documented in wild
great ape populations (3-5).
They include such topics as questioning ethics in social health surveys, conservation of the African
great ape (how invasive are studies of wild primates), complex ethic structures in field primatology, whether long-term
great ape field studies help conservation, contested illness, the messy landscape between ethics approval and practice, web surveys in sensitive research, and the ethnology of university research ethical committees.
TEHRAN (FNA)- The most detailed range-wide assessment of the bonobo (formerly known as the pygmy chimpanzee) ever conducted has revealed that this poorly known and endangered
great ape is quickly losing space in a world with growing human populations.
Adrien Brody says in voiceover: "The
great ape. He's been forced to perform on television and in motion pictures for decades.
The
Great Ape lumbered through the four rooms of the apartment, halting in the living room in the course of one of his many circuits of his dwelling.
