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Orang-utan plan
Wildlife campaigners are hoping to do a deal with the burgeoning oil palm industry in Borneo in the hope of creating a forest framework to save the threatened orang-utan. Palm oil companies and the Sabah government in Borneo have agreed to a project to create wildlife corridors that will link forest areas and create a network of safe havens for the ape. Palm oil companies and the Sabah governme...
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The orang-utan could be virtually extinct within five years after it was discovered that the animal’s rainforest habitat is being destroyed even more rapidly than had been predicted five years ago. A United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report has found that illegal logging and fires have been overtaken as the primary cause of deforestation by a huge expansion in oil palm plantations, wh...
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Is it true that “the orang-utan could be virtually extinct within five years”, as reported by [1] in a recent issue of Current Biology? The dire conservation status of this ape warrants a sense of urgency [2], but we would like to present a more balanced view and highlight the emergence of some positive trends. Illegal logging, forest conversion and associated fires occur in most Indonesian nat...
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BACKGROUND Orang-utans exist today in small isolated populations on the islands of Borneo (subspecies Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus) and Sumatra (subspecies P. p. abelii). Although, on the basis of their morphological, behavioral and cytogenetical characteristics, the Bornean and Sumatran orang-utan populations are generally considered as two separate subspecies, there is no universal agreement as to...
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Vocal fold control was critical to the evolution of spoken language, much as it today allows us to learn vowel systems. It has, however, never been demonstrated directly in a non-human primate, leading to the suggestion that it evolved in the human lineage after divergence from great apes. Here, we provide the first evidence for real-time, dynamic and interactive vocal fold control in a great a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Oryx
سال: 1975
ISSN: 0030-6053,1365-3008
DOI: 10.1017/s0030605300013053