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Sunday, 24 November 2024, 10:24 (10:24 AM) GMT, day 329 of 2024
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• Great Apes: Our Closest Animal Kingdom Relatives -- NATURE (42 min., 2021)
  
  
• Borneo Lost More Than 100,000 Orangutans From 1999 to 2015 -- The New York Times (15 February 2018)
  
  
• What is sustainable palm oil? -- BBCNews (03 September 2019)
  
  
• Orangutan Able to Guess a Taste Without Sampling It, Just Like Us -- EurekAlert (11 August 2016)
  
  
• Orangutan 'Copies Human Speech' -- BBC News (27 July 2016)
  
  
• Conservation Group: Bornean Orangutan Critically Endangered -- ABC News (08 July 2016)
  
  
• Facts About Orangutans -- LiveScience (16 June 2016)
  
  
• Orangutans Are More Like Us Than You Think -- National Geographic News (21 April 2016)
  
  
• The Orangutans of Sikundur, Part One: The Females And Their Infants -- Scientific American (01 December 2015)
  
  
  • The Orangutans of Sikundur, Part 2: The Males -- Scientific American (02 December 2015)
    
    
• Another Challenge for Orangutan Conservation: Food -- Scientific American (22 October 2015)
  
  
• Famed Orangutan Sandra Gets a New Home -- Discovery News (02 October 2015)
  
  
• Orangutan Conservation Project, Indonesia — in Pictures -- Guardian (02 January 2012)
  
  
• How Orangutans Survive Potential Starvation -- Live Science (14 December 2011)
  
  
• Orangutan Culture Develops Like Human Culture -- Wired (24 October 2011)
  
  
• Orangutan Washes with Washcloth -- Discovery News (22 August 2011)
  
  
• There's an Ape for That: Orangutans Love Their iPads -- MSNBC (17 August 2011)
  
  
• Orangutans Adapt Their Movements to Swamp Forest -- Planet Earth (26 July 2011)
  
  
• Happy orangutans live longer in zoos -- BBC News (29 June 2011)
  
  
• Gone Fishing, Orangutan-Style -- Discovery News (18 April 2011)
  
  
• Orangutan Genome 'Evolved Slowly' -- BBC News (27 January 2011)

• New Deal to Rescue Borneo Orangutans in Malaysia -- ABC News (10/28/08)
  
  
• Controversial Palm-Oil Plan May Save the Orang-utan -- New Scientist (22 July 2009)
  
  
• Discovery Channel Online
  • "The Man of the Forest"
  • Orangutan Cam -- From the National Zoo, Washington, D.C.
    
    
• Foundations / Societies
  • Balikpapan Orangutan Society: Indonesia | USA |
    
    
• Into the Wild, Once Again -- Washington Post (14 November 2009)
  
  
• Nature Online -- PBS
  • Orangutans: Just Hangin' On
  • Orangutan Tools
    
    
• Orangutan Ruse Misleads Predators -- BBC News (05 August 2009)
  
  
• Orangutan Survival and the Shopping Trolley -- BBC News (22 February 2010)
  
  
• Orang-utans fashion only known animal instrument -- New Scientist (05 August 2009)
  
  
• Orangutans Kiss Leaves to Sound Bigger and Badder? -- National Geographic News (04 August 2009)
  
  
• Top 100 Stories of 2009 #58: Orangutans Use Tool to Lower the Sound of Their Voices -- Discover (29 December 2009)