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Save Our Orangutan's From Extinction!
Animals  (tags: palm oil, orangutan, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, endangered, extinction, cruelty, death, environment, suffering, protection, wildlife )

Lindsey
- 48 days ago - gopetition.com
I DID NOT watch the video! Just a warning: I do not know what is on the video. It looked too sad to click on. There is also a lot of info written below the video about the petition. Please sign to protect orangutans!
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Tell Congress to Protect Orangutans!
Animals  (tags: orangutan, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, conservation, cruelty, death, habitat, protection, suffering, wildlife, sadness )

Lindsey
- 66 days ago - secure3.convio.net
Baby orangutans are illegally captured and sold as pets - while logging and development are rapidly destroying the forests where their parents and other wild relatives live. Unless we take decisive action now, orangutans could go extinct in the wild.
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Illegal Orangutan Trader Successfully Prosecuted For First Time In Indonesia
Animals  (tags: orangutan, Indonesia, illegal trading, animals, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, environment, GoodNews, wildlife, protection )

Lindsey
- 87 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
uthorities in North Sumatra, Indonesia, have sentenced an illegal owner and trader of orangutans to a seven-month prison sentence, the first time an actual prosecution has taken place since orangutans were deemed a protected species in 1924.
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Orangutan Has Life-Saving Surgery In Denver VIDEO
Animals  (tags: orangutan, monkey, surgery, Denver, rescue, AnimalWelfare, conservation, GoodNews, protection, rescued, wildlife )

Lindsey
- 105 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
University of Colorado doctors had an unexpected patient on their operating table last summer -- a 44-year-old orangutan named Sally from the Denver Zoo. Sally was suffering from anemia and had a large infected tumor in her uterus, so Denver Zoo..
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Girl Scouts Win U.N. Award For Effort To Save Orangutans
Animals  (tags: orangutan, girl scouts, cookies, palm oil, AnimalWelfare, conservation, endangered, environment, GoodNews, protection, wildlife )

Lindsey
- 105 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
A pair of renegade girl scouts accepted a prestigious U.N. award in New York Thursday for their work bringing attention to the threat palm oil production poses to orangutans and the rainforest in Malaysia and Indonesia.
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Men of the Forest PLEASE JOIN
Animals  (tags: group, Men of the Forest, orangutan, endangered, protection )

Nancy
- 138 days ago - care2.com
LET'S SAVE ORANGUTANS FROM EXTINCTION!! Some Scientists say they might be EXTINCT by 2012!!! Link to 2 past news stories. Thanx Michela the Host...
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Fresh Wave of Killings By Hunters Takes Indonesian Orangutan to the Brink of Extinction | Environment | The Observer
Animals  (tags: animals, conservation, endangered, environment, habitat, humans, killing, wildlife, orangutan, apes )

Ana
- 181 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Conservationists have called on the Indonesian authorities to take urgent action to save the orangutan after a report warned that the endangered great apes were being hunted at a rate that could bring them to the brink of extinction.
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Justice for Mother Orangutan Killed in Borneo! Sign!
Animals  (tags: petition, orangutan, abuse, abused, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animals, conservation, crime, cruelty, death, endangered, environment, habitat, killing, law, protection, sadness, suffering, wildanimals )

Lindsey
- 233 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
TREMBLING with fear and tethered to the floor of a squalid cage, tiny orangutan Peni clings to her mum's tortured body. Our shock picture captures the last tragic minutes of the adult ape's life - after a frenzied mob beat her, pelted her with rocks.
60 comments
Orangutans Display Some Very Human Behavior
Animals  (tags: Japan, Tama Zoological Park, orangutan, human behavior, You Tube, sexual behavior, Birute Galdikas )

Naoko
- 257 days ago - search.japantimes.co.jp
You mey have seen the You Tube footagde of an orangutan cooling her face with a wet towel. Filmed on a sweltering day in August at Tama Zoological Park in Tokyo, the ape is seen dipping a towel in a pond, wringing it out, and patting it on her face.
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Orangutan Washes With Washcloth
Animals  (tags: Orangutan, Washes, washcloth, whistles )

Suzane
- 277 days ago - news.discovery.com
A smaller orangutan carefully watches and wants to check out the washcloth, but is gently moved aside.Most likely, the adult orangutan was taught this behavior -- since the washcloth was provided -- but it appears to be acting spontaneously
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Baby Orangutan Being Raised By Houston Zoo Staff
Animals  (tags: animals, orangutan, primate, baby orangutan, baby animals, endangered species, wildanimals, zoo wild animals, zoos, protection, animalwelfare )

Yrna
- 416 days ago - ouramazingplanet.com
A Bornean orangutan was born March 2,is being ignored by her mother,but at 1 month old she's doing just fine in the care of zoo workers.The baby will be clinging to her caregivers,and stuffed orangutan toy,24 hr a day,until she's ready to move on her own.
24 comments
5 Miraculous Animal Births
Animals  (tags: Animals, aphid, birth, elephant, giraffe, labor, Nature, orangutan )

Pedja
- 443 days ago - orangedonkey.net
Birth. It's the miracle of life.
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How Humans Are 97% the Same as Orangutans: New Research Shows How DNA Matches
Animals  (tags: animals, orangutan, primates, wildanimals, research, interesting, study, science, humans, endangered )

Yrna
- 483 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Orangutans may be more closely related to humans than scientists previously thought, a new genetic study has shown. The first blueprint of the orangutan genetic code has confirmed that they share 97 per cent of their DNA with people.
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Blind Orangutan Gives Birth To Twins In Indonesia (PHOTOS)
Animals  (tags: animals, orangutan, baby orangutan, twins baby orangutan, blind orangutan, baby animals, primates, birth, indonesia, wildanimals, conservation, animalwelfare, endangered )

Yrna
- 483 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
A blind orangutan at a rescue center in western Indonesia has given birth to a healthy pair of twins. Ian Singleton,who works with the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program,said Thursday that Gober,the mother,so far appeared able to care for the babies
18 comments
The Orangutan Who Babysits Lion Cubs
Animals  (tags: conservation, habitat, lion cubs, orangutan )

Michelle
- 630 days ago - metro.co.uk
When you've a pair of playful lion cubs with sizeable claws, it helps to have a 90kg (200lb) babysitter with long arms to keep them in line.
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