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Showing posts with label Orangutan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orangutan. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Oregon Zoo Names Its Baby Orangutan After One of Dolly Parton's Most Famous Songs

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Dolly Parton is an inspiration to many around the world –– including the keepers at the Oregon Zoo in Portland who have named their new baby...
Sunday, August 1, 2021

9 Great Apes At San Diego Zoo Become First Non-Humans To Receive A COVID Vaccine

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  SAN DIEGO (CBS Los Angeles) – Nine great apes at the San Diego Zoo have received a COVID-19 vaccine, it was reported Thursday. The four or...
Monday, August 31, 2020

Authorities Rescue a Wild Orangutan Who’d Been Captured and Held Captive by a Group of Local Villagers

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Authorities in Borneo, a giant island in Asia, came to the rescue of this wild orangutan who’d been captured and held captive by a group of ...
Sunday, February 16, 2020

Orangutan Granted 'Personhood' Turns 34, Makes New Friend

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WAUCHULA, Fla. (AP) — A orangutan named Sandra, who was granted legal personhood by a judge in Argentina and later found a new home in Flo...
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Orangutan Born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo

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For the first time in 25 years, primate staff at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo are celebrating the birth of a male Bornean orangutan. He ...
Monday, February 29, 2016

Indonesia: Fire Deliberately Started, Killed Three Female Orangutans, to Clear the Land for Farming

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These are the horrific pictures of three female orangutans who were killed in a land fire in Indonesia. The orangutans, two, twenty-y...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

U.S. Court Grants 'Human Rights' to Chimpanzees: Top Naturalist Reveals Why the Animals Are Like Us Than We Think

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How would you feel about marrying a chimpanzee? Horror, disgust, revulsion: I mean, they are not human, are they? So, how would you fe...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

Our Interest in Unlikely Animal Friendships Reveals Something Surprising About Humankind

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YouTube/National Geographic Applying psychology to the topic of animal cuteness might seem like using a hammer on an egg. Can't we agr...