orangutans

Rooks Show Intelligence in Catching the Worm

...on, the rooks selected larger stones over smaller ones to raise the water level more quickly. The study appears online Aug. 6 in Current Biology . orangutans are the only other type of non-human creature known to complete a similar task. "Corvids are remarkably intelligent and in many ways rival the grea...

Apes Love a Good Laugh, Too

... Tickled chimps, orangutans show signs of human-like mirth, researchers say THURSDAY, June ... sounds of all four great ape species -- chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans -- and acoustically analyzed and compared them to human laughter. Despite c...

Toddler Study Proves Humans Outsmart Apes

...nce . Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany studied 230 subjects, including 100 chimpanzees, 30 orangutans and 100 human children 2.5 years old. The participants were given the Primate Cognition Test Battery, which analyzes primate thinking and problem-solv...

Humans force yet another species to extinction

...rom tree nests and feces found under nests or near orangutans encountered along the Kinabatangan River. Two hundred orangutans were identified using genetic markers called micro...cline," Goossens explains. Sixty percent of orangutans found in Sabah are living outside the network of p...

orangutans in Biological News

New book expands field data available on orangutans

Des Moines, Iowa February 23, 2009 Great Ape Trust of Iowa scientist Dr. Serge Wich and three other internationally respected orangutan experts have edited a book set for release in the United States this month that, for the first time, compares data collected at every known orangutan research s...

Genetic study shows humans have pushed orangutans to the brink of extinction

A new study published in the open-access journal PLoS Biology shows strong genetic evidence of a catastrophic collapse in orangutan populations living in the fragmented forests of the Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary in Sabah, Malaysia. Benoit Goossens, Lounès Chikhi, Michael Bruford, and their ...

Humans related to orangutans, not chimps, says new Pitt, Buffalo Museum of Science study

...cestor migrated between Southeast Asiawhere modern orangutans are fromand other parts of the world and evolved i...t Schwartz first proposed in his book The Red Ape: orangutans and Human Origins, Revised and Updated (Westview P...s Australopithecusand fossil apes. They found that orangutans shared eight features with early humans and Austra...

Orangutan's spontaneous whistling opens new chapter in study of evolution of speech

...relatives." Previous studies have indicated that orangutans and chimpanzees are capable of species-atypical so...e National Zoo. Scientists have long known that orangutans copy physical movements of humans, but Bonnie's whistling indicates that the learning capacities of orangutans and other great apes in the auditory domain might ...

Saving Sumatra: Indonesia reaches historic agreement

...across Sumatra, the world's sixth-largest island, and was also endorsed by four Ministers. Sumatra is the only place on Earth where tigers, elephants, orangutans and rhinos co-exist. One forest on the island, Tesso Nilo, has the greatest vascular plant diversity of any lowland forest ever studied with more tha...

Great Ape Trust's Wich lead author of Oryx paper on continuing orangutan population declines

...erts' revised estimates put the number of Sumatran orangutans ( P. abelii ) around 6,600 in 2004. This is lower ...rea in Aceh that was previously thought to contain orangutans actually does not. Since forest loss in Aceh has b...in 2008. The 2004 estimate of about 54,000 Bornean orangutans ( P. pygmaeus ) is probably also higher than the a...

Great apes think ahead

...tached mental experience of a past or future event. In a series of four experiments, Mathias and Helena Osvath investigated whether chimpanzees and orangutans could override immediate drives in favor of future needs, and therefore demonstrate both self-control and the ability to plan ahead, rather than simpl...

Decade of the Mind symposium in Iowa to emphasize need for $4 billion in federal support

...ofessor of psychology at Glendon College of York University, Toronto, Canada. Russon has been studying intelligence and learning in ex-captive Bornean orangutans rehabilitated and released to forest life since 1989 and is widely published on the subject of ape intelligence, and orangutan intelligence in particu...

Great Ape Trust to gather internationally recognized scientists for Decade of the Mind III

...ofessor of psychology at Glendon College of York University, Toronto, Canada. Russon has been studying intelligence and learning in ex-captive Bornean orangutans rehabilitated and released to forest life since 1989 and is widely published on the subject of ape intelligence, and orangutan intelligence in particu...

Great Ape Trust signs agreement with Universitas Nasional in Jakarta

...es for U.S. students to study rapidly disappearing orangutans in the wild and bolster efforts for their conserva...h Center, the longest-running field study site for orangutans in Sumatra. Ketambe is located entirely in the Gun...90 percent of 6,700 critically endangered Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) are found in the Leuser Ecosystem. ...

orangutans in Biological Definition

Human

... with all of the apes: chimpanzees , gorillas , orangutans , and gibbons . Humans have an erect body carr...lf — along with chimpanzees or bonobos , orangutans , and dolphins . Human beings under the age of fo...panzees , the second closest bonobos , the third orangutans . Together with gorillas , these four make up the...