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Susan Ann Sheward, founder and chair, Orang-utan Appeal UK, for serv endangered primates of Asia.
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The unexpected behaviour has been captured in photographs published in the book Thinkers of the Jungle — the Orang-utan Report, by Gerd Schuster, Willie Smits and Jay Ullal, of the Borneo Orang-utan Survival Association.
WHAT'S FOR DINNER? A CONVERSATION BETWEEN TWO ORANGU-TANS News from Mad Plato 2008
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Orang-utan numbers were severely reduced in the past because of the pet trade.
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The unexpected behaviour has been captured in photographs published in the book Thinkers of the Jungle — the Orang-utan Report, by Gerd Schuster, Willie Smits and Jay Ullal, of the Borneo Orang-utan Survival Association.
Archive 2008-05-01 News from Mad Plato 2008
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- An adult male Orang-utan, after Muller and Schlegel.
Essays 2007
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The animal tribe, then, is reduced to the following: -- Orang-utan, tiger cat, wild pig, deer, and snipe; the pretty "plandok" or mouse-deer, and honey-bears, being also occasionally met with.
On the Equator Harry De Windt 1894
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Orang-utan, Dayak resembling; shot by Chonggat; rare in Central Borneo; cries like child when wounded; supposed to be able to swim; stories of attacks of; as food; belief in soul of; folk-tale about
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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My readers all know that Borneo is the home of the _Orang-utan_ or
British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo 1884
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The same is the case with the apes, except that the Orang-utan has a small "opponens" attached to the great toe.
The Common Frog 1874
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The adult male Orang-utan is quite as bulky as a small sized man, while the Gorilla is considerably above the average size of man, as estimated by bulk and weight; yet the former has
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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