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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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orang-utan, orang-outang XVII. — Malay
orang utan jungle dweller, prob. through Du.
orang oetang; prop. the Malay name for wild races of men misapplied by Europeans.
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Orangutans in Peril: Asia's only species of great ape faces an uncertain future.(Around the World)
Magazine article from: Science World; 2/5/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...looking baby orangutan trapped inside...for sale. Orangutans are an endangered...babies. Most orangutan buyers soon...sized infant orangutans grow into enormous...save other orangutans. He established several orangutan rehabilitation...
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Orangutans are copycats: but each group has its own way of doing things.
Magazine article from: Highlights for Children; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...seen that the same is true for orangutans. Orangutan Cultures In the wild, orangutans are found only in the forests...hutan means forest. The word orangutan means "person of the forest." * Orangutans are the largest tree-living...
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Orangutans 'capture' Cal State-Long Beach professor
News Wire article from: University Wire; 5/14/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...According to the Orangutan Foundation International Web site, orangutans are considered...25,000 to the Orangutan Foundation International...is for orphan [orangutans], clinics and...Galdikas and Orangutan Foundation International...rehabilitate about 200 orangutans back to the ...
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Declining orangutan populations in and around the Danau Sentarum National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Magazine article from: Borneo Research Bulletin; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...conservation of orangutans because they represent prime orangutan habitat and are...ideal habitat for orangutans (see Figure 1...habitat and suspected orangutan presence, incidental...suggested very few orangutans in the DSNP region...
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Orangutan rescue!
Magazine article from: SuperScience; 11/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...called the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation...would teach baby orangutans survival skills...to restore the orangutans' lost habitat...searching for illegal orangutan pets. When they...family for owning an orangutan! When the organization...illegally kept orangutans. Even today...
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Orangutans 'heading for extinction'
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 7/6/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...said the number of orangutans in Indonesia and...Iowa found the orangutan population on the...optimism" that the orangutan could be saved...the nation's orangutans, and the Aceh...see pictures of orangutans - previously regarded...surprised to see an orangutan pick up a tree...
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Orangutans show signs of culturally-based traits
News Wire article from: University Wire; 1/27/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...separate, socially based orangutan behavior patterns that...and determined orangutans clearly demonstrated...to 50,000-strong orangutan population scattered...vice president of Orangutan Foundation International...focus attention on orangutans' plight. This provides...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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ORANGUTANS SURPRISE ZOOKEEPERS WITH ESCAPE ABILITIES.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 6/20/1999; 700+ words
; ...an escape artist. Orangutans have been known to...had it there was an orangutan who could pick locks...Wichita, Kan., two orangutans escaped through stainless...cage and escape. With orangutans, Beck said, there...can't'' and ``orangutan'' in the same sentence...
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 "ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia)")
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SEVEN ORANGUTANS FROM THAILAND SUFFER B-TYPE HEPATITIS.
News Wire article from: ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia); 11/24/2006; 634 words
; ...Hepatitis. "The seven orangutans have tested positive...Founder of the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS...medicines for the sick orangutans because it's quite...Thailand, the 48 orangutans were flown to The Orangutan Reintroduction Center...
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From Orangutans, A Cultural Display; Ape Joins List of Species That Can Learn Behaviors by Social Contact, Imitation
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/3/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...years of data from six orangutan communities in Indonesia...president of the Orangutan Foundation International...decades studying the orangutans of Indonesia. She...the example of a male orangutan called Old Jon or...Indonesia. Unlike most orangutans, which dislike coming...
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Orangutans
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Orangutans Orangutans are large, long...are two species of orangutans: the Bornean orangutan ( Pongo pygmaeus...the Malay language, orangutan means “...woods. ” Orangutans are sexually dimorphic...
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orangutan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...The face of a young orangutan looks quite human...about age 14. Adult orangutans are basically solitary...distributors. The numbers of orangutans have recently dropped...listed as endangered. Orangutans are classified in the...See B. Galdikas, Orangutan Adaptation at Tanjung...
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Apes
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...gorilla populations. The orangutan ( Pongo pygmaeus...and Malaysia. The orangutan is the largest living...soil, and insects. Orangutans are long-lived...existence of the wild orangutan population, whose...international trading of orangutans, but they are still...
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ape
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and the siamang, and the orangutan , one of the great apes...of locomotion; the heavier orangutan prefers to grasp a neighboring...under (knuckle-walking); orangutans ball their fingers into fists...Chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and gorillas have been observed...
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Primatology
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...and Biruté Galdikas with orangutans. Of the three, Goodall's work has...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans) are most similar to humans on anatomical...to human beings than to gorillas or orangutans. Partly because of this, chimpanzees...
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