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Dogs and orangutans may sense magnetic fields for navigation
2016-03-03 18:30:28| Extremetech
Turns out that dogs and primates are the latest in a line of creatures that produce cryptochrome, the photopigment that lets migratory birds see the Earth's magnetic field.
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One-Third World Orangutans at Risk From Fires in Sumatra and Borneo
2015-11-01 15:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Despite some rainfall in the last few days, thousands of fires continue to burn on the main islands of Sumatra and Borneo. Unlike previous years, when fires mainly impacted agricultural land, these fires, fueled by a particularly dry season due to El Nino, have swept into national parks and primary forests, the last refuges for so many iconic endangered species, such as orangutans, rhinoceros and tigers. All these animals hover on the brink of extinction and now the odds have been tipped even...
Orangutans fight survival as thirst for palm oil devastates rainforest
2013-12-15 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Even in the first light of dawn in the Tripa swamp forest of Sumatra it is clear that something is terribly wrong. Where there should be lush foliage stretching away towards the horizon, there are only the skeletons of trees. Smoke drifts across a scene of devastation. Tripa is part of the Leuser Ecosystem, one of the world's most ecologically important rainforests and once home to its densest population of Sumatran orangutans. As recently as 1990, there were 60,000 hectares of swamp forest...
The Orangutans Road: Illegal Logging and Mining in Indonesia
2013-02-10 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Brookings: Like in a desolate Edward Hopper landscape, the orangutan was clinging to the one last tree that stood next to the river in Kutai National Park in eastern Kalimantan. The joy of seeing this magnificent primate was spoiled by his destroyed habitat -- under normal circumstances, the orangutan would never venture so far out of trees. But here he was in a beyond-degraded and marginal habitat, probably looking for food he could no longer find inside the forest. Although once a jewel of biodiversity...
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Orangutans now using iPads in Washington zoo
2013-01-23 17:00:58| CNET News.com
A program called Apps for Apes has swung its way into the Smithsonian's National Zoo in the U.S. capital. [Read more]
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