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Americans Youth Tells Starbucks to Say No to Palm Oil! - Jul 2013

Posted 23 Jul 2013 in Orangutans in the News

Did you know that the world’s orangutan population has declined by more than 50 percent since 1992? And did you ...

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Scientific first: Proof that autobiographical memory is not uniquely human - Jul 2013

Posted 19 Jul 2013 in Orangutans in the News

Gema Martin-Ordas of Aarhus University in Denmark published the first evidence that chimpanzees and orangutans have autobiographical memory like humans ...

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Chimps, Orangutans Have Human-Like Memories - Jul 2013

Posted 19 Jul 2013 in Orangutans in the News

A single cue—the taste of a madeleine, a small cake, dipped in lime tea—was all Marcel Proust needed to be ...

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Apes don't forget: Chimp and orangutan memories last years - Jul 2013

Posted 18 Jul 2013 in Orangutans in the News

Just like humans, chimpanzees and orangutans can apparently remember things that happened years ago in their lives, scientists now find.

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Kellogg's is killing off orangutans and tigers - Jul 2013

Posted 11 Jul 2013 in Orangutans in the News

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World Orangutan Day: A Celebration of Conservation - Jul 2013

Posted 06 Jul 2013 in Orangutans in the News

As one of the people supporting the inaugural launch of World Orangutan Day, we're billing it as one of the ...

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Bianca Dye's orangutan mission - Jul 2013

Posted 03 Jul 2013 in TOP in the Media

If trekking through jungles with leeches, cold showers, no flushing toilets and four-hour bus rides on bumpy roads full of ...

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DNA study reveals clues to human, ape evolution - Jul 2013

Posted 03 Jul 2013 in Orangutans in the News

A massive effort to catalog the genetic variation in humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans has helped researchers piece together a ...

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Sumatran orangutan beaten to death - Jul 2013

Posted 02 Jul 2013 in Orangutans in the News

Indonesian villagers have beaten a Sumatran orangutan to death, an animal protection group said on Tuesday, the latest case of ...

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Beaten and captured orangutan dies in Indonesia's Aceh province - Jul 2013

Posted 02 Jul 2013 in Orangutans in the News

An orangutan in Indonesia’s Aceh province died last Thursday after being beaten by residents of a local village attempting to ...

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