Because a picture will always speak louder than a thousand words, here's an entire set of them, in a 48-minute documentary. The film is called “Green: Death of the Forests,” and it was made by Patrick Rouxel. You can see it full above, after airing on Al Jazeera's “Witness” program... |
23 March 2012
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The police are trying to solve a shocking case of animal cruelty, recorded in Indonesia, at a palm oil plantation located in Muara Kamam. An adult orangutan was tortured and killed and authorities are doing their best to find out who is responsible for this tragic incident.
They started the investigation by questio... |
17 November 2011
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Monkeys, rats and dogs were found to have already enjoyed a good "laugh". What a rat or dog could think when "laughing", it's hard to say. But it seems that we, humans, have been able to laugh for many millions of years, and not since we turned into humans. A new research published in the Biology Letters shows t... |
3 January 2008
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Men dream on being polygamous, some do it unofficially, and in Muslim countries they do it legally; but, a new research, published in the journal "Science", shows that some early humans could have had "harems", such as male gorillas and orangutans have. This mating pattern in modern apes emerges when males mature lat... |
30 November 2007
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1. The Orangutan is the only Asian ape, closely related to humans, chimps and gorillas, from which they split more than 8 million years ago. Today they live in the islands of Borneo and Sumatra (southeastern Asia). Till recently, they were believed to represent the same species, but DNA analysis showed there are two ... |
18 October 2007
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We pride ourselves on our high intelligence and we say that this is the main trait that sets us apart from apes. But why are we more intelligent? A new research made by a team at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig on 106 juvenile and adult chimpanzees (living in sanctuaries in Uganda an... |
11 September 2007
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This was indeed one of the most interesting species in our evolution: a mix between an orangutan and a gorilla. A new research shows that an extinct ape could swing from both branches and walk along on all fours. But it is not clear if this is just an evolutionary dead end or a key step in the evolution of the tree-d... |
10 August 2007
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The general conception is that chimps are smart, orangutans are dumber. But orangutans come with big surprises in many cases. It was proved that they have the same ability as chimps to learn the sign language. A new research shows that captive orangutans "play charades" to communicate with humans, pointing that the a... |
3 August 2007
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We tend to see the apes that are closer to us as being more intelligent, like chimps and bonobos, while orangutans are seen like red clowns. This conception persists despite the fact that many tests have proven a high cognitive ability in this ape. Now they astonished scientists with an Aesop's fable-like situat... |
5 July 2007
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Myths manage to stir many people's interest and curiosity. Even if most experts consider "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch" to be just legends or a combination of folklore and hoaxes, there are some authors and researchers who believe they are real. They created the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) and are ex... |
27 June 2007
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A crucial trait that differentiates humans from apes is bipedalism (walking on two feet). There is a vivid debate on the emergence of bipedalism, as a characteristic feature that set us apart from apes. A new research on Sumatran orangutans in Gunung Leuser National Park (Indonesia) pushes this trait further than ima... |
1 June 2007
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