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About World Orangutan Day: August 19th-Every Year - Aug 2013

Posted 13 Aug 2013 in TOP in the Media

To recognize the most iconic victim of the palm oil industry, World Orangutan Day has been set as August 19th ...

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Zoo news: 6 things you never knew about orangutans - Aug 2013

Posted 08 Aug 2013 in Orangutans in the News

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Borneo's Orangutans Are Coming Down from the Trees; Behavior May Show Adaptation to Habitat Change - Jul 2013

Posted 29 Jul 2013 in Orangutans in the News

Orangutans might be the king of the swingers, but primatologists in Borneo have found that the great apes spend a ...

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Aussie creatives collaborate for World Orangutan Day with Nightingale Floor music and film project - Jul 2013

Posted 25 Jul 2013 in Orangutans in the News

Australian musician Sallie Campbell has composed a musical opus in honour and support of the plight of the orangutans and ...

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Australian all stars team up for Orangutan aid - Jul 2013

Posted 25 Jul 2013 in Orangutans in the News

Australian musician Sallie Campbell has contributed to an all star Australian creative team to launch a combined musical/audio-visual work for ...

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Casey's jungle quest - Jul 2013

Posted 25 Jul 2013 in Orangutans in the News

A former Morwell woman will make a gruelling 900 kilometre trek through steep tropical Borneo rainforest next month, to draw ...

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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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