Amazing orangutans. (Animals).Can orangutans teach their children to eat fruit with a stick and wipe their mouths with a leaf? Yes, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a new study. Anthropologists The following list is obsolete. Please make no further additions to the list. For scientists and scholars of anthropology, refer to the category . H
Most orangutan orangutan (ōrăng`  tăn), an ape, Pongo pygmaeus, found in swampy coastal forests of Borneo and Sumatra. behaviors center around acquiring (getting) and eating food and communicating. Different groups display different behaviors. Along with chimpanzees, gorillas, and bonobos, orangutans are members of the great-ape family. Scientists have also studied chimpanzees, the only other animals known to have their own culture. The use of tools by chimpanzees inspired scientists to study orangutans. Chimpanzees share as much as 99 percent of their genetic material with humans. Orangutans are not far behind, with 98 percent. Scientists say that great apes great ape one of the larger monkeys, usually the tailless ones; includes gorilla, orang-utan, chimpanzee. first developed a culture 14 million years ago. That's more than 10 million years before the first humans walked the Earth! Today, orangutans are an endangered species endangered species, any plant or animal species whose ability to survive and reproduce has been jeopardized by human activities. In 1999 the U.S. government, in accordance with the U.S. . Fewer than 20,000 of the animals are left, all of them in Asia. "This study demonstrates the richness of orangutan behavior," says one researcher. "But our ability to...learn from these fascinating creatures is vanishing." |
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