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hello human :)

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:59:41 GMT

clipped by: NoRest

Orangutan - when this image was taken, he was looking at a (human) baby next to me who was waving at him.

His freedom has been taken from him. Yet he is still able to display loving kindness towards man, his captors. I believe there is an important lesson to be learnt here.

Bizarre Bubbles Invade the Ocean Floor

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:47:21 GMT

clipped by: valann 47

Clip Source: www.environmentalgraffiti.com

Bunches of grapes grown in a radioactive environment? The genetically modified eggs of some strange unidentified marine species? Or a fungal growth that would call for a hasty trip to the doctor? Nothing of the sort. It’s stunningly beautiful bubble coral, and once we saw it we simply had to blog about it. Don you’re dark glasses; you’re in for a feast for the eyes that might leave you dazzled.

Club culture coral: Bubble coral under actinic light

Bubbles become fingers: Plerogyra sinuosa bubble coral in Timor

Wrinkly skin: Dangling tuft of Plerogyra sinuosa bubble coral

Crustacean cameo: Orang-utan crab on bubble coral

Shrimp and egg salad: Vir Philippinensis with eggs on bubble coral

Microscopic germs? No, Euphyllia ancora – anchor bubble coral

Alien frogspawn: Plerogyra sinuosa bubble coral on Hino Maru

Blue brain: Bubble coral in the waters of the Tongan islands of Vava’u

Tags: coral, bubble coral

Bulldog Kisses Orangutan

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:19:26 GMT

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Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: bulldog, orangutan, kisses

Janey - The Orangutan

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:43:53 GMT

clipped by: celestialdancer
clipper's remarks: More detail at the source article.

Clip Source: www.thenwhen.com

Janey likes to see what's inside. Sit quietly on the ledge and open your bag. Rifle around a bit like you've lost your keys, find them, take them out, change your mind and look again. Maybe take out some Chapstick and put it on. In a moment, Janey will come to see.

Janey used to live with the Vegas singer, Tom Jones. It's not unusual..or maybe it is. As the story goes she was with him for 20 years and landed in the San Diego zoo on some sort of immigration issue. That was 20 years ago, and might account for her interest in humans and our vanities.

In her eyes you find unexpected warmth, a maternal gentleness, a flicker of amusement. When one of her fellow orangutans gave birth, Janey acted as the middle of the night midwife. Her own birth was in the Borneo forest. Does Janey recall her mother's death as we file past the glass? Probably not, or perhaps only in shadowy dreams. A smell, a scream, falling, crushed leaves.

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Orangutan and Little Girl Become Friends

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:22:38 GMT

clipped by: murieleileen

Clip Source: www.animaltalk.us

Orangutan and Little Girl Become Friends

These pictures are very cute, and show the bonds that can develop among different species. It is important to remember that orangutans are not pets and these pictures are not meant to encourage that...

The little girl, two, met one-year-old orangutan Rishi at an animal centre while visiting with her father. They took to each other straight away and spent hours tumbling about and having a tea party. Emily poured while Rishi waited patiently, gripping his spoon in a hairy fist.

Tags: orangutan, cute, friends, girl, pictures

Orangutan and Little Girl Become Friends

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:15:22 GMT

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Clip Source: www.animaltalk.us

ZooBorns: Cute exotic baby animals born

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:08:53 GMT

clipped by: EddieIsSteady

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

ZooBorns: cute exotic baby animals born at zoos around the world

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"...and the Fennec Fox kits consistently bring down the house..."

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Menari, a baby Sumatran orangutan born at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans

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A pygmy marmoset at the Everland Zoo and Theme Park in South Korea

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A baby Potto (a nocturnal primate found in the rainforests of central Africa) that was born at the Cincinatti Zoo

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Joy, a baby sloth born at the Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica

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A newborn aardvark at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo

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Prairie dog pups play at ZooAmerica

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Two devious-looking baby hyraxes born at the LA Zoo

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A baby Malayan tapir at Belfast Zoo

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This ball of fluff is a Tawny frogmouth hatchling born at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle

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Here's another tawny frogmouth chick - this one was born at SeaWorld, Orlando

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A bundle of Asian Small-clawed Otter pups born at SeaWorld, Orlando

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Red Panda triplets from North Dakota's Red River Zoo

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The Vancouver Island Marmot

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One of two clouded leopard babies

Tags: photography, animals, zoos

The world's most unusual animal friendships

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:29:15 GMT

clipped by: EddieIsSteady

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Best friends fur-ever: the world's most unusual animal friendships

Bea, a three-year-old giraffe, and Wilma, an ostrich, have become the best of friends at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Florida

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A tiger cub and a pig snooze together, at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo, in Thailand

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Suryia the Orangutan and Roscoe the Blue Tick Hound

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Serval kitten, Shakira, with her adoptive mum, Rhodesian Ridgeback dog, Katijnga, in Germany

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A lewd lemur sticks his tongue out at a parrot in Hamburg, Germany

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Tinkabelle the sheep stands with her two dog friends.

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A goat drinks milk from a cow's udders in Hyderabad, India

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A young fallow deer with a herd of cows in Ellund, Germany.

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Leo the Lamb meets one of his new friends, Alice the kitten

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A mother cat is raising and feeding an adopted orphaned puppy

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A mother dog nurses two red panda cubs

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Three lion cubs feed on the milk of a mother dog

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A five-week-old boar, named Manni, plays with a Jack Russell terrier

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A man holds a kitten and a puppy in Amman, Jordan

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Tags: animals, photography

Orangutans make musical instrument

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:28:19 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

The evidence is mounting that culture isn't something unique to us humans: Orangutans in Borneo have developed and passed along a way to make a useful, improvised instrument, researchers report.

When in a tight situation, the orangutans will strip the leaves off a twig and make a crude musical instrument to alter the calls they use to ward off predators — not exactly a Stradivarius, but it seems to get the job done.

Several animals, particularly our primate cousins, have been found to use tools to aid in efforts such as foraging for food, a sign of culture, specifically the transmission of knowledge. This new finding marks the first time an animal has been known to use a tool to help it communicate, say the scientists who studied the behavior.

The leaves are stripped off a twig and held in a bundle in front of the orangutan's mouth while the animal makes the kiss squeak.

Tags: animals, nature, wildlife, instrument, tools, culture

Aesop's fable? This one turns out to be true

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:02:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: the virtue of ingenuity and how necessity is the mother of invention

Clip Source: richarddawkins.net

One of Aesop's fables describing a thirsty crow which was able to drink from a half-full pitcher after raising the water level by adding pebbles may have had a basis in real life

Scientists have found that rooks – a member of the crow family – were able to figure out how to raise the water level in a laboratory container by dropping stones inside to retrieve a tasty worm floating on the surface

Four different rooks

quickly discovered that they could raise the water level in a transparent container by adding stones, just like the mythical crow in the fable, which illustrates the virtue of ingenuity and how necessity is the mother of invention

The only other animal shown to be able to perform the same task is the orang-utan, which was able to grasp a floating peanut by spitting water into a tube. Scientists believe the demonstration shows that, in many respects, rooks and crows have comparable intelligence to primates when it comes to the use of tools

Tags: smarts

Aesop's fable? This one turns out to be true - #intelligence #birds

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:03:35 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie

Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

One of Aesop's fables describing a thirsty crow which was able to drink from a half-full pitcher after raising the water level by adding pebbles may have had a basis in real life.

Four different rooks, called Cook, Fry, Connelly and Monroe, quickly discovered that they could raise the water level in a transparent container by adding stones, just like the mythical crow in the fable, which illustrates the virtue of ingenuity and how necessity is the mother of invention.

Tags: 1-innovation, 1-intelligence, 2-success, 3-reported, 3-research, 4-intl

Orangutan ruse misleads predators

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:12:08 GMT

clipped by: cakebelly
clipper's remarks: more: Co-author Madeleine Hardus, from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, told BBC News: "This study clearly indicates that the abilities of great ape communication have been traditionally undervalued and that there may be traces of language precursors in our closest relatives, the great apes."

She added that the findings suggest that primate calling behaviour is not purely based on instinct, but instead is socially learned.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Wild orangutans in Borneo hold leaves to their mouths to make their voices sound deeper than they actually are, a new study shows.

The apes employ the leaf trick when they are threatened by predators, according to scientists observing them.

By holding leaves to their mouths, the orangutans lower the frequency of the sounds they produce.

This is used to ward off predators, giving them the impression the apes are a bigger target.

The international team made the discovery while observing distress calls made by the orangutans.

The apes make the sounds in response to approaches by snakes, clouded leopards, tigers or humans.

These distress calls are known as "kiss squeaks" because they involve a sharp intake of breath through pursed lips, producing a sound similar to that made during a kiss.

But by using the leaves to modify the sound that comes out, orangutans deceive predators into thinking the calls are being made by a bigger animal.

Mom showing off her new baby, Brookfield Zoo, Illinois

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:47:20 GMT

clipped by: mmlee
clipper's remarks: Photo. Proud orangutan mom Sophia showing off newborn baby

Clip Source: www.nydailynews.com

Sophia, a 27-year-old Bornean orangutan, smiles like a proud mother, cradling her newborn at Brookfield Zoo in Illinois.

Tags: orangutan, animals, zoo, illinois, nature, cute, photos, images

"see no evil"

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:03:42 GMT

clipped by: mmlee
clipper's remarks: funny pic

Clip Source: www.comedy-zone.net

FUNNY PICTURE: SEE NO EVIL

Tags: humor, funny, animals, pics, nature, orangutan

"bad hair day"

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:42:47 GMT

clipped by: mmlee
clipper's remarks: funny pic

Clip Source: www.comedy-zone.net

FUNNY PICTURE: BAD HAIR DAY

Tags: funny, animals, humor, nature, pics, orangutan