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77 relations: Arboreal locomotion, August Franz Josef Karl Mayer, Bark (botany), Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Bird egg, Birutė Galdikas, Borneo, Borneo Orangutan Survival, Brunei, Bushmeat, Captivity (animal), Carl Linnaeus, Central Kalimantan, CITES, Critically endangered, Deforestation in Borneo, Dublin Zoo, Durian, Durio graveolens, Durio zibethinus, East Kalimantan, Edward Blyth, Extinction, Ficus, Friedrich Tiedemann, Gorilla, Hòa Bình Province, Holotype, Homo sapiens, Honey, Hybrid orangutan, Illegal logging, Indonesia, International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN Red List, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, John Edward Gray, Kalimantan, Leaf, Lone Drøscher Nielsen, Malaysia, Mammal, Margarethe Lenore Selenka, Mitochondrial DNA, Orangutan, Orangutan Foundation International, Palm oil, Pleistocene, Prehensility, Proboscis monkey, ..., Rajang River, René Lesson, Richard Owen, Sabah, Sabangau National Park, Samboja Lestari, Sandakan, Sarawak, ScienceBlogs, Seed, Seneca Park Zoo, Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre, Slow loris, Social and environmental impact of palm oil, South Kalimantan, Subspecies, Sumatran orangutan, Sumatran tiger, Synonym (taxonomy), Tapanuli orangutan, Taxon, Tool use by animals, Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, United Nations Environment Programme, Weaning, West Kalimantan, Willie Smits. Expand index (27 more) »
Arboreal locomotion
Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees.
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August Franz Josef Karl Mayer
August Franz Josef Karl Mayer (2 November 1787 in Schwäbisch Gmünd – 9 November 1865 in Bonn) was a German anatomist and physiologist.
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Bark (botany)
Bark is the outermost layers of stems and roots of woody plants.
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Bernard Germain de Lacépède
Bernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède or La Cépède (26 December 17566 October 1825) was a French naturalist and an active freemason.
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Bird egg
Bird eggs are laid by the females and incubated for a time that varies according to the species; a single young hatches from each egg.
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Birutė Galdikas
Birutė Marija Filomena Galdikas, OC (born 10 May 1946), is a Lithuanian-Canadian anthropologist, primatologist, conservationist, ethologist, and author.
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Borneo
Borneo (Pulau Borneo) is the third largest island in the world and the largest in Asia.
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Borneo Orangutan Survival
The Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation is an Indonesian non-profit NGO founded by Dr Willie Smits in 1991 and dedicated to the conservation of the endangered Bornean orangutan and its habitat through the involvement of local people.
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Brunei
Brunei, officially the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei Darussalam, Jawi), is a sovereign state located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia.
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Bushmeat
Bushmeat, wildmeat, or game meat is meat from non-domesticated mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds hunted for food in tropical forests.
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Captivity (animal)
Animals that are held by humans and prevented from escaping are said to be in captivity.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.
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Central Kalimantan
Central Kalimantan (Kalimantan Tengah), is a province of Indonesia.
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CITES
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals.
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Critically endangered
A critically endangered (CR) species is one which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.
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Deforestation in Borneo
Deforestation in Borneo has taken place on an industrial scale since the 1960s.
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Dublin Zoo
Dublin Zoo (Zú Bhaile Átha Cliath), in Phoenix Park, Dublin, is a zoo in Ireland, and one of Dublin's most popular attractions.
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Durian
The durian is the fruit of several tree species belonging to the genus Durio.
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Durio graveolens
Durio graveolens, sometimes called red-fleshed durian, orange-fleshed durian, or yellow durian, is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae.
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Durio zibethinus
Durio zibethinus is the most common tree species in the genus Durio that are known as durian and have edible fruit also known as durian.
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East Kalimantan
East Kalimantan (Indonesian) is a province of Indonesia.
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Edward Blyth
Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the museum of the Asiatic Society of India in Calcutta.
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Extinction
In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.
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Ficus
Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae.
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Friedrich Tiedemann
Friedrich Tiedemann FRS (23 August 178122 January 1861) was a German anatomist and physiologist.
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Gorilla
Gorillas are ground-dwelling, predominantly herbivorous apes that inhabit the forests of central Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Hòa Bình Province
Hòa Bình is a mountainous province of Vietnam, located in the nation's Northwest region.
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Holotype
A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described.
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Homo sapiens
Homo sapiens is the systematic name used in taxonomy (also known as binomial nomenclature) for the only extant human species.
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Honey
Honey is a sweet, viscous food substance produced by bees and some related insects.
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Hybrid orangutan
A hybrid orangutan or cocktail orangutan is a usually captive-born orangutan derived from interbreeding between Bornean (Pongo pygmaeus) and Sumatran (Pongo abelii) orangutans.
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Illegal logging
Illegal logging is the harvest, transportation, purchase or sale of timber in violation of laws.
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Indonesia
Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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IUCN Red List
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), founded in 1964, has evolved to become the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.
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Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber
Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (17 January 1739 in Weißensee, Thuringia – 10 December 1810 in Erlangen), often styled J.C.D. von Schreber, was a German naturalist.
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John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray, FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist.
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Kalimantan
Kalimantan is the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo.
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Leaf
A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem.
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Lone Drøscher Nielsen
Lone Drøscher Nielsen (born November 4, 1964) is a Danish wildlife conservationist who established the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Reintroduction Project in Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia in 1998.
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Malaysia
Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia.
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Mammal
Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.
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Margarethe Lenore Selenka
Lenore Margarethe Selenka-Heinemann (7 October 1860, Hamburg – 16 December 1922, Munich) was a German zoologist, anthropologist, feminist and pacifist.
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Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA or mDNA) is the DNA located in mitochondria, cellular organelles within eukaryotic cells that convert chemical energy from food into a form that cells can use, adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Orangutan
The orangutans (also spelled orang-utan, orangutang, or orang-utang) are three extant species of great apes native to Indonesia and Malaysia.
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Orangutan Foundation International
Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) has its headquarters in Los Angeles, California.
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Palm oil
Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms, primarily the African oil palm Elaeis guineensis, and to a lesser extent from the American oil palm Elaeis oleifera and the maripa palm Attalea maripa.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Prehensility
Prehensility is the quality of an appendage or organ that has adapted for grasping or holding.
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Proboscis monkey
The proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) or long-nosed monkey, known as the bekantan in Indonesia, is a reddish-brown arboreal Old World monkey with an unusually large nose.
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Rajang River
The Rajang River (Batang Rajang) is a river in Sarawak, Malaysia.
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René Lesson
René Primevère Lesson (20 March 1794 – 28 April 1849) was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist.
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Richard Owen
Sir Richard Owen (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist.
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Sabah
Sabah is a state of Malaysia located on the northern portion of Borneo Island.
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Sabangau National Park
Sabangau National Park (sometimes spelled Sebangau) is a national park in Central Kalimantan, a province of Indonesia in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo established in 2004.
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Samboja Lestari
Samboja Lestari is an area of restored tropical rainforest near the city of Balikpapan in East Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia, created by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS) led by Dr Willie Smits, with the aim of providing a safe haven for rehabilitated orangutans while at the same time providing a source of income for local people.
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Sandakan
Sandakan (Jawi) formerly known at various times as Elopura, is the capital of the Sandakan District in Sabah, Malaysia.
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Sarawak
Sarawak is a state of Malaysia.
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ScienceBlogs
ScienceBlogs was an invitation-only blog network and virtual community that operated for a little less than twelve years, from 2006 to 2017.
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Seed
A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering.
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Seneca Park Zoo
Seneca Park Zoo is a 15.5-acre (6.3 ha) zoo located in Rochester, New York.
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Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre
Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre is located about 25 kilometres west of Sandakan in the state of Sabah, Malaysia.
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Slow loris
Slow lorises are a group of several species of nocturnal strepsirrhine primates that make up the genus Nycticebus.
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Social and environmental impact of palm oil
Palm oil, produced from the oil palm, is a basic source of income for many farmers in South East Asia, Central and West Africa, and Central America.
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South Kalimantan
South Kalimantan (Kalimantan Selatan) is a province of Indonesia.
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Subspecies
In biological classification, the term subspecies refers to a unity of populations of a species living in a subdivision of the species’s global range and varies from other populations of the same species by morphological characteristics.
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Sumatran orangutan
The Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) is one of the three species of orangutans.
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Sumatran tiger
The Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica) is a tiger population that lives in the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
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Synonym (taxonomy)
In scientific nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name,''ICN'', "Glossary", entry for "synonym" although the term is used somewhat differently in the zoological code of nomenclature.
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Tapanuli orangutan
The Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis) is a species of orangutan, native to South Tapanuli in the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.
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Taxon
In biology, a taxon (plural taxa; back-formation from taxonomy) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.
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Tool use by animals
Tool use by animals is a phenomenon in which an animal uses any kind of tool in order to achieve a goal such as acquiring food and water, grooming, defense, recreation or construction.
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Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forests, are a tropical and subtropical forest biome, sometimes referred to as jungle.
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United Nations Environment Programme
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is an agency of United Nations and coordinates its environmental activities, assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices.
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Weaning
Weaning is the process of gradually introducing an infant mammal to what will be its adult diet and withdrawing the supply of its mother's milk.
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West Kalimantan
West Kalimantan (Kalimantan Barat, Malay: كليمنتان بارت,; Hakka: Sî-Kâ-lí-màn-tân; Teochew: Sai-Gia-li-man-dang) is a province of Indonesia.
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Willie Smits
Willie Smits (born February 22, 1957, in Weurt, Gelderland, the Netherlands) is a trained forester, a microbiologist, conservationist, animal rights activist, wilderness engineer and social entrepreneur.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bornean_orangutan
