Download or read book Orangutans written by Julie Murray and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the history, physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of orangutans.
Download or read book Face to Face with Orangutans written by Tim Laman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the orangutan of Borneo in its natural habitat, including information on the threats that now face this incredible primate.
Download or read book Orangutans written by Buffy Silverman and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2012 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces orangutans, describing their behavior, habitat, life cycle, eating habits, and the threats they face from deforestation and poaching.
Download or read book Save the Orangutan written by Sarah Eason and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the orangutan's physical appearance, where they live, what they eat, how they survive, how they raise their babies, and explains why they are endangered and what can be done to help.
Download or read book Curious About Orangutans written by Gina Shaw and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primate Power! What's got long red hair, toes that work like thumbs, arms longer than its legs, swings from tree branch to tree branch, and can even use an iPad? The amazing orangutan! Smithsonian's National Zoo is actively working to help save this endangered primate. Curious about how? Check out this 8 x 8 filled with full-color photos and lively text about how orangutans live and how the Zoo provides for their enrichment and survival.
Download or read book Orangutan Orphans written by Clare Hibbert and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orangutans are threatened by the loss of their rainforest habitats and their popularity among illegal pet traders. These things leave many orangutans orphaned. However, there are many organizations that have created centers to help these orphaned animals. Readers explore different careers available for those who want to help orangutans, and they also learn amazing facts about these playful animals. Fact boxes and vibrant photographs hold readers’ attention as they learn. Centers devoted to the care of orangutans are very important to the balance in rainforest ecosystems, and readers discover exactly why in this volume.
Download or read book Orangutans and Their Battle for Survival written by Leif Cocks and published by Tuart House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the arrival of European explorers in Southeast Asia around 300 years ago, the orangutan - the world's second-largest ape and one of our closest biological relatives - began a battle for survival. As the rainforest was cleared and burnt, and the orangutans were poached and sold, remnant populations have dwindled to alarmingly small numbers. This is the amazing story of how a small Australian zoo offers hope for the orangutans, through its very successful captive breeding program. The story is told through the eyes and heart of Leif Cocks, whose personal encounters with the orangutans in his care have enabled him to provide fascinating insights into their unique intelligence and individual personalities. The photographs capture some wonderful moments in the orangutan enclosures at the zoo.
Download or read book Orangutans Are Ticklish written by and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents photographs to fascinate young animal lovers, from the kangaroo's inability to walk backward to the aardvark's voracious appetite for termites.
Download or read book Orangutans written by Serge A. Wich and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes one of our closest relatives, the orangutan, and the only extant great ape in Asia. It is increasingly clear that orangutan populations show extensive variation in behavioural ecology, morphology, life history, and genes. Indeed, on the strength of the latest genetic and morphological evidence, it has been proposed that orangutans actually constitute two species which diverged more than a million years ago - one on the island of Sumatra the other on Borneo, with the latter comprising three subspecies. This book has two main aims. The first is to carefully compare data from every orangutan research site, examining the differences and similarities between orangutan species, subspecies and populations. The second is to develop a theoretical framework in which these differences and similarities can be explained. To achieve these goals the editors have assembled the world's leading orangutan experts to rigorously synthesize and compare the data, quantify the similarities or differences, and seek to explain them. Orangutans is the first synthesis of orangutan biology to adopt this novel, comparative approach. It analyses and compares the latest data, developing a theoretical framework to explain morphological, life history, and behavioural variation. Intriguingly, not all behavioural differences can be attributed to ecological variation between and within the two islands; relative rates of social learning also appear to have been influential. The book also emphasizes the crucial impact of human settlement on orangutans and looks ahead to the future prospects for the survival of critically endangered natural populations.
Download or read book The Orang Utan written by L.E.M. de Boer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1982-09-30 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Orangutans written by Gisela Kaplan and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2000-06-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate look at the most humanlike primates on the face of the Earth.
Download or read book Orangutan written by Edana Eckart and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 2003 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an introduction to the physical characteristics, habitat, and behaviors of orangutans.
Download or read book Reaching for the Canopy written by Kylie Bullo and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Temara had done her species proud and proven that captive orangutans do have a place in the jungle of tomorrow. I felt honoured that I was by her side during the first part of her remarkable world-first journey.” In 2006, Kylie Bullo and her colleagues at Perth Zoo were part of a bold, groundbreaking experiment that many experts believed was doomed to failure – to return a zoo-born orangutan to the wild. The orangutan they chose was Temara, a fiery redhead with a will of her own. Temara had always been strong, intelligent and independent, but preparing for the return to the jungles of her ancestors would put all her best qualities – and those of her keepers – to the test. This is the story of that remarkable journey and of the remarkable woman who helped make it happen. It proves that the right blend of passion, compassion and hard work can achieve what many thought was impossible. And it brings new hope to those fighting to bring this magnificent creature back from the brink of extinction.
Download or read book Swinging Smarties written by Felicia Macheske and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young children are natural problem solvers and always looking for answers, especially when it involves animals. Guess What: Swinging Smarties: Orangutan provides young curious readers with striking visual clues and simply written hints. Using the photos and text, readers rely on visual literacy skills, reading, and reasoning as they solve the animal mystery. Clearly written facts give readers a deeper understanding of how the orangutan lives, including its endangered status. Additional text features, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.
Download or read book The Neglected Ape written by Biruté M.F. Galdikas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The orangutan is the most highly endangered species of great ape. Orangutans are threatened by deforestation, poaching, the illegal pet trade, and the isolation and fragmen tation of dwindling wild populations. Their conservation is impeded by certain aspects of their ecology (e. g. , a rain forest habitat) and certain features of their life history (e. g. , an eight-to twelve-year interbirth interval). Added to the U. S. Endangered Species List in 1970, the orangutan is now clearly on the road to extinction. The number of wild orangutans in Borneo and Sumatra is currently estimated to have decreased to between 12,300 and 20,571 individuals. Only 2% of original orangutan habitat is protected and some of these areas are now being destroyed. Clearly, attention to ecology, demography, censusing, rehabilitation, and conservation is essential if the orangutan is to survive in the wild beyond the next century. The protection of orangutans is a complex, multifaceted problem, involving such pressing issues as human poverty, overpopulation, and the economic development of Southeast Asia. Although the orangutan has been placed in Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), more orangutans were sold illegally in Taiwan between 1990 and 1993 than are housed in all the world's zoos. In the past, scientific and public attention has centered on the African apes. For this reason, the sole Asian great ape, the orangutan, has been called the "neglected ape.
Download or read book Orangutans written by Janet Ellen Riehecky and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's that red-haired animal swinging through the rain forest's trees seemingly without a care in the world? It's an orangutan! Aside from all that red hair, these beautiful beasts look almost human, but they're a lot stronger. Learn more about these colorful animals, including how they live, how clever they are, how they're dealing with a shrinking habitat, and what you can do to help.
Download or read book Among the Orangutans written by Evelyn Gallardo and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1993-03 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and research of Birute Galdikas, prominent expert on the behavior of orangutans in the wild.
