Showing results for "Orangutans" in All Categories

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.

Orangutans swing through rain forest trees. Learn all about these clever apes and their habitats in Orangutans.

Few people who have been slave to an addiction as vicious, as destructive, and as unrelenting as Colin Broderick's have lived to tell their tale. Fewer still have emerged from the darkest depths of alcoholism - from the perpetual fistfights and muggings, car crashes and blackouts - to tell the harrowing truth about the modern Irish immigrant experience.

There’s a new baby joining the family. It’s a baby orangutan! Learn all about what these adorable babies eat, how much they weigh, how they’re raised, and how big they grow.

The Orangutan Academy is my active and raw journey through Mammahood and first time homeschooling. I’ve recently stumbled across the concept that it is not my responsibility to mold my children into amazing adult beings. They are born capable of that on their own. It’s my responsibility to remind them to listen to their innate inner voice they so lovingly brought into this world. Here’s my journey, by way of achievements and mistakes, that is aimed toward helping my children construct their unique lives, free from the burden of responsibility for other people’s happiness, including my ...

The Orang Utan Republik, a rainforest education and conservation organization, lets you dive into their world of adventures, as host Anthony Porter and Gary Shapiro take a look into what makes the rainforest such a special place.

A dream come true. But more than that. A dream I had given up on, hidden from myself, brought to light, and then realised. And yet, the first time I saw orangutans in Semenggoh, semi-wild, it was not the experience I had hoped for. Sarawak is so much more than orangutans, and in coming here to visit them I learned so much more about their world, our world and my own world.

"Hop-Frog or the Eight Chained Orangutans" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The title character, a person with dwarfism taken from his homeland, becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical jokes. Taking revenge on the king and his cabinet for the king's striking his friend and fellow dwarf Trippetta, he dresses the king and his cabinet as orangutans for a masquerade. In front of the king's guests, Hop-Frog murders them all by setting their costumes on fire before escaping with Trippetta.

Herzlich Willkommen zum neuen Nachhaltigkeits-Podcast „97 Prozent Mensch“ von Borneo Orangutan Survival Deutschland (BOS). Wussten Sie, dass die DNA von Orang-Utans zu 97 Prozent mit der von uns Menschen übereinstimmt? Doch die rothaarigen Menschenaffen und ihr Lebensraum sind bedroht: Rasante Abholzung, großflächige Waldbrände und die massive Ausbreitung riesiger Monokulturplantagen vernichten täglich riesige Flächen Regenwald auf Borneo. Wir von BOS setzen uns jeden Tag dafür ein, dass die Orang-Utan-Population wächst, der Regenwald auf Borno in seiner Artenvielfalt erhalten ...

"Pssst! " - kennst du schon Wissper? Wissper ist ein ganz besonderes Mädchen. Sie kann mit Tieren sprechen. Wenn irgendwo auf der Welt ein Tier ihre Hilfe braucht, ist Wissper zur Stelle! Durch den Sandkasten, ihr Bett oder den Kühlschrank zaubert sie sich - "Pssst!" - in geheime Abenteuerwelten. Mit ihren klugen Ideen und ein paar tierischen Freunden an der Seite löst sie jedes noch so große Problem und weiß immer Rat!

"Indonesia's Orangutans Suffer as Fires Rage and Businesses Grow" is from the April 05, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Joe Cochrane and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Ein König liebt es, derbe Späße zu machen und sucht nach billiger Unterhaltung oder Ablenkung. Er veranstaltet deshalb immer wieder große Feste, um sich selbst und seinen Hofstaat zu amüsieren. Zu diesem Zweck hält er einen verkrüppelten Narren und eine zwergenhafte Tänzerin namens Tripetta an seinem Hof gefangen. Jeder am Hofe lacht über den Krüppel und demütigt ihn ungeniert. Man hat ihm den Namen Hopp-Frosch gegeben, weil jener nicht richtig laufen kann.

A New York Times Notable Book of 1994! Highly respected author, philosopher, and animal trainer Vicki Hearne offers a treasure trove of animal anecdotes, all written in her unique and poetic style. Through entertaining stories about cats, horses, an ornamental carp, a scorpion, and tortoises, Hearne focuses on how each of these various creatures experiences happiness in its own special way. She takes issue with Ludwig Wittgenstein on lions and language, discusses the naming of pets, and considers the process of mourning a loved dog’s death.

Did you know that orangutans spend most of their lives in trees? They are the slowest-moving apes. Big males sometimes have to travel on the ground because the tree branches can’t support them. Children will learn about the gorilla, chimpanzee, orangutan, bonobo and gibbon.