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A female orangutan at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo has become the first non-human primate in the US to be implanted with a human birth control device. I hope she doesn't think it's okay to just whore around all over the place now. Just because she can't get pregnant doesn't mean that Orangu-God hasn't stopped damning lady apes to Orangu-Hell for having extramarital sex. More »
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A set of Bornean orangutan twins were born Friday at the Hong Kong Zoological & Botanical Gardens. Warning: It's hard to watch this without making high-pitched little noises. More »
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Orangutans in a bathtub are pretty cute, but what's really amazing about this video is underwater footage of orangutan Suyia's swimming skills. Watch for Suyia's incredibly bendy arms — and the moment when the ape gets a little handsy. [YouTube] More »
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According to research on orangutans gathered at the Melbourne Zoo, our simian cousins like looking at us just as much as we like gawking at them. Professor Paul Hemsworth says his findings show "humans are attractive to orangutans." [Telegraph] More »
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The adorable apes you see at left may be homeless because of your junk food habit or your hair conditioner. The problem? Palm oil. As Glenn Hurowitz explains in the Los Angeles Times, palm oil "comes from the disappearing, ultra-carbon-rich rain forests of Indonesia and Malaysia, of which a whopping 25,000 square miles have been cleared and burned to make way for palm oil plantations. The burning releases enough carbon dioxide into the air to rank Indonesia as the No. 3 such polluter in the world. It also destroys the last remaining habitat for orangutans." We've previously posted about palm oil in Oreos (dammit!) and Girl Scout cookies (crap!), but, Hurowitz reports, it can also be found in many other foods: Entenmann's chocolate-covered doughnuts, Chewy Chips Ahoy!, Orville Redenbacher's popcorn, Hershey's Kisses "Hugs," and Twix. Oh, well, that stuff isn't healthy anyway, right? More »
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Two 12-year old Girl Scouts from Ann Arbor, MI, Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen, have refused to go door to door shilling cookies this year upon learning that Tagalongs, Thin Mints and other Troop-approved sugary confections are made using palm oil, which, due to harvesting methods, is not only incredibly damaging to the environment but to Indonesian orangutans. Says Vorva, "We've seen pictures of orangutans set afire and beaten. You really want to reach out and do all you can to help save them." [UPI] More »
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