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Orangutans
Meaning "Man or person of the forest" in the Malay language, Orangutans are large arboreal apes living in southeast Asia, specifically on the Islands of Borneo and Sumatra. The Orangutan habitat is tropical rain forest, including hill and swamp areas. They are of the Genus: Pongo, Species: pygmaeus (Borneo) and abelii (Sumatran). Both species are endangered and the Sumatran abelii is critical.
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What is happening to the Orangutans habitat?
Rainforests and the other habitats they are living in are increasingly being used and destroyed by man and this is reducing their places to live and feed and it is threatening their existence.
What would happen if the orangutan becomes extinct?
Oranutans are not yet extinct although they are endangered. If they were to become extinct, we would lose a unique species which is related to our own (being a primate) and which is relatively intelligent. The damage in this case is not tangible, but more of an abstract nature. We don't actually need orangutans, still, it would be a shame to lose them. They are interesting.
How many days it is from July 31 to september 11?
Including the start and end dates in the calculation, there are 14 days between the two dates.
Why is the orangutan indangered?
The main reason is deforestation of their habitat, and capture of young for zoos.
How can you stop the jaguar from being extinct?
Jaguars are Apex Predators and have no natural enemies. An adolescent Jaguar may be killed by an Anaconda or a large Caiman.
Jaguars were found in hundreds of thousands in both North and South America just a few decades ago. Due to extensive hunting their numbers have fallen significantly. An average of around 15000 animals every year just in the Brazilian Rainforests up until a few years ago, when governments world wide banned the sale of Jaguar Skin. If we consider other habitats the number killed would be even more. They were hunted to extinction in countries like El Salvador and Uruguay.
Another threat faced by the Jaguar is loss of its habitat. Population Explosion means people encroach on forests and jungles. Felling of Trees, diverting of rivers etc also dont help these magnificent animals much. If humans don't stop killing the Jaguar or destroying its habitat, this animal may go extinct
What animals eat redwood tree bark?
Common animals are the Stellar Jay, Chickadee, Racoons, Banana Slug, Hummingbirds and Vaux Swift. These animlas can easily be reasearched.
Does a orangutan reproduce sexually or asexually?
Being a mammal (specifically, a monotreme), a platypus reproduces sexually.
Orangutans are a type of primate that are orange in color. They live in rainforests in Sumatra, as well as Borneo.
Why does February have 28 days not 31 days?
There was a time when the year began in the month containing the beginning of Spring, namely March. This meant that February was the last month of the year, and it originally had 30 days. (This is also why September, October, November, and December have roots for 7, 8, 9 and 10, respectively, even though they don't fall in those positions now.)
July and August were renamed for Caesars of Rome and at the time those months were only 30 days. To honor the greatness of the Caesars, those months were extended to 31 days each and the days were taken from the end of the year, which at the time was February.
When Christendom spread further, the beginning of the Calendar was changed to coincide with the month epiphany, rather than the pagan tradition of the month of the vernal equinox.
The months we have today came from the Romans; originally there were 10 months - which explains the September, October, November and December names - which come from the Latin for 7, 8, 9 and 10. The problems started when Julius Caesar became the dictator perpetuo (dictator for life). He wanted his own month (July) - all the months had to be shortened to create the new month.
Next, Augustus became emperor and he wanted his own month (August) and he also wanted it to be longer than July. To get August to be longer than July, poor February had to lose a couple of days.
Originally the calendar was used to track agricultural concerns and only had ten months March - December. the time that was to be January and February had no agricultural relevance. When the calendar was competed January continued with the numbering scheme after December and February simply ran out of days before March
It was a political, religious and superstitious decision made roughly 2700 years ago by the Roman King Numa Pompilius. Up to that point the Romans had a ten-month calendar with 304 days, and approximately 61 winter days (between December and March) that were not assigned to any month. Numa created a new twelve-month calendar with 355 days by adding January (29 days) and February (28 days). In general, February has contained 28 days ever since.
Interestingly, February's 28 days were the second month of the Roman civil calendar but the last (twelfth) month of their religious calendar.
This is quite involved and is concerned with pride and politics. This is a very simplified explanation.
Julius Caesar reformed the calendar because it was out of synchronisation with the actual seasons, this in the early part of 46BC. This year ended up by being 445 days long to bring the calendar back in line the the sky's and seasons.
Not surprisingly it was called the "year of confusion."
He created a calendar that more nearly matched the annual journey of the earth round the sun. There were twelve months with alternating lengths of 31 and 30 days.
The exception was February which had 29 days and Leap years gave February 30 days to keep the calendar correct. Much of his knowledge came from the Egyptians.
The senate had the month of Quintilius renamed July after Caesar as an honour to his reform.
When Augustus became emperor the senate voted that the month after, then called Sextilus, should be name in his honour and thus it became Augustus.
However the senate did not like the fact that Augustus's month had 30 days and Julius's has 31 so they changed Augustus to 31 days, taking the extra day from February. This threw into disarray the organised way the months changed from 30 and 31 days.
Not satisfied, they tinkered more altering the number of days in the months according to what they thought was important and because they did not want three consecutive months with 31 days.
Consequently February lost a day (except in leap years) and we were left with the apparently random way the months alternate.
the only enemies of an orangutan are humans....we don't hunt these animals but by habitata destruction thanks.
we are the only enimies of the orangutan.
How many days between February the 28th and December the 1st?
Including the start and end dates in the calculation, there are 184 days between the two dates.
Are humans DNA closer to chimpanzees or orangatans?
apes. Because their more likely to let you pet them but that would be awkward to pet a elephant. So apes. Even though elephants and apes and possibly kill you so ya i would not own either and you could end up on Fatal Attractions so ya
Why is the orangutan an endangered species?
Orangutans are not yet exticnt.
They are endangered and expected to be extict in year 2012.
Yes and No,
There are two types of Apes, Great Apes and Lesser Apes.
Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Orangutans, and Bonobos are all Great Apes.
Gibbons and Siamangs are Lesser Apes.
All four apes can climb trees. The orangatan,chimp,banobo,and gorila. However, the gorila is very heavy and it is difficult to climb very high. Also its weight can break smaller branchs.
This is used often when referring to endangered species. Endemic meaning: special, native, unique, or distinct to and also prevalent or peculiar to a specific area, locality or region. While of course mammals, are animals, warm blooded, furred, and usually nurse young with milk. This is a simplified definition, but it is only a complicated term by the way it is used. Usually it is used when discussing the populations of a specific area. You would be referencing the mammals that are unique or distinctive to say, Africa not other animals that might have been moved to, or transported to Africa. So when someone uses this term they are referring to mammals that belong, or are unique to a specific area.
How many days has it been since April 20 2010?
203 days it has been since April 20 2010 (from Nov. 9, 2010).
How far is it from Beaverton Oregon to Portland Oregon?
Clackamas Oregon is 11.5 miles from Portland Oregon.
What are orangutans life span?
Orangutans live about 50 years in captivity; their life span in the wild is only 30-45 years.
