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Do you know anyone who would tease a tiger, provoke a python or make a crocodile cross all in one day? Well... There once was a cheeky young orang-utan,A mischievous ape named Yip Yang Pertang.Every morning his anxious mum would say,Don t you go playing your tricks today.This rainforest is full of fierce folkWho wouldn t take kindly to an orang-utan joke. Follow Yip Yang Pertang s hair-raising adventure through the rain forest and discover if he can survive until bedtime. ... Read more

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Text and photographs present baby orangutans in the zoo as they are cared for by a human "mother." ... Read more

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Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the orangutan. ... Read more

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A look at orangutans in the rain forest as they swing through the treetops and care for their babies. ... Read more

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Orangutan
My 1 1/2 yr old loves this book, she's in a big animal phase, and loves to explore what Orangutan's do.The book shows mommy and baby Orangutans, swinging ones, ones with different expressions.Great little travel book. ... Read more

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Take a look inside the pages of this book and discover the answers to lots of interesting questions about mammals. You will find fantastic picture to help explain things more, cartoons to make you giggle, and fun things to do in the color panels. ... Read more

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In the 1960s, it was believed that no more than about 4,000orang-utans remained in the wild. Consequently, IUCN -- TheWorld Conservation Union -- declared the ape an endangeredspecies, demanding its world-wide protection. Nevertheless, theorang-utan today faces extinction because it is dependent on arain-forest habitat that is rapidly being demolished due to humangreed, and a growing human population. Rijksen was among the first to make a detailed study of the ape in thewild, emerging as an authority on orang-utan conservation. In the late1980s he became so alarmed by local rumours of the rapid decline ofwild orang-utans that he initiated the study leading to this book.Meijaard conducted the ambitious, island-spanning surveys in Borneoand Sumatra to reveal the ape's whereabouts. This is the story of their findings. It is the first comprehensivestudy of the ape's distribution and status based on a wealth offirst-hand field data, and a frank, disturbing account of a mixture ofgood intentions, ignorance and greed, spelling doom for our Asianrelative. Nevertheless, the authors emphasise that the orang-utan can survive. Arealistic plan to save the ape, and with it thousands of unique wildanimals and plants, does exist. It is the authors' hope that OurVanishing Relative, so urgent and eloquent in its description ofthe deadly net of problems descending over our helpless relative, willawaken attention and empathy in order to safeguard the future of theorang-utan. ... Read more

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Excellent !!!
Seeing its forbidding price here I realize how lucky I was to pick up an Indonesian edition for just a few dollars...
An extremely throughly written book dealing with all imaginable aspects of orangutan conservation, pulling no punches when pointing out mistakes made by conservationists so far.
I can't recommend it highly enough to anyone seriously interested in the survival of these apes.
If you have already read more popular books like Birute Galdikas' "Reflections of Eden" or Linda Spalding's "A Dark Place in the Jungle" and are left wishing for more balanced, serious information you could find nothing better than this one.
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Orangutans are animals that are similar to humans in many ways.One similarity is their ability to communicate through language.This ability is being studied in a program at a zoo in Washington, D.C.What is the purpose of this program? How does it work? ... Read more

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Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books. Suddenly, fate grabs hold of his insignificant life and carries him off to Buenos Aires, to a conference on Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the modern detective story. There Vogelstein meets his idol, Jorge Lu-s Borges, and for reasons that a mere passion for literature cannot explain, he finds himself at the centre of a murder investigation that involves arcane demons, the mysteries of the Kabbala, the possible destruction of the world, and the Elizabethan magus John Dee's 'Eternal Orang-utan', which would end up by writing all the known books in the cosmos. Verissimo's small masterpiece is at once a witty literary tour de force and a brilliant mystery novel in its own right. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science World, published by Thomson Gale on February 5, 2007. The length of the article is 1974 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Orangutans in Peril: Asia's only species of great ape faces an uncertain future.(Around the World)
Author: Jacqueline Adams
Publication: Science World (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 5, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 63Issue: 9Page: 18(7)

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Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and life cycle of the orangutan, including information on why the species is threatened and what is being done to save it. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Describes the physical appearance and the behavior of the ape with the long red hair and the long arms that nearly touch the ground. ... Read more