the orangutan is facing extinction within the next 20 years because of logging

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orangutandesudo, dime si algo asi era lo que queriamos =o

I don't know whether to laugh or to cry.

beautiful Hilton was a small orangutan molested

Being betrayed by an orangutan

A monkey finds that he has his own, built-in source of refreshment.

Ths guy walks over walks over to another monkey and pushes him, we really are similar ;)

I never realized what huge nipples orangutans have!

This was taken at the Los Angeles zoo. I love watching animals.

If you look closely, you can see an Orangutan doing a line of crack in the background. And a Koala Bear shooting heroin.

Remind me NEVER to piss off an orangutan...

Seriously, who the hell hangs from the ceiling of a train to kick somebody.

The Terrific Fight ..... Fair Enough?

Sumo is a competitive contact sport where two wrestlers called rikishi face off in a circular area. The sport is popular in Japan and is surrounded by ceremony and   more...ritual. The Japanese consider sumo a gendai budo: a modern Japanese martial art, even though the sport has a history spanning many centuries. The sumo tradition is very ancient, and even today the sport includes many ritual elements, such as the use of salt for purification, from the days sumo was used in the Shinto religion.Sumo was mentioned in Nihon Shoki, one of the earliest texts in Japan, under its earlier name sumai, from the 8th century A.D. However, these early forms would not be sumo as it is known today, as in many cases the wrestling had relatively few rules and unarmed fights to the death were still referred to as "sumo".  less

The Bornean species of orangutans is highly endangered, and the Sumatran species is critically endangered, according to the IUCN Red List of mammals, and both are listed on Appendix I of CITES. The Borneo   more...population is estimated at about 50,000 in the wild, while the Sumatran species is estimated at 7000-7500 individuals. The orangutan is an official state animal of Sabah in Malaysia. Orangutan habitat destruction due to logging, mining and forest fires has been increasing rapidly in the last decade. A major factor in that period of time has been the conversion of vast areas of tropical forest to oil palm plantations, for the production of palm oil. Some UN scientists believe that these plantations could lead to the extinction of the species by the year 2012. Much of this activity is illegal, occurring in national parks that are officially off limits to loggers, miners and plantation development. There is also a major problem with the poaching of baby orangutans for sale into the pet trade, the trappers usually kill the mother to steal the baby. Major conservation centres in Indonesia include those at Tanjung Puting in Central Kalimantan, Kutai in East Kalimantan, Gunung Palung in West Kalimantan, and Bukit Lawang in the Gunung Leuser National Park on the border of Aceh and North Sumatra. In Malaysia, conservation areas include Semenggok in Sarawak, and the Sepilok Orang-utan Rehabilitation Centre near Sandakan in Sabah.  less

You wake up and see this! Momma with all her wittle babies.
(It's a lot cuter in person)






[I hope you're not bored by these last two stupid vids (then again you could just turn it off)   more...but I'm a really shy person so I'm not sure if you'll be actually "seeing/hearing" from me.]  less