educating about orangutans through facts photos and videos!

Borneo/Sumatra
Joined August 2021
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focusing in jungle school can be hard when there are cameras about. 📹BOS foundation
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Using bark as a sort of hat to stay cool in the sun 📸BOS foundation
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Baby jacqui begins learning how to build a nest, but is quickly distracted by another student. 📹BOS foundation
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Doing some light reading in the forest 📸BOS foundation
“Mind if I join the conversation?” 📸BOS foundation
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Niah observing her new sibling at the rostock zoo 📸kduewi
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Adib enjoying one of the playgrounds at the orangutan care centre. 📹Dr Birute
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Chuckie enjoying the pool on a hot summers day. 📹@CFGA
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Hoppy using strong jungle magic to summon a leaf from his mouth. 📹himawari (youtube)
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Cahaya being cute as usual 📹@CFGA
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Baby Roux and his mother Menari bonding after being reintroduced as Roux had to be hand reared for the first few months of his life 📸Audubon Zoo
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Asto and Asih exploring the trees at jungle school 📸TheOrangutanProject
Photos taken by the BOS foundation in 2020 of Alba, the worlds only known albino orangutan. She was released kept as a pet until she was rescued in 2017 and was returned to the wild a year later. She is still thriving in the wild today.
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The reason why her rescue and release are closer together is because she was around 5 years old when she was kept as a pet and had already developed a lot of the skills needed to survive in the wild.
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Happy birthday to Sunshine, the mother of cahaya! Today she turns 40 years old! 📸@CFGA
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Similarly to chimpanzees, evidence of culture has been observed in orangutans from different areas, mostly regarding their use of tools. For example it has been seen in some areas that orangutans will use leaves as gloves to reach fruit from thorny branches and to swat away bees.
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📹 Orangutan Foundation I could not find any photos or videos of the described behaviours so had to settle for stick tool use
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Taking a short break due to exams and my final few assignments before the year ends
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