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POPS Orangutan ruse misleads predators more: Co-author Madeleine Hardus, from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, told BBC News: "This study clearly indicates that the abilities of great ape communication have been traditionally undervalued and that there may be traces of language precursors in our closest relatives, the great apes." She added that the findings suggest that primate calling behaviour is not purely based on instinct, but instead is socially learned.
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POPSRes Ipsa Loquitur: Environmentalists Red Faced Over Discovery of 2,000 New Red Apes It would appear that it would be difficult to miss 2,000 red apes swinging in the trees, but that is precisely what happened in Indonesian Borneo. The National Geographic News reports that conservationists have discovered 219 orang utan nests whilst combing through Indonesian Borneo’s East Kalimantan Province. The scientists surmised that the nests indicate that up to 2,000 new red apes could be living in 2 million hectares of rainforests in the rugged mountains of Indonesian Borneo.
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POPSVIP Safari - Jungle Island Miami Jungle Island Miami VIP Safaris are uniquely memorable experiences. There are only 2 - 10 people per safari, to ensure a very up close and personal experience with the animals in their own habitats.
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POPSHoneymoon in Borneo - Adventure Tour In Borneo you can see orangutans, lose yourself in dense jungle and experience colours and culture like nowhere else. If it’s adventure you seek, then look no further.
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POPSSouth East Asia Adventure Tours Riding an elephant through a jungle in Thailand, watching orangutans in Borneo, strolling the colorful, bustling markets of Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok or tasting the light and flavorful Vietnamese food from one of the small street stalls in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) is all part of exploring South East Asia. Since you are reading this you probably expect a little more than a picture-postcard from your visit to South East Asia. You have this urge to scratch the surface and dig a little deeper into the culture and soul of the place you are visiting...
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POPSStop Logging Indonesian Rainforest and Endangered Orangutan Habitat Please sign this petition to stop even more rainforest from being destroyed. :-/ Between 1985 and 2007, Sumatra island lost 12 million hectares of natural forest, a 48 percent loss in 22 years. By 2007, the island had only 30 percent natural forest cover (around 13 million hectares). The Indonesian Ministries of Forestry, Environment, Public Works and Interior, as well as the governors of all 10 Sumatran provinces, including Jambi, last year announced their collective commitment to protecting the areas of the island with “high conservation values.” The natural forest slated for destruction by APP – Bukit Tigapuluh – is a prime example of the high conservation value areas that the governors promised to protect. If the APP proposal for pulp paper production is accepted is will destroy the forest home of many species, and clearing on the ground could start as soon as 2010
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POPSAction Alert: Malaysian Oil Palm Threatens Brazilian Amazon
Dear Mr. Dato Ahmad Tarmizi Alias, I am writing to vigorously oppose the Malaysian government's intent, through its Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA) government agency, to profit from the clearfelling of the Brazilian Amazon's ancient biodiversity rich rainforests to establish toxic oil palm plantation monocultures. We are protesting FELDA's plans to develop with local partner Braspalma an oil-palm plantation project located in Manaus and Tefe, Brazil -- the heart of the Amazon. Malaysian tax-payer dollars are to be used to turn huge portions of the Amazon from a biodiverse, carbon rich paradise into a big lifeless, toxic monoculture and environmental disaster. Please ensure this project's approval is immediately withdrawn. Your government's long-time and continuing actions in support of industrial oil palm and logging in primary rainforests worldwide are having devastating consequences for communities, local soil and water, biodiversity and ecosystems,
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POPSThe Ape In American Bigotry "Every era of racial progress engenders a reversion to type. In last year’s presidential campaign, for example, likenesses of the black presidential candidate Barack Obama portrayed as a monkey became distressingly common."
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POPSOrangutan rides a jetski "So we discovered wearing children's lifejackets helps to give them confidence. Now some of them can even swim without their life jackets." Is this not one of the definition for intelligence? getting over basic instincts through education and learning.
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POPSA primate’s spontaneous whistling shocked scientists! Bonnie, a 30-year old female orangutan living at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington D.C., began whistling on hearing the sound made by her care-taker. This caught scientists’ attention because it was long argued that orangutans have no voluntary control over their vocals and that their sounds are purely emotional – more like a response to stimuli like predators.
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POPSBiofuel Boom Could Cause Extinction of Orangutans "If the immediate crisis in securing the future survival of the orangutan and the protection of national parks is not resolved, very few wild orangutans will be left within two decades," UNEP concluded in a report last year. "The rate and extent of illegal logging in national parks may, if unchallenged, endanger the entire concept of protected areas worldwide."
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