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In 1991, we had our first breeding pairs and that was really an eye-opener because we thought 'well, this can be successful'.

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But multiple experts told AFP there are no captive breeding programmes for the species in Indonesia -- home to all the estimated 800 Tapanuli orangutans left in the world.

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"If every lion that was born survived to become an adult and breed, you'd run out of zebra and wildebeest pretty quick."

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That breeds an inner feeling of 'over my dead body, this will not happen again, we're going to make sure we win this'.

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A new breed of Democrats is willing to seek and wield power in unprecedented ways, too.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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