orangutan

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Their focus was on monkeys and apes that evolved in Africa, Europe, and Asia, including chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans.

From Science Daily

She had been orphaned at nine months old at the Metro Richmond Zoo, when her own mother had died unexpectedly from heart failure, and had never seen another orangutan mother raise a baby.

From Washington Post

An orangutan swings through while her baby reposes on a branch nearby.

From New York Times

In the videos they analyzed, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos hung on with their hands to ropes or vines and turned through the air at dizzying speeds.

From Scientific American

If the zebra is being attacked, the orangutan is being killed, the goat’s being killed, I love hearing the audience react to it and then be surprised by their own reaction.

From New York Times