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Jun 4, 2011 3:32:24 GMT 10
Post by alienbeing on Jun 4, 2011 3:32:24 GMT 10
Hero orangutan spots a chick swimming in the zoo’s lake. Looks like the chick is in trouble, probably drowning. Orangutan tries to save the chick with a leaf but fails. Finally he managed to bring the little fella out of the water. He carefully examined his new friend
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Jun 4, 2011 7:35:45 GMT 10
Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2011 7:35:45 GMT 10
Breakfast?
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Jun 4, 2011 8:28:26 GMT 10
Post by boxfree on Jun 4, 2011 8:28:26 GMT 10
I think they're herbivores.
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Jun 4, 2011 8:31:38 GMT 10
Post by boxfree on Jun 4, 2011 8:31:38 GMT 10
Fruit makes up 65–90 percent of the orangutan diet. Fruits with sugary or fatty pulp are favored. Ficus fruits are commonly eaten, because they are easy to harvest and digest. Lowland dipterocarp forests are preferred by orangutans because of their plentiful fruit. Bornean orangutans consume at least 317 different food items that include young leaves, shoots, bark, insects, honey and bird eggs.[16][17] Orangutans are opportunistic foragers, and their diets vary markedly from month to month.[17] Bark is eaten as a last resort in times of food scarcity; fruits are always more popular. Orangutans are thought to be the sole fruit disperser for some plant species including the climber species Strychnos ignatii which contains the toxic alkaloid strychnine.[18] It does not appear to have any effect on orangutans except for excessive saliva production. Geophagy, the practice of eating soil or rock, has been observed in orangutans. There are three main reasons for this dietary behavior; for the addition of minerals nutrients to their diet; for the ingestion of clay minerals that can absorb toxic substances; or to treat a disorder such as diarrhea.[19] Orangutans use plants of the genus Commelina as an anti-inflammatory balm.[20 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan
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Jun 4, 2011 9:32:56 GMT 10
Post by theshee on Jun 4, 2011 9:32:56 GMT 10
Awww bless, Nearly broke its neck though yikes!
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Jun 4, 2011 12:42:44 GMT 10
Post by Wes Gear on Jun 4, 2011 12:42:44 GMT 10
Every time he put the chick up to his mouth I was waiting for the big chomp. What gets me is the thinking process of the orangutan. He thought about it, investigated the situation and them used a leaf as a tool to pull the chick out of the water. He then seemed concerned for the chicks health.
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Jun 4, 2011 20:20:06 GMT 10
Post by brillbilly on Jun 4, 2011 20:20:06 GMT 10
Why did darwin ashume we came from apes?.............."when its oviouse my parents have all the traits of Orangutans!lol
;)she how gentile that was,we should take notes!
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Jun 5, 2011 13:06:50 GMT 10
Post by (en)D(of) on Jun 5, 2011 13:06:50 GMT 10
I love nature,it never fails to astound me
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Jun 5, 2011 20:04:36 GMT 10
Post by concrete on Jun 5, 2011 20:04:36 GMT 10
Anyone remember the chimp and the frog?
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Jun 5, 2011 20:16:43 GMT 10
Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2011 20:16:43 GMT 10
I do have that saved somehwere, I was actually hoping that was the direction this was going to take.
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