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| Tango01 | 20 Nov 2017 9:37 p.m. PST |
…most threatened great apes in the world' "Scientists have long recognized six living species of great ape aside from humans: Sumatran and Bornean orangutans, eastern and western gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos. But researchers have now made it seven, based on a collection of evidence showing that an isolated population of orangutans living in Sumatra is actually its own unique species. They've named the new species the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis)…"
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| Alxbates | 26 Nov 2017 10:01 a.m. PST |
It's a damn shame that these orangutans and the other recently discovered ape subspecies, the Bili Ape, seem likely to go extinct before they're even studied by modern researchers. The likely extinction of all the great apes in the wild will, I think, go down in history as one of the great tragedies of our time. |
| Tango01 | 27 Nov 2017 11:22 a.m. PST |
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