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Orang-Outan

Educational resources on Orang-Outan

Orang-Outan or Pongo pygmaeus is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Endangered due to A2cd. IUCN Profile of the Orang-Outan

Academic web links for the Orang-Outan.


Chapter 13 - Teacher's Resources: ...and perseverance in following these solitary animals through difficult terrain yielded the first detailed understanding of orang-outan behavioral ecology. ...
http://biocrs.biomed.brown.edu/Books/Chapters/Ch%2013/Ch13-teachers.html id=spl-1

Biology and Man's Estimation of Himself: ...as ``pygmies'') were reported from East Africa and the ``wild man of the woods'' that Linnaeus was later to name Homo sylvestris orang-outan from South-East ...
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Medawar/mans-estimation.html id=spl-2

2Thomson1873: ...heights. They are of unusual size, and, viewed from a distance, bear some resemblance to the "mias," or orang-outan of Borneo. Among ...
http://academic.reed.edu/formosa/texts/Thomson1873.html id=spl-3

ANTHRO-L archives -- July 1999 (#62): I hadn't wanted to pick nits, but orang-outan actually is Malay for "Old Man of the Forest." Which makes sense when one recalls that males tend highly to be ...
http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9907&L=anthro-l&F=&S=&P=6821 id=spl-4

Revolution and Other Essays: The Somnambulists: ...instinct is bent, and see his eyes blaze like an angry cat's, hear in his throat the scream of wild stallions, and watch his fists clench like an orang-outan's ...
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writings/Revolution/somnambulists.html id=spl-5

ARTFL Project: Webster Dictionary, 1913: Often called simply orang . [Written also orang-outan , orang-utan , ourang-utang , and oran-utan .] &hand; It is over four feet high, when full grown, and has ...
http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.page.sh?PAGE=1008 id=spl-6

Primate Info Net: Common Names for the Order Primates: Wanaku Sacca Winki Wanakoe Yarke Yarque Thari-ki Pongo pygmaeus Danish: orangutang Dutch: Otang-oetans English: Orang-utan French: orang-outan German: Orang ...
http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/aboutp/taxonomy/common.html id=spl-7

CHAPTER 10: THE RETREAT FROM RECONSTRUCTION 465 by the plethora of ...: Prince Orang Outan, who had been selected to marry her, was even whiter than she. The Prince realized his superior ancestry because he had no caudal appendage. ...
http://image.ul.cs.cmu.edu/ulib/data/thousand/c6d/dab/f4a/6d0/514/9/TXT/00000475.txt id=spl-8

Mutual Aid: Chapter 2: And if we find among the highest apes two species, the orang-outan and the gorilla, which are not sociable, we must remember that both -- limited as they are ...
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/mutaidch2.html id=spl-9







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