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...footing - and their fingering - in the trees by moving with an irregular, offbeat rhythm that effectively counters the shaking caused by their considerable weight. "Orangutans rock flexible tree trunks from side to side with increasing magnitude until they can cross gaps in the [tree] canopy," says Susannah Thorpe, a bioscientist at the University of Birmingham in England and the lead author of the PNAS paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Tarzan, Orangutans Glide Through Trees | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

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