Word: orangutans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reproductory system 'o me," Hal admits that some credit for passing the course must be given to the final paper he wrote on the vocalizations of the Great Apes. Standing in a bathtub (to get the right reverberations) Hal and his father recorded sounds made by the orangutan and the chimpanzee. Hall is particularly proud of his reproduction of the copulation call of the female gibbon--he feels it was his masterpiece...
...orangutan-Malay for "man of the forest"-is badly in need of a helping hand. Once these big red-haired primates (an adult male stands about 5 ft. tall, weighs 150 lbs.) inhabited the jungles of Borneo and Sumatra by the tens of thousands. Today, only 6,000 or so are left. Spreading farms and logging operations have driven the survivors ever deeper into the rain forest; native hunters shoot the mothers and carry off the young orangutans for illegal sale to foreign zoos (price: as much as $4,000 apiece). To save this vanishing Asian cousin of Africa...
PLANET OF THE APES. This science-fiction film represents the expenditure of $1.000,000 to make Maurice Evans look like an orangutan, Kim Hunter and Roddy Mc-Dowall look like chimpanzees, a large cast look like other assorted members of the monkey family, and Charlton Heston look like an astronaut...
...Wurz. The charmer of the production is Wurz's dimpled dumpling of a wife, played by Maxine Greene, 23, making her Manhattan debut-as a human being; her previous appearances have been in The Wizard of Oz as Toto the dog, and in Spurt of Blood as an orangutan...
...dumb men but clever monkeys, hideous primates in leather jackets who periodically catch humans in nets for laboratory experiments or to put in cages at the local zoo. Heston's companions are quickly done in, and soon he is pleading for his life before the head orangutan (Maurice Evans), who wants him gelded and then melded into the tribe of cavemen. Aided by two empathetic chimpanzees (Roddy MacDowall and Kim Hunter), Heston eventually makes his escape across forbidden territory where no monkey hand has ever set foot. There he learns the dreadful secret of why evolution has been reversed...