Word: orangutans
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...know that humans and apes are virtually identical genetically. But if you find that scientific fact hard to accept on an emotional level, the work of James Mollison may help. For four years the English photographer traveled the world, making close-up portraits of gorillas, chimps and orangutans. The result is one of the most detailed and revealing visual studies ever made of the great apes. "Face to Face," an exhibition of 30 of these striking portraits, goes on display at London's Natural History Museum from May 28 to Sept. 18. Each over 6 ft. [1.8 m] tall...
...pictures and looks forward to doing big parts in small pictures. Ever reliable, never anyone's idea of a movie star, he has soldiered for Steven Spielberg in Saving Private Ryan, played a character known as Pig Vomit in the Howard Stern biopic Private Parts and portrayed a cowardly orangutan in the remake of Planet of the Apes. So when he was approached to play Harvey Pekar in American Splendor, it seemed to be just business as usual--except that Pekar, the notably depressive writer of comic books about his grim life and glum times, was also going...
...governments of Indonesia and Malaysia are trying to help preserve orangutan habitats by sending in police patrols, according to Knott. However, illegal logging still runs rampant as “logger bosses” encroach away from rivers’ edges and cut increasingly into the rainforest...
Knott has studied these animals for over 10 years in Gunung Palung National Park on Borneo, Indonesia, which is home to about one tenth of the world’s orangutan population. They are the world’s largest exclusively tree-dwelling mammal, and they have the longest birth interval—only giving birth every eight years...
Knott, who obtained her Ph.D. at Harvard in 1999, currently researches the evolutionary implications of two types of males in orangutan society...