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Husky and hairy, with the flaming orange coloring of a bad dye job, the orangutan doesn't look like the most agile of primates. But in fact these great apes, native to the jungles of Malaysia and Indonesia, climb and swing nimbly through the canopy more than 100 feet in the air, their fleet-footed acrobatics allowing them to make their home in the treetops and access remote food sources, like the fruit at the very ends of branches. (Read "Kalimantan's Camp Orangutan...
...understand how orangutans swing, it helps to compare them to their primate cousins, the chimpanzees. Chimpanzees pull their bodies close to the tree branch as they move, but being relatively small, they can do that without worrying about the vibrations caused by their own body weight. If orangutans behaved that way, the vibrations would build dangerously, as they do on a suspension bridge...
...Arab land in the West Bank. Zar grew up in the West Bank. His outpost - named Havat Gilad after an elder brother killed by Palestinians - consists of a dozen shabby metal shacks and trailers inhabited by 20 families, with 40 to 50 children among them. A plastic slide and swing set stand on a weedy corner of the arid hilltop. Havat Gilad gets electricity from generators and water from a hilltop tank. The Israeli government evacuated the settlement five years ago but recently agreed to transport its children to school. "We are on a mission," Zar tells TIME. "We didn...
...Sotomayor is confirmed, her relationship with Kennedy will be crucial. He holds the swing vote on the court, usually siding with the conservative bloc but sometimes voting with the liberals. Former clerks describe Kennedy as particularly open to the influence of people with whom he interacts. "He likes personal stories and is affected by them," says one former Kennedy clerk. "And he's affected by his relations with people...
When done correctly, the dance will produce the illusion of walking forward while actually moving back. You can swing your arms with every step, or copy what Jackson did and hunch up your shoulders while grabbing onto your hat. You are wearing a hat, aren't you? You should probably wear...