Orangutan

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The natural world never fails to surprise us, and this moving encounter between an orangutan and a man in Borneo has melted hearts all over the world.Amateur photographer Anil Prabhakar captured the fleeting moment, in which one of the Indonesian island's critically endangered apes stretched out its hand to help…

(CNN)The natural world never fails to surprise us, and this moving encounter between an orangutan and a man in Borneo has melted hearts all over the world.Amateur photographer Anil Prabhakar captured the fleeting moment, in which one of the Indonesian island's critically endangered apes stretched out its hand to help…

Jess Hardiman in NewsLast updated 9:32 AM, Friday February 07 2020 GMTAn incredible photo managed to capture the very moment an orangutan tried to help a man in Borneo, who was stood in a river searching for snakes - many of which pose a threat to primates.In the image, the gentle beast…

This is the touching moment an orangutan tries to lend a helping hand to a man searching for the animals’ sworn enemies – snakes. The striking image appears to show the great ape reaching out to assist the man, who is stood in a river. The picture was taken in…

There was a dead lizard in the mail. But that wasn’t the unusual part. Australia’s wildlife “coroner”, forensic veterinary pathologist Dr Lydia Tong, performs hundreds of autopsies on native and exotic animals each year, many of them from zoos; others, such as this shingleback lizard, the victim of a multibillion-dollar…

From a low-flying helicopter, conservationist Marc Ancrenaz peered down at the homogeneous rows of trees in a Borneo palm oil plantation and spotted something that made his heart sink: an orangutan nest. Until that moment 15 years ago, he had never seen one so out of place, away from its…

An orangutan found starving and with gunshot wounds after fire destroyed its home has been returned to the wild as experts warned Earths most biodiverse ecosystems are facing a crisis of destruction. Epen, as rescuers named the animal, was released with gun …

Overall Winner, Young Shepherd, Fada-Ngourma, Burkina Faso Photo: Katy Gomez Catalina, Spain - Travel Photographer of the Year TPOTY Jury duty must have posed considerable challenges for the members to choose the winning images capturing our glorious planet…

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