Orangutan

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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The 2019 winners and finalists of the Travel Photographer of the Year Awards have been revealed. PBS recently gave viewers a look at MIT Museum's new The Polaroid Project instant photography exhibition. Researchers with IBM and MIT have published a new demo…

The amazing winning and shortlisted images from the 2019 Travel Photographer of the Year competition have been revealed - and they are guaranteed to enchant, fascinate, and prompt the jaw to generally drop.  Photographers from 144 countries submitted over 20…

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