Rethinking the orangutan: How 70,000 years of human interaction have shaped an icon of wild nature
6/27/2018 11:30:00 AM
The evolution of the orangutan has been more heavily influenced by humans than was previously thought, new research reveals.
Orangutan are living in heavily disturbed landscape dominated by oil palm plantations in the Lower Kinabatangan
floodplain, Malaysian Borneo [Credit: HUTAN/KOCP (Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Programme)]
Professor Mike Bruford, of Cardiff University, was part of the team of scientists shedding light on the development of the critically endangered species. Their findings offer new possibilities for orangutan conservation.
One of humans' closet living relatives, the orangutan has become a symbol of nature's vulnerability in the face of human actions and an icon of rainforest conservation.
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