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How to use orang-utan in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word orang-utan? Here are some examples.

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Our first morning cruise brought us a close encounter with an impressive male orang-utan.
By chance, we spot an orang-utan in a solitary tree.
A part from the large mammals like the elephant, the rhino and the orang-utan, a huge number of insects, birds and bat species live in the rainforests.
She will not have the intelligence of a human being or an orang-utan of the same age, but she will be able to learn by herself, and, unusually for a robot, she will have her own imagination.
We need to look for a solution together to save the orang-utan.
It was found that the chimpanzee and the orang-utan both moved their limbs out sideways from their bodies.
There, a centre run by Biruté Galdikas, a famous primatologist, rehabilitates orang-utan refugees.
This is now the main cause of deforestation there and it is likely soon to become responsible for the extinction of the orang-utan in the wild.
The orang-utan escaped by pulling a tile from the roof of the enclosure yesterday afternoon, then climbed through the hole to make a break for freedom.
Stephanie Quayle has made sculptures of langur monkeys, who look out the window into the street, black mandrills and an orang-utan.
The extension of palm oil and soy crops is often done to the detriment of primary forests, climate change, certain species such as the orang-utan, and under unfavourable circumstances for the local populations.
This female orang-utan is able to tie and untie even complex knots.
Nobody really taught her how to do it and no other orang-utan does it.
If the Indonesian tropical forest goes, so will the orang-utan.
Chris fulfils an ambition by meeting a giant anteater, as well as getting close to an orang-utan and a wild jaguar.
In Indonesia, illegal logging has destroyed more than half of the country's forests, and is driving species like the Sumatran rhino, tiger and orang-utan towards extinction.
She operated and saved the life of an orang-utan raised in chains, former dancing bears and 20 slow loris rescued from the black market pet trade.
Examples from Classical Literature
Balzac has compared the average husband to an orang-utan trying to play the violin.
Stories are told by natives of the orang-utan seizing and carrying away young Dyak girls to their dens in the forests.
It was along this tramway that Mr. Wallace shot the orang-utan mentioned in an earlier part of this chapter.
An orang-utan weighs about the same as a man, but its brain weighs only a pound, against three pounds for a man.
Meanwhile it has been decided, humanely, not to break the news to the orang-utan himself until the weather gets cooler.
My own comparisons shew that of the material at my disposal the mandible of an orang-utan comes nearest to the Mauer jaw.
And finally, crossing Makassar Straits, we come to Borneo, the habitat of the head-hunter and the orang-utan.
Seemingly replicating the iconic superhero scene where Spidey kisses Mary Jane, Dudley Zoo's four-year-old Bornean orang-utan Sprout puckers up to his mum Jazz.
The Orang-utan has no uvula as in Man and in the Chimpanzees.
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