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[monkeywire] Orangutans increasingly vulnerable to extinction

From: Josh Greenman <joshg1973 AT yahoo.com>
To: Monkeywire <monkeywire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [monkeywire] Orangutans increasingly vulnerable to extinction
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 17:33:29 -0800 (PST)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040312/ids_photos_wl/r174738150.jpg

Eti, an orangutan mother, grooms her baby Kirana, a three-year-old female at
the Taman
Safari park in Bogor, West Java on March 12, 2004. Orangutans, which breed
slower than
any other primate, produce a baby once every 7-8 years. Mass deforestation in
their
native Sumatra and Borneo has brought the primates extremely vulnerable to
extinction. RETUERS/Supri

[monkeywire] Orangutans increasingly vulnerable to extinction, Josh Greenman, 03/14/2004