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Borneo and Sumatra burn as forest fires rage Borneo and Sumatra burn as forest fires rage mongabay.com October 4, ... New study maps the fishmeal factories that supply the world’s fish farms.
Image and caption courtesy of Broich 2011 Kalimantan and Sumatra lost 5.4 million hectares, or 9.2 percent, of their forest cover between 2000/2001 and 2007/2008, reveals a new satellite-based […] ...
Monopoly of the male orangutan: Comparative field observations on Sumatra and Borneo. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 17, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 03 / 130305080648.htm.
In the forests of Borneo and Sumatra orangutans are an endangered primate population so similar and yet different from man and each other, according to a recently published genome analysis of the ...
Orangutans are the only great apes in Asia, making their homes on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra in the Malay archipelago. Orangutans are arboreal, meaning they primarily live in the trees.
Borneo’s primate community is exceptionally rich—the Earth Expeditions course site along the Kinabatangan River in Sabah (East Malaysia) is home to ten primate species, including proboscis monkeys, ...