Among the many kinds of animals at risk of extinction, orangutans are getting a relatively good amount of attention, so I hadn't felt the need to cover their plight so far, but with the recent court ruling in Indonesia putting the rarest of the three extant species in acute danger, I caved in and wrote my very first piece about them. Oh and the
"rang-tan" video may have played a role in that decision process as well.
The resulting feature is out today:
Hard times for orangutans
Current Biology Volume 29, issue 7, pages R225-R227, April 1, 2019
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The Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis) was only identified as a separate species in 2017 and is the most threatened of the three surviving species of orangutan. (Photo: Tim Laman/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).)
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