{"id":5341,"date":"2015-02-17T17:43:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/?p=5341"},"modified":"2015-02-17T17:43:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:43:12","slug":"conservation-news-4-ways-animals-adapt-to-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/conservation-news-4-ways-animals-adapt-to-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation News: 4 Ways Animals Adapt to Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A female orangutan carrying a baby walks down a newly built logging road in East Kalimantan, Borneo. Photo by Brent Loken<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

by Jason Bittel<\/p>\n

for National Geographic<\/a><\/p>\n

Their habitat is disappearing due to widespread logging, but orangutans<\/a> seem to have found at least one tiny silver lining: traveling on timber roads instead of the more challenging tree canopies.<\/p>\n

Recently, ecologist Brent Loken<\/a> set up 41 camera-trap stations in the Wehea Forest on the Indonesian<\/a> island of Borneo (map)<\/a>. The traps were spread out across three blocks of the forest, each representing different levels of logging impact.<\/p>\n

In all three blocks, the cameras captured images of orangutans walking. This in itself was unusual, as it was previously thought the critically endangered<\/a> animals kept to the canopy whenever possible. (Watch: “Kalimantan’s Orangutans<\/a>.”)<\/p>\n

But most interesting was the fact that the great apes appeared to show a preference for walking along roads built by the timber industry, according to the study, published in the January issue of Oryx<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

This excerpt from a news article appeared in and is courtesy of National Geographic and can be read in its entirety here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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