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Swinging Orangutan
No large animal is quite as good at living
in the treetops as the orangutan. It’s Catching the Ferry
amazingly agile, swinging from tree to Orangutans are quick to spot problems
tree with grace and precision. It mainly and solve them. When a river blocks
uses its long, strong arms and clever their path, they may use a floating
hands to grasp vines and branches to log or even borrow a boat to help
move along. But it holds on with its feet them cross. Some orangutans
too. Orangutans stay in the trees most in reserves have even worked
of their lives, even finding rainwater to out by themselves how to
drink from leaves and cavities. dip their hands in water
to use as paddles!
Orangutan Spearfishing?
In 2008, a photograph was taken of an orangutan
using a stick as a spear to try and catch fish in
a river. It failed to catch any, but even the idea
of spearfishing is pretty clever. And some
orangutans have been seen checking the depth
of a river with long sticks, to test if it is safe to
wade across.
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