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orangutan

noun as in anthropoid

noun as in monkey

noun as in simian

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Over 90 percent of orangutan habitat has been destroyed in the last two decades alone.

From Salon

They compared human responses to the visual responses of five chimpanzees, two gorillas, and two orangutans at the Basel Zoo.

I have a very public love for orangutans.

And he said, “Vision of America? Ten years ago I was working with an orangutan. Now they think I’m Gandhi. I just took the best role available.”

A wounded orangutan recently made headlines for using a plant paste to heal an injury.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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