New Orangutan Population Found In Indonesia

Unfortunately that boost is to the most populous species. We need to find remaining pockets of Sumatran Orangs.

And might I just add this is just another case of oops - we missed a couple thousand during the last census (African Elephants, Western Lowland Gorillas, now Orangs - I wonder who's next)!
 
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ColumbusZoo001 said:
Unfortunately that boost is to the most populous species. We need to find remaining pockets of Sumatran Orangs.

And might I just add this is just another case of oops - we missed a couple thousand during the last census (African Elephants, Western Lowland Gorillas, now Orangs - I wonder who's next)!
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Actually this is a much rarer subspecies of Borneon Orangutan, the Black Borneon or Pongo pymaeus morio. And more findings could be coming in the near future of the Sumatrans. And hopefully a lot more "oops" are in order when it comes to any rare species in the wild. Isn't that better than oops - there aren't as many as we had originally thought?:)
 
Blackduiker

Blackduiker said:
Actually this is a much rarer subspecies of Borneon Orangutan, the Black Borneon or Pongo pymaeus morio. And more findings could be coming in the near future of the Sumatrans. And hopefully a lot more "oops" are in order when it comes to any rare species in the wild. Isn't that better than oops - there aren't as many as we had originally thought?:)
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As a matter of fact, on page 2 of this article it does mention a recent find of several hundred Sumatran Orangs as well!:D
 
Blackduiker said:
And hopefully a lot more "oops" are in order when it comes to any rare species in the wild. Isn't that better than oops - there aren't as many as we had originally thought?
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Absolutely. I thought that was very positive news.
 
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