Tag: Orangatans

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April 17, 2012

How Orangutan Engineers Build Safe and Comfortable Treetop Beds

"evolution of intelligence can be driven by the need to deal with the mechanical environment, rather than the prevailing orthodoxy that it’s only the social environment that’s important"

December 20, 2012

Is Orangutan Culture Made of Ideas?

Like humans and chimpanzees, communities of orangutans have different traditions.

December 19, 2012

Tool-Using Orangutans Learn Like Humans

When do orangutans start to form ideas about their world—specifically, how and when to use certain tools?