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- noun Plural form of
orang .
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Examples
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And if the reason we don't see genius chimps and orangs is that they couldn't be born with big (but still unfused) skulls like humans are, a factor in these changes are that they come attached to the ability to be born.
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It is from Lufengpithecus that modern orangs may have evolved.
On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman 2011
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I think that when the speciation of the modern orangs began, they split not into two but three species.
On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman 2011
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Gorillas, humans and orangs evolved after the flood.
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If dogs bears and seals are “so alike in morphology that there is no reason to see them as anything but a kind”, then obviously humans, chimps, gorillas and orangs are one kind as well.
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In zoos, orangs were notorious for getting out of their enclosures, and Bung had been no exception.
BELLY UP STUART GIBBS 2010
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If dogs bears and seals are “so alike in morphology that there is no reason to see them as anything but a kind”, then obviously humans, chimps, gorillas and orangs are one kind as well.
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In zoos, orangs were notorious for getting out of their enclosures, and Bung had been no exception.
BELLY UP STUART GIBBS 2010
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So instead they had their own little culture going, their own way of doing things that was different from the wild orangs.
Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part I | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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A new study reported in Science found that while chimps and orangs could count and add as well as human children, only humans were able to learn by watching others and seeing how they do things.
Philip Slater: New Scientific Study Reveals Bush is a Chimp 2008
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