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Before the new discovery, scientists believed that on Earth there are only two types of orangutans. An international team of zoologists discovered on the island of Sumatra, a new species of orangutan which is already under threat of extinction. Their discovery, the researchers reported in the journal Current Biology. Up …

Orangutans can speak the language of the “air kiss”.The specialists, several years observing the communication of orangutans, I guess “tongue kisses”, which is used by these primates, points to the origins of our own language. According to scientists, the monkeys make sounds similar to our consonants, and thus pass each …