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- bixby1, on 10/11/2008, -0/+30'Pulled out of a dumpster' That's just beyond sad.
- AmericanGunner, on 10/11/2008, -0/+23Their would be no doubt in my mind that the orangutans would make it, if instead of willie smits, it was Will Smith saving them.
- ScottMcIntyre, on 10/11/2008, -0/+18A great article which looks at how Willie Smits has saved more than 1600 orangutans in two decades. Brilliant work. Educating the locals who hunt them is a key part of Smits' work. One local, who hunted the orangutans said this-
QFA:"There was a pause. "I stopped hunting them," one man suddenly declared, tears streaming down his cheeks. "I shot at one and thought I'd missed. When she came down, I thought she was going to attack me. Instead she laid her baby at my feet and fell dead. After that, I couldn't do it anymore." - maraishein, on 10/11/2008, -1/+16Great Story!
- badwithcomputer, on 10/11/2008, -3/+18orangutan is a funny sounding word
- numberneal, on 10/11/2008, -0/+9and became humans
- lafinachu, on 10/12/2008, -0/+9What an awesome story. I'm glad that guy rescued the Orangutang from the dumpster. Folk who abuse animals, or people deserve to be locked up for life.
- thrikulam, on 10/12/2008, -0/+7According to Wiktionary:
"Malay: orang utan 'forest man'" - Tsezu, on 10/12/2008, -0/+4To explain it further:
"Orang" means human or person
"Hutan" means forest/jungle
So "Orang Hutan" means "forest person," thus the word "Orangutan"
I know this cause I'm Indonesian myself. - hammer310, on 10/12/2008, -0/+3With that adorable thumbnail even satan himself would want to save the orangutangs.
- Lula87, on 10/12/2008, -1/+4I wouldn't be surprised if Sarah Palin had aerial hunted a few Orangutans in her day.
- spaceman84, on 10/12/2008, -0/+3Douchebag.
- richlw, on 10/12/2008, -0/+2Am I the only one who saw the name of the man and thought Will Smith?
- str3ama, on 10/12/2008, -0/+2you can contribute by not buying products with palm oil in it, much of their habitats in areas like Sumatra are destroyed to make room for Palm farms so that companies like Dove can produce scented soap.
- Alphonze, on 10/12/2008, -0/+2you are a douchebag. how the f*ck can you be pessimistic about orangutans? seriously.
- lca473, on 10/12/2008, -1/+3There, not their.
- DrSnugglebunny, on 10/12/2008, -0/+2If orangs go extinct we'll have lost our humanity in the process.
- heathwater, on 10/12/2008, -0/+1It's been a long time since I've read a Reader's Digest. Thanks for the great article link and reminding me about them.
- inactive, on 10/12/2008, -0/+1Apa kabar? Saya orang bule, tapi sudah lancar berbahasa Indonesia karena belajar de sana waktu mahasiswa s2. Artikel ini buay saya sedih. Sudah ke sumatera dua kali. Lingkungan di sana indah sekali.
- livefromheaven, on 10/12/2008, -1/+2Big Willie Style
- takatoo, on 10/12/2008, -0/+1alamak
- brishchik, on 10/12/2008, -0/+1This kind of stories makes me so sad. We're destroying the whole damn nature only because of greed. We have all the technology that can be used to reduce our effects drastically on nature.
- migshark, on 10/12/2008, -0/+1That's practically impossible these days. Trust me. nearly everything in your supermarket aisle for bathroom stuff will have palm oil in it. Even foods have it. Soaps and things which say that they exclude sodium lauryl sulphates, will instead have sodium lauryl sarcosinate. Just as nasty.
- Freemerryjane, on 10/13/2008, -0/+0Im no fundie but I pray to god everynight I can have the money some day to help this and many other animal causes. I do. This makes me so sad. It makes me hate the human race.
- DeviantDragon, on 10/12/2008, -1/+1Orangutan, not orangutang. Orangutang is a delicious powdered monkey-flavored beverage that's a kick in the glass.
- inactive, on 10/12/2008, -2/+1Ohohoho! Is funny because you use the monkey name and drink name that uses the monkey together. Ohohoho!
- empiric, on 10/12/2008, -2/+0See you later.
And no, there's nothing you can do about it. It's called "time". - empiric, on 10/12/2008, -7/+0The orangutans cannot be saved. Neither can the "savers". It's called "entropy".
Regardless of how much personal association one might have with them, such that helping them solely is performed for a futile helping of oneself.
The only thing the article got right is the initial analogy.
"There is a grapevine planted apart from the Father. Because it is not sound, it will be pulled up by the roots and destroyed."
If you're going to object--seriously, stop impeding evolution.
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