Language. Intelligence plays a big part, but the happy arrangement of human vocal tracts enabling us to produce a wide variety of vocables is equally important. Because we can make such a variety of sounds and inflections we are able to express and develop ideas and emotions in a far richer manner than our primate cousins.

“Ape Genius” promises to be an amazing show! People who are interested in this type of programming can see some ape geniuses every week on Animal Planet’s series ‘Orangutan Island’. It’s filmed at the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rehabilitation Center and follows the lives of several dozen orphaned orangutans as they take their final steps back into the wild…

My non-profit organization Orangutan Outreach raises awareness of the plight of wild orangutans (they’re on the brink of a senseless extinction due to palm oil and deforestation) and fundraises for several orangutan projects on the ground in Borneo. I invite all your readers to visit our website: http://redapes.org
Maybe you’d even like to adopt our baby orangutans???

Keep up the great work. I love your site!

Best, Rich

Richard Zimmerman
Director, Orangutan Outreach
http://redapes.org
Reach out and save the orangutan!

Well, at the top of my list is that we don’t, as a rule, eat our own excrement. But give me a minute or two. I’m sure I can come up with a few other list items.