A baby whale receives 12 litres (3 gallons) of milk in less than 5 minutes and nurses forty times a day.
Rumble in the jungle
Rumble in the jungle Logging activities being carried on in the north
of Sumatra, Indonesia, are threatening a unique population of
tool-using orang-utans. Researchers say that the logging could kill
the population by destroying their habitat and could, in any event,
endanger their unique social behaviour and tool use. Orang-utans
are found only in Borneo and Sumatra, Indonesia, and they are among
the closest relatives to human beings. The Sumatras orang-utans
have developed tools for eating honey, insects and seeds. They dip
twigs, which they have made into probes, into trees to catch
insects and obtain hard-to-reach honey. They also use the twigs to
dig seeds out of fruit that is covered with stinging
hairs. 3 JULY 1999, P. 24
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