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Orangutans suffer midlife crisis too
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new study finds that chimpanzees and orangutans often experience a mid-life
crisis, suggesting the causes are inherent in primate biology and not specific
to human society.“We were just stunned” when data on the apes showed a U-shaped
curve of happiness, said economist Andrew Oswald of the University of Warwick in
England and a co-author of the paper, which was published on Monday in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.The U-shaped curve of
human happiness and other aspects of well-being are as thoroughly documented as
the reasons for it are controversial. Since 2002 studies in some 50 countries
have found that well-being is high in youth, plunges in mid-life and rises in
old age. This article originally appeared on
11/20/2012 and its courtesy of the
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SOCP rescues Sumatran orangutan from isolated forest in area tripa
Jakarta,
Indonesia - A critically endangered Sumatran orangutan was rescued from a
isolated forest area in western Indonesia where palm oil companies have been
illegally destroying the environment, a conservation group said Monday. The
Adult male orangutan, named Seuneam, had been trapped for several days in area
surrounded bye palm oil plantations and was isolated from the rest of the
surviving orangutan population in Tripa swamp in the Nagan Raya district. It was
found and safely evacuated over the weekend, the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation
Program (SOCP) said. This article originally appeared on FoxNews.com.
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