View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-smart-are-orangutans-lu-gao Along with humans, orangutans belong to the Hominidae family tree, which stretches back 14 million years. But it's...
========== Fu Manchu was one of the most
notorious escape artistsat the Omaha Zoo in the 1960s.But he wasn't a performer,he was an orangutan.The keepers who locked
his enclosure every nightwere baffled to find him outside
the next dayhanging out with friends in a tree,or sunning on the roof.Only after installing cameras
did they realizeFu Manchu had been picking the lockwith a metal wire that he kept hidden
under his cheek pouch.The keepers shouldn't have been
surprised at Fu Manchu's cunningness.Along with our other great ape cousins,the gorillas,chimps,and bonobos,they belong to our Hominidae
family tree,which stretches back 14 million years.But it's not just their striking red hairthat makes orangutans unique
among our cousins.As the only gre...
