The Ape That Builds 10,000 Beds

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1. 0:0010,000 BEDS. ONE APE.. This ape builds over 10,000 beds. That's not its smartest trick.
2. 0:04A NEW NEST NIGHTLY. Every evening, in ten minutes, it weaves a leafy bed. Even a roof for rain.
3. 0:0930 M UP. All of it 30 metres up, where one slip is fatal.
4. 0:12FLANGED MALE. A big male weighs up to 90 kilos. His call carries over a kilometre.
5. 0:16SUAQ BALIMBING. In one Sumatran forest, they make stick tools to pry out seeds guarded by stinging hairs.
6. 0:22LEARNED, NOT INSTINCT. Populations a few rivers away never learned it. That's culture.
7. 0:26A MAP IN MEMORY. The real genius? They memorise hundreds of fruit trees and head straight to ripe ones.
8. 0:32UNDER 800 LEFT. Fewer than 800 Tapanuli orangutans remain. All three species are critically endangered.
9. 0:37THE MAP IS THE FOREST. Clear the trees they know, and you erase the map they survive by.

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