4 Clever (and Kind of Sad) Ways Animals Adapt to Humans
From songbirds to manatees, some animals are taking advantage of how people change their environment.
Their habitat is disappearing due to widespread logging, but orangutans seem to have found at least one tiny silver lining: traveling on timber roads instead of the more challenging tree canopies.
Recently, ecologist Brent Loken set up 41 camera-trap stations in the Wehea Forest on the Indonesian island of Borneo (map). The traps were spread out across three blocks of the forest, each representing different levels of logging impact.
In all three blocks, the cameras captured images of orangutans walking. This in itself was unusual, as it was previously thought the critically endangered animals kept to the canopy whenever possible. (Watch: "Kalimantan's Orangutans.")
But most interesting was the fact that the great apes appeared to show a
