Sumatran flood disaster may have wiped out key Tapanuli orangutan population

Mongabay
Dec 12, 2025, 6:18 am420 ptsTop
JAKARTA — A Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape, has been discovered dead in mud and log debris in a village in northern Sumatra — a grim sign of how severely recent floods and landslides may have devastated the species’ fragile habitat. A group of scientists has described the catastrophe…

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