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Photo Credit: Ann Batdorf, Smithsonian’s National Zoo
In this photo: Batang
For the first time in 25 years, staff at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo are making preparations for the highly anticipated birth of an endangered Bornean orangutan. With a breeding recommendation from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Species Survival Plan (SSP), the 19-year-old parents to be, female Batang and male Kyle, bred in January. On Feb. 2, a common human pregnancy test confirmed that Batang had successfully conceived. Earlier today, the Zoo announced Batang’s pregnancy through a broadcast via Facebook Live of her ultrasound; it will continue to provide weekly updates on Batang through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #OrangutanStory.
Zoo veterinarians have conducted bi-weekly ultrasounds since Feb. 2 and are encouraged that the ultrasounds have shown fetal growth and development, heightening hopes that Batang will give birth for the first time. They are cautiously optimistic that she will deliver a healthy baby around mid-September. However, just like any animal pregnancy, there is a possibility that miscarriage, stillbirth or a complication could occur.
“All of our perseverance and planning paid off when we confirmed Batang’s pregnancy,” said Dr. Meredith Bastian, curator of primates and member of the Orangutan SSP Steering Committee. “Watching her fetus develop over the past few months has been incredibly exciting, and we’re making every effort to ensure our efforts come to fruition.”
For the past three years, keepers have been acclimating Batang to the experiences of motherhood and training her to care for an infant. Building upon behaviors Batang has learned through routine training sessions, keepers presented her with a plush, bean-shaped pillow and an orangutan stuffed animal to simulate a baby. Keepers trained her to hold the “fake” baby upright, carry it around the enclosure and return the pillow baby to keepers through a specially designed “baby box” when asked. Should animal care staff need to evaluate a real orangutan baby’s health, this training would help staff retrieve the infant in a way that is safe and not stressful for the animals. Batang has also been trained to use a breast pump for milk collection in the event she is unable to successfully nurse.
“Training increases the likelihood that orangutan mothers will care for their infants,” said Becky Malinsky, assistant curator of primates. “This training is especially important for a first time mother, like Batang. It is our goal for the infant to be raised by her mother, learning how to be an orangutan from Batang and the other orangutans at the zoo.”
In the event that Batang is unable or unwilling to care for her infant, keepers are training females Bonnie and Iris to act as surrogate mothers. They receive similar training to Batang, but with a slight twist: keepers ask them to bring the pillow baby and present it to the keepers for bottle feedings. Batang is also trained to present the infant for bottle feedings if she is unable to nurse. As a last resort, keepers will prepare a nursery in the event it is necessary for them to hand-raise the baby with the goal of returning the infant to its mother or surrogate as soon as possible.
Native to Indonesia, orangutans live in the tropical rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. For the past seven decades, humans have cleared land that was originally orangutan territory in order to meet the growing demand for palm oil products, fast-growing pulp wood and food crops leaving orangutans in competition with one another for space, food and mates. Scientists estimate that in the past 75 years, the number of wild orangutans has decreased by 80 percent. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the Bornean orangutan as endangered and the Sumatran orangutan as critically endangered.
Visitors can see the Zoo’s six orangutans daily at the Great Ape House and the Think Tank. At the Great Ape House, visitors can meet a great ape keeper to learn about the fascinating world of apes at 11:30 a.m. daily. At Think Tank, staff and interpretive volunteers perform daily demonstrations and lead discussions on research in cognitive science, highlighting current and ongoing Zoo studies at 1:30 p.m. Visitors can also see the orangutans traveling on the O-Line on warm-weather days in the late morning and early afternoon.
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If you're feeling stuck, help is on the way. In this creative and hands-on guide, illustrator Lee Crutchley presents fun and empowering ways to get those creative juices flowing. Whether it's perfectionism, procrastination, or plain old fear that's holding you back, get ready to get inspired.
I helped give a tour of Mission Control today.
This photo appears in a children's encyclopedic book called "Mission to the Moon" published by Weldon Owen. Pretty cool... I'm pubished!!
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Another one from this evening in June, shameless anthropomorphising but I've never seen an animal look so sad, that look is almost accusatory as well; gives me goosebumps.
With one week left of slaughtering badgers there's an urgent need for people to join the friendly camps and patrols in Gloucestershire and especially Somerset. The Gloucestershire cull has been a complete farce because of all the brave souls stopping the killers, things in Somerset though haven't gone as well for our beautiful badgers. There's every chance the killing will be extended into November, just donating a pound towards petrol money helps to protect our blameless badgers : )
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HELP! What is this dude?? This was on the beach. What in the world do you think it is? It was about the size of a pinky finger.
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Order of the Arrow Service Corps member Andrew Clinard of Middletown, Ohio, 18, helps fellow arrowmen spread out cases of bottled water at the arena in preparation for the evening's arena show at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, Saturday July 31, 2010. Photo by M.P. King
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Can anybody tell me where I can find diagrams for this model?
This is a model made from two squares: one for the top half and one for the bottom half - the legs slide into the torso but there's no lock.
There's a nice older lady at church: she's the wife of a Japanese minister and speaks just slightly more English than I do Japanese. I figure I'm doing well if I get one word in five or six when I'm talking to her, so I nod and smile a lot.
She knows I do origami, so one day she grabs me right after the Sunday service and says she wants to teach me origami. Right there in the pew, she pulls out a bunch of red paper and starts showing me this Santa model, only she doesn't quite remember and her coordination's not quite up to snuff since she had a stroke earlier this year...plus of course I can't understand what she's saying.
It sounds like she wants to give these to the Sunday School teachers for Christmas...and somehow by sitting there and being shown how, I seem to have agreed to help her. I *think* she wants 60.
She gave me a baggie of models that were already folded and some paper...but no two are quite folded alike, so I'm not sure what this guy is really supposed to look like. Anybody recognize him?
I tried reverse engineering but it would be a lot less frustrating to have diagrams and landmarks for the vague squish folds I have now.
Off to hunt in the database, but that doesn't always have photos so I figured I'd try asking here too..
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5th grade; for help with thinking of topics to write about in reading journal.
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Celia Beron is a Dean’s Honored Graduate in Biology. She is graduating with an Honors Degree in Biology under the Dean’s Scholars program. She is being recognized for her extensive research conducted under the supervision of Dr. Jon Pierce-Shimomura in the area of neuroscience.
She began her research in the Pierce-Shimormura lab in the Spring of 2013, and has worked on two distinct projects utilizing the C. elegans nematode as a model system. Most recently she has been working on a project to discern the neural and molecular mechanism for how animals sense the Earth’s magnetic field. To this end, Celia has become familiar with behavioral testing, the physics of electromagnetism, animal husbandry, as well as genetics and molecular techniques. In this, she has discovered that nematodes use the Earth’s magnetic field to migrate vertically in the soil. This amazing finding has secured her place as a contributing author in a manuscript recently accepted to the journal eLife along with a second publication in peparation. She is also the lead researcher on a project examining muscle function. She conducted a forward genetic screen to identify new genetic targets that could restore function to the muscles of people afflicted by muscular dystrophy. To date, Celia has isolated several genes that, then mutated, restore some of the motor ability to animals modeling muscular dystrophy. She is co-first author on this work, which was accepted by the journal Genes, Brain and Behavior. Finally, she has been working on further projects to understand the genetic components underlying the variation in this behavior in C. elegans isolated from around the world as part of her Honors Thesis.
Her work has been recognized with numerous awards including a Trainee Professional development Award from the Society for Neuroscience, Barry Goldwater Fellowship Honorable Mention, and the Luminex Award for Excellence in Biology Research. She also received the best poster award at the UT Neuroscience Symposium, beating out competition composed almost exclusively of graduate students and postdocs.
Celia has been a part of the Longhorn Entrepreneurship Agency for the past three years to help enhance the culture for entrepreneurship on campus. She is a member of Kappa Delta sorority. This summer she will work at Janelia Research Campus, and in the fall she will start work on her Ph.D. with a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship in the neuroscience program at Harvard.