Disaster for world rarest known species of ape

Tuesday 16th June 2026

This is particularly bad news for the relatively newly discovered Tapanuli orangutan, and has severe connotations for a sum of the worlds had prothesis but undiscovered ape species, such as the orange pendek thatalso lives on Sumatra. JD

.World’s rarest ape just lost 7% of its population in one go – here’s the reason – Daily Star

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Jonathan Downes
Cryptozoologist, naturalist, musician, singer, composer, poet, novelist and Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology since 1992. Jon was born in Portsmouth in 1959 and spent his infancy in Nigeria and his childhood in Hong Kong. His wife Corinna died of cancer in 2020, leaving him with two stepdaughters and an eleven year old granddaughter called Evelyn.