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Movies

Monday July 6, 2009
Mom At Sixteen (2005) Seven, noon Back To The Planet Of The Apes (1981) Seven HD, noon The Falcon Out West (1944) ABC1, 2.05am (Wed)

Sporting Life

Tuesday November 11, 2008
IT'S World Orangutan Caring Week. Yes, that's right. And while the most dedicated activists are out saving the rainforests that the planet's highest-profile red-haired animals like to inhabit, we thought we could help raise awareness by paying homage to redheads in sport. They're a special bunch when you consider National Geographic's report that they make up less than 2% of the world's population. Yesterday, Australia's flame-topped sporting IT man Steve Hooker talked us through the business of ...

Pay Tv

Monday September 8, 2008
Rome Showcase, 8.30pm Departures: Jordan NatGeo Adventure, 8.30pm Orangutan Island Animal Planet, 7.30pm

Books

Saturday May 10, 2008
Troubling thoughts THINKERS OF THE JUNGLE: The orangutan report Gerd Schuster, Willie Smits and Jay Ullal H.F. Ullman, $59.95

Shelf Life - What's New

Tuesday March 27, 2007
1 The Little Munchkins five-piece melamine dinner set comes with mug, bowl, plate, fork and spoon in three designs, Flopsy the cow, Spike the orangutan and Toot the owl. $14.95 from House. Stockists: 1300 136 936.

Orphaned Orangutan In School

Tuesday July 19, 2005
SCHOOL'S in and lessons include climbing, finding fruit and exercising. The classroom is a jungle and the students monkey around all the time.

A Race Against Time

Sunday November 7, 2004
Willie Smits is working desperately to save the wild orangutan from extinction. He has only three years, writes Annie Lawson. Dr Willie Smits will give public lectures at the Australian Museum, Sydney on Tuesday, the Australian National University, Canberra, on Wednesday, and Melbourne University, Melbourne, on Saturday. Visit www.orangutans.com.au for information.

Green Ban Dilemma For Zoo

Saturday April 10, 1993
SYDNEYSIDERS have been given the stark choice between saving the endangered orangutan species or a piece of harbour foreshore bushland. Unionists have threatened to place a green ban on a proposed housing development site earmarked to finance a multi-million-dollar orang-utan exhibit at Ta

Zsa Zsa Goes Ape Over Policeman

Sunday November 26, 1989
ACTRESS Zsa Zsa Gabor, who is appealing against a jail sentence for slapping a policeman, Paul Kramer, has taken her revenge. She has bought a stuffed orangutan and named it - Paul Kramer. During the trial, she said: "I can't believe that in a country as great as ours a 6ft 4in