One Casualty of the Palm Oil Industry: An Orangutan Mother, Shot 74 Times

Re:One Casualty of the Palm Oil Industry: An Orangutan Mothe... by rolltiide on Saturday June 29, 2019 @11:36AM (#20313154)

wow they can take 74 shots and live

It would be interesting if humans could have tougher skin layers like many mammals do

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Re:One Casualty of the Palm Oil Industry: An Orangutan Mothe... by radicalbyte on Saturday June 29, 2019 @11:39AM (#20313178)

Those slugs were from an air rifle, not a proper gun.

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Re:One Casualty of the Palm Oil Industry: An Orangutan Mothe... by fnord77 on Saturday June 29, 2019 @11:38AM (#20313170)

they were airgun pellets which embedded into her body as shown by the x-rays in the article

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Re:One Casualty of the Palm Oil Industry: An Orangutan Mothe... by rolltiide on Saturday June 29, 2019 @11:58AM (#20313281)

oh, whoops!

I had only read the part at the beginning that made it clear she was alive

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Re:One Casualty of the Palm Oil Industry: An Orangutan Mothe... by raws on Saturday June 29, 2019 @12:16PM (#20313364)

She's alive, her baby died. :/

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