Talk:Orangutans in popular culture

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Has been created to prevent edit wars and uncivil behaviour on the Orangutan article - please give this article a chance and provide positive and constructive contributions! SatuSuro 02:17, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

I think this is the oddest and most niche wikipedia entry... I like it. --129.11.198.174 (talk) 20:14, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Orangutans as friends
I removed the below. It's vandalism and rather ludicrous in tone and content.

In 1993, Bogar Reyes (Serbian Cyrillic Богар Рейес), a Mexican inventor, electrical engineer and physicist started working in the Orangutan Friendship fields before emigrating to 'Murica. He soon struck out on his own with financial backers, setting up laboratories and companies to develop a range of electrical orangutan-frienship-thingy trigger. That's how Clyde was born.

Bogar Reyes' achievements and his abilities as a showman demonstrating his seemingly miraculous discoveries and inventions made him world famous, along with Clyde of course. Clyde is basically every orangutan in the world; however, what Bogar Reyes discovered is that they all can be true friends (not to mention how easy it is to get laid after people sees you have an orangutan friend). Right after a Clyde's friendship is triggered, he'd ask for a high five and a milkshake. His name is non-negotiable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.65.229.26 (talk) 00:15, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Additional info
I removed the following recently added to Orangutan where it doesn't belong...

Young captive orangutans have been used in films, TV and advertising.

The Clint Eastwood movies Any Which Way You Can and  Every Which Way But Loose featured an orangutan named Clyde who died shortly after the latter film was made. An assistant trainer admitting beating Clyde with a cane and ax handle, which was not illegal at the time.


 * Didn't Clyde appear in some Cannonball Run or something? 188.238.134.34 (talk) 13:55, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

The television soap opera Passions used an orangutan named BamBam. Baby orangutans have also been used in television commercials for companies such as Ask.com, Capital One and Visa.

Entertainer Bobbi Berosini used several orangutans in his Las Vegas show act until he was videotaped beating the animals back stage. Animal rights group PETA publicized a videotape of the abuse and entered into a long series of lawsuits with Berosini who eventually agreed to release custody of the orangutans and promise not to own or use non-human primates. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Merbabu (talk • contribs) 00:09, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I have added this text in a new section Use in Entertainment. It seems like it belongs in this article per Merbabu's comment above. Bob98133 (talk) 17:58, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Major omission
Incredible that this article fails to include Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the famous first detective story in literature, where the "murderer" turns out to be an orangutan. I'll reserve comment on modern illiteracy. Jtcarpet (talk) 04:24, 16 December 2013 (UTC)