In Indonesia, Cyclone Senyar unleashed four days of torrential rain that triggered deadly landslides, killing approximately 58 Tapanuli orangutans according to Live Science. The loss represents about 7 percent of the species' entire population. The Tapanuli orangutan — only scientifically identified a decade ago — was already critically endangered with fewer than a thousand individuals remaining in the wild, making this climate-driven disaster particularly devastating for the world's rarest great ape.

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