Managing The Windows 2000 Registry

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The animal on the cover of Managing the Windows 2000 Registry is a female or juvenile orangutan. The word “orangutan” comes from the Malay word for “man of the woods.” Ancient legend has it that orangutans have the ability to speak, but choose not to because they are afraid that if humans find out, they will put the orangutans to work.

Orangutans are native to the forests of Borneo and Sumatra. Male adults have long beards and mustaches and highly developed cheek pads and throat pouches. The throat pouches are used as resonators for mating calls and calls to mark territory. Human males have a similar throat pouch, called the “Morgagnitic pouch,” but it is very small in most men. It becomes well developed in trumpet players, bass singers, and Muslim prayer callers.

These great apes are almost completely arboreal. They move by swinging from one tree branch to the next, and descend to the ground only when there is no branch to swing to, or occasionally to gather branches for building sleeping nests. Because of the orangutans’ method of locomotion, their arms are very strong and long, measuring up to 7.8 feet when outspread and reaching to the ankles when standing upright. Their legs, in contrast, are relatively weak. They eat primarily ...