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"Sometimes, a little photograph of a polar bear or an orang-utan, or a little bit of video of a seal in Northumberland, just twigs someone's brain to think they're really worth caring for," he said.

The film puts everyday conversations into the mouths of animals including an orang-utan, lemurs and an orca.

A year later, he would play the adult Piscine in Life of Pi - Ang Lee's film version of the Booker Prize-winning novel of a ship-wrecked boy forced to share a lifeboat with a zebra, an orang-utan and a ferocious Bengal tiger.

They point to an incident in 2013 when a Lega Senator referred to Italy's first black minister, Cecile Kyenge, as "an orang-utan".

This has led to the loss of biodiversity and habitat for under-threat animals such as the orang-utan.