The word orangutan means ‘person of the forest’ in the Malay language. The Borneo subspecies is Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus, while Sumatra subspecies name, Pongo pygmaeus abelii.After humans, orangutans are the most intelligent animals on earth.
Currently, the orangutan is a victim of global economic forces. Orangutan populations are seriously affected when their forest is destroyed or logged, not least because they are often killed for meat or to protect newly planted crops.
Orangutans play a crucial role in the forest they inhabit: their diet of fruit and their mobility means that they are excellent seed dispersers.
Orangutan is an ape which the only ape that live in Asia, while other apes live in Africa. Sometimes they are called red apes because they have reddish hair on their bodies.
Adult male orangutans grow to a height of 1.7 m and may weigh up to 91 kg. Females can stand only 1.2 m at the most and on average weigh half as much as the males.
The orangutan’s skin is coarse and dark gray, and the hair, which is rufous orange in color, is shaggy by sparse, so the skin can be seen through it in many places.
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