An Orangutan (Pongo) is a great ape that has fur with a color between red and brown. There are two species of orangutan. They are from Southeast Asia. There are very few of them left, because loss of the jungle has made many of them die.
Orangutans have red-brown fur
In general its coat which is sparse, long and coarse, will range anywhere from bright orange in youngsters to a chocolate mahogany in some adults.
They have very long and strong arms.
Their legs are about 30% shorter than their long arms which can grow, up to 6.6ft. (2m). They use both legs and arms to move from tree to tree in the forest canopy. Their feet are designed like hands and their both hands and feet are long, narrow and strong and used in a hook like fashion when grasping branches. The thumb is fully opposable.
Their hands are good for climbing.
The Sumatran Orangutan is smaller and has longer hair/fur than the Bornean Orangutan.
The Sumatran species has a thinner, paler coat than that of the Bornean. It is the largest tree dwelling mammal in the world; males at 220 pounds and standing 5 feet tall are twice the size of females.
what did they eat?
Orangutans will spend at least 60% of their daylight hours eating and searching for food.
They eat over 300 different kinds of fruit,
thay are same like human,which is in omnivor class.
orang utan eat fruit,leaves, young shoots and bark and also insects
birds egg and small vertebrate animals
Some of the more recognizable food they eat are rambutans, jackfruits, magosteens, mangoes, figs, pandanus leaves, bark, insects, lychees and young shoots.
what did baby orang utan eat?
It is crucial for the baby of an orangutan to be taught by its mother what food to eat, where to find that food, in which trees and during which seasons.they also eat vegetables and insect
Orang Utan Biology-Taxonomy
orangutans are great apes, belonging to the taxanomic family “Hominidae.” Most scientists recognize two distinct species of orangutans: Pongo pygameus on the island of Borneo, and Pongo abelii on the island of Sumatra. The Bornean orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus, is further subdivided into three subspecies: P. pygmaeus morio in East Kalimantan and Sabah, P. pygmeus pygmaeus in Sarawak and the northwest part of West Kalimantan, and P. pygmaeus wurmbii in Central Kalimantan and the southwest part of West Kalimantan._____________________________________________
bornean orangutan
Bornean Orangutan - (Pongo pygmaeus)
The Bornean Orangutan has a darker, almost chocolate hair covering their bodies. The adult males of Borneo have more robust bodies than P. albelii and their cheek pads are larger and shaped differently. In Borneo it has been observed that the rainforests support less than 1 to 3 Orangutans per square kilometer
The island of Borneo is the third largest island in the world and it is divided by high mountain ranges. These ranges are impassable in most parts as the straits that separate the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. This has led to biologists recognizing three major regions of Borneo that have possibly produced three sub-species of Pongo pygmaeus. In the east of the island Orangutans have a chocolate colored coat compared to the southwest where the coats are a red-orange color. This region of the island is closest to Sumatra, which may explain why the color of these Orangutans is so closely related.
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Sumatran Orangutan
Sumatran Orangutan - (Pongo albelii)
The Sumatran Orangutan has a red-orange coat of hair that is white around the mouth and abdomen. The males of this species have a better throat beard than do the males of the Borneo. Orangutans are a solitary animal, but Pongo albelii tends to be the more social Orangutan of the two species. The richer forests in Sumatra can support no more than 6 to 7 Orangutans perkilometer________________________________________
The genocide of our closest living relatives will soon come to an end. How it ends depends entirely on us, humans. Ending on a good note means illegal logging, poaching, retaliatory killing, and animal trafficking will be halted in the only place in the world where these omnivorous animals live: the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. However, if these activities cannot be stopped, some say orangutans, which share 97% of human genetics, may be extinct in the wild within as few as two years.
have pity on them.can't you see how hard orang-utan have to face their extinction problem?
do you want these orangutan extinct just like that?
think about it people.orangutan have feelings too.same like human.
they want a FREEDOM.Can all human races just let them live their lives?
is it hard to do the most simplest things in the world?Fine if you do not care about it at all.
But think about the baby.All babies in the world need their mother including animals.Nobody wants to be separated with their love ones especially with their parents.So do the baby orang-utan.They need their mother for comfort,feeding and protection.Be considerate and have pity on them!
__________________________________________LITTLE SETO lives in our hands
HELP LITTLE SETO!!!His life is in our hands!
Young orangutans normally learn things like climbing, searching for food, building nests and how to use tools from their mothers. At Samboja-Lestari human surrogate mothers help orangutan orphans to learn these skills. As soon as the orangutans have learned all these things they will be released at the age of 7-8 years old to safe and secure forest.
At the moment 220 orangutans are looked after at Samboja-Lestari. Please support this project and help provide a better future for the orphaned orangutans!
On behalf of Seto and all the other inhabitants of the rehabilitation centre we want to thank you for your support!
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What can we do to ensure orangutan safety?
When forests are damaged, fragmented, burned, or cut, orangutans are exiled from the only life they know. Orangutans driven out of their arboreal homes are slow, helpless, and extremely vulnerable to people, disease and starvation.
Help us patrol Tanjung Puting National Park and its surrounding forests!
What can we do to ensure orangutan safety?
Forest Protection
Protecting the forests where orangutans live is the first priority in terms of ensuring orangutan survival as species in the wild. Illegal activities, such as logging, clear-cutting, and poaching, represent real and constant threats to the survival of all wildlife in the forest, including orangutan populations.When forests are damaged, fragmented, burned, or cut, orangutans are exiled from the only life they know. Orangutans driven out of their arboreal homes are slow, helpless, and extremely vulnerable to people, disease and starvation.
Help us patrol Tanjung Puting National Park and its surrounding forests!
We hope that the sun will never permanently set on the forests where orangutans live
Forest Stewardship
OFI firmly believes that the only sustainable strategy to saving the orangutans is saving their rainforest habitat. We are committed to protecting Tanjung Puting National Park, purchasing land in environmentally sensitive areas, and healing and restoring forests that have been damaged or destroyed.
The Sekonyer River flows through the forests of Tanjung Puting National Park in Central Indonesian Borneo.
Rehabilitation
In 1971 Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas and Rod Brindamour established an orangutan rehabilitation and release program at Tanjung Puting Reserve (now national park). It was the first such program in Kalimantan. The reasons for establishing the rehabilitation program at Camp Leakey included removing orangutans from the commercial pet trade, improving the quality of life for ex-captive orangutans, educating local people and government officials, and establishing a highly visible tourist attraction in the park. Equally important, Dr. Galdikas felt that an orangutan rehabilitation program would help highlight the importance of Tanjung Puting and help protect the forests around Camp Leakey as well as the wild orangutans living in the park by making the orangutan work more visible.
OFI’s program in Tanjung Puting National Park has released approximately 200 orangutans to the wild. Successfully released orangutan ex-captives engage in species appropriate behavior, reproduce successfully, and, in the case of females, rear offspring. Some of these offspring have themselves become mothers. In one case, a granddaughter of an original released wild born ex-captive orangutan has herself given birth.
At Camp Leakey, wild born ex-captive orangutans and their offspring sometimes return for the daily feedings, especially when fruit in the forest is scarce. Wild orangutans sometimes come to the feeding as well, especially when wild fruit is not abundant. Some wild born ex-captive orangutans also return for stimulation, for social interaction with other orangutans, and even humans. It is almost like they want to see “what’s going on” at Camp Leakey which serves as a type of “Manhattan” (a busy population center) for the orangutans.
Cages loaded up at Orangutan Care Center. Six ex-captive orangutans were released that day.
Wild born Tom, son of ex-captive orangutan Tut, is the dominant adult male orangutan in the vicinity of Camp Leakey. Here Dr. Galdikas watches Tom take over a cart that has sacks of rambutan fruit. What Tom wants, Tom gets!
