Orangutan
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Orangutans are great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia. They are now found only in parts of Borneo and Sumatra, but during the Pleistocene they ranged throughout Southeast Asia
Orang Utan, Semenggok Forest Reserve, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia
Flanged male Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutans
Fossil skull of Sivapithecus sivalensis, an extinct relative of orangutan
Adult male (left) and female Tapanuli orangutans
Sumatran orangutan
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The Sumatran orangutan is one of the three species of orangutans. Critically endangered, and found only in the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, it is rarer than the Bornean orangutan but mor
Orangutan
…originally considered to be one species. In 1996, they were divided into two species: the Bornean orangutan (P. pygmaeus, with three subspecies) and the Sumatran orangutan (P. abelii); a third species, the Tapanuli orangutan (P. tapanuliensis), was identified definitively in 2017. The orangutans are the only surviving…
Sumatra Orang Utan im Pongoland
Sumatra Orang Utan Pongo pygmaeus abeli Tierpark Hellabrunn 1
Close-up of an adult male, Tierpark Hagenbeck, Hamburg
At Bukit Lawang, Indonesia