What is the orangutan?

Orangutans are two species of large apes that live in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. Their name comes from the Malaysian phrase orang utan , which means "a man of forest". The first translations of the term -ng instead of -n , which is "orangutang", but this is incorrect, only deriving the temptation of western people to repeat the end of the first syllable on the third. The real world is pronounced as it is written: orangutan. Two species are Sumatran Orangutan, found on Sumatra and Bornean Orangutan, found on Borneo. Sumatran Orangutan is critically endangered, with only about 3,500 individuals living in the wild. Orangutan Bornean is "only" endangered, with about 45,000 individuals in the wild. Together, the orangutans are the only great a desktop native of Asia (other - people, chimpanzees and gorillas - are all original from Africa).

with men of teens up to 5 ft 9 in (123 cm) on V VThe ease and weighing up to £ 260 (118 kg), the orangutan is the largest arboreal animal in the world - spending its time almost exclusively on trees. This distinguishes orangutan from other great apes, none of which is very artificial. As an arbor animals, fruit is 65% of the orangutan diet. They especially like figs. Orangutans are preferred by lowland forests for their high fruit content, but unfortunately they are the same forests that are very desirable after logging in.

Unlike other large apes, orangutans are basically lonely, with men and women they only associate to join. There is also a large sexual dimorphism, and men are more than a leg higher and weigh around twice as much than women. The flange men have a completely different hormonal pattern than men who did not like - for example, flange men defendedterritory. The flange men set up harem over the territories, choose women with calls, but crushed men can only lose rape. A study of orangutans in Sumatra found that each strategy was equally effective in impregnating females.