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the only great ape that prefers the treetops to the drama below.
means A large, reddish-brown, tree-dwelling great ape native to the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra.
from From Malay (and Indonesian) 'orang hutan,' literally 'person of the forest' — 'orang' meaning person and 'hutan' meaning forest or jungle. The word entered European languages in the 17th century, though Malay speakers may not originally have used it for the ape itself. The stray 'g' in English is an accident of transmission, since the Malay phrase has no such ending.
- name meaning
- Malay for person of the forest
- tool users
- craft umbrellas and tools from leaves
- flanged males
- grow huge cheek pads to win mates
- slow breeders
- births spaced about eight years apart
- shared DNA
- roughly 97 percent identical to humans
tanjung puting national park — 3,040 sq km reserve in indonesia that hosts ~7,000 wild orangutans, largest population
koko the orangutan — female bornean orangutan at san diego zoo who learned to paint and became famous in the 1990s