Orangutan
(Pongo
pyhmaeus/abelii)
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Orangutan are the great ape with long
sleeves and hairy reddish or brown, which live in tropical forests Indonesia
and Malaysia. Orangutan name
derived from the malay language, that
it ‘people’ which means human and ‘utan’
that means forest. They include vertebrate animals and also mammals or primates
which are a family of Hominidae.
Orangutan is the threatened animals because their population status has been
very hard to found because the many poaching by humans and forest fire.
Physical characteristics of the orangutan is almost
equal to human but their bodies covered with fur is reddish or brown hair. They
have body fat and big, big neck, with long arms and strong, short and bowed
legs and not have tails. Male orangutan weight around 50-90 kgs, while the
famale orangutan weighting up to 30-50 kgs. When it reaches sexual maturity
levels, male orangutan has a fat tamples on both sides, the crown of a large,
and growing long hair becomes a bears around the face, they have senses the
same as human, is hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch. They also have a
large brains, eyes that leads forward, and hands that can grip.
Orangutan is a omnivorous animals, but most of the
their only eat plants. Usually, they eat the bark, foliage, flowers, and some
types of insect as well as most types of fruits. Basides, they also feed of
nectar and money. Orangutan don’t need to leave their tree if their want to
drink. They usually drink water that has accumulated in the holes between tree
branches where their live. Predator largest orangutan is human and the other
like a leopard, pig, crocodile, python and black eagle.
Female
orangutan usually give birth on age 7-10 years with long gynecology rages 8,5
to 9 month. Babies born normally only one, their baby can live alone on age 6-7
years. Dependence orangutan on its mother is the longest of all the animals,
because there are many things that must be learned in order to survive, they
usually maintained until the age of 6 year old.
Orangutan
can move quickly from tree to tree with by means of swinging on tree branches,
or commonly called Brachiating.They can also walk on two legs, but rarely found.
Orangutan can’t swimming. Orangutans don’t live in a large flock, they are
semi-solitary animals. Orangutan males are usually found alone and a females
oranguta usually accompained by some of his children. Orangutan are arboreal animals,
meaning that their live and active in the trees is different from other types
of apes.
Sumber https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orang_utan
