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Orangutan researcher Birutė Galdikas presenting her book about the apes. Orangutans were known to the native people of Sumatra and Borneo for millennia. The apes are known as maias in Sarawak and mawas in other parts of Borneo and in Sumatra. [13] While some communities hunted them for food and decoration, others placed taboos on such practices.
Orangutan Jungle School is a British documentary television series showcasing the journeys of several orphaned orangutans at the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre in Kalimantan, Indonesia, which is run by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation.
An orangutan peeling a banana with its hand and foot. The Bornean orangutan diet is composed of over 400 types of food, including wild figs, durians (Durio zibethinus and D. graveolens), [29] leaves, seeds, bird eggs, flowers, sap, vines, [30] honey, fungi, spider webs, [30] insects, and, to a lesser extent than the Sumatran orangutan, bark.
Ponginae / p ɒ n ˈ dʒ aɪ n iː /, also known as the Asian hominids, is a subfamily in the family Hominidae.Once a diverse lineage of Eurasian apes, the subfamily has only one extant genus, Pongo (orangutans), which contains three extant species; the Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii), the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis) and the Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus).
An orangutan will break off a tree branch that is about a foot long, snap off the twigs and fray one end with its teeth. [10] The orangutan will use the stick to dig in tree holes for termites. They will also use the stick to poke a bee's nest wall, move it around and catch the honey. In addition, orangutans use tools to eat fruit. [11]
A wounded orangutan was seen self-medicating with a plant known to relieve pain. It's the first time an animal has been observed applying medicine to a skin injury.
Thinkers of the Jungle - The Orangutan Report: Pictures, Facts, Background [26] gives an account of the life, behaviour and fate of orangutans. Alongside a wealth of information about this endangered species based on the latest research, authors Willie Smits and Gerd Schuster outline the threat to the orangutan's survival: economical and ...
A third species, the Tapanuli orangutan (P. tapanuliensis), was identified definitively in 2017. The orangutans are the only surviving species of the subfamily Ponginae , which diverged genetically from the other hominids ( gorillas , chimpanzees and humans ) between 19.3 and 15.7 million years ago.