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The Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) 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 more common than the recently identified Tapanuli orangutan , also found in Sumatra.
The description in 2017 of a third species, P. tapanuliensis, from Sumatra south of Lake Toba, came with a surprising twist: it is more closely related to the Bornean species, P. pygmaeus than to its fellow Sumatran species, P. abelii. [21] Flanged male Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutans. The Sumatran orangutan genome was sequenced in ...
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).
According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the Sumatran orangutan is on the critically endangered list. This distinction means that the species faces an extremely high ...
Bornean orangutan: Pongo pygmaeus: 30–100 100–170 [10] 100–140 [11] Borneo: Hominidae: Sumatran orangutan: Pongo abelii: 45–90 120–180 [12] 90–170 [13] Sumatra: Hominidae: Tapanuli orangutan: Pongo tapanuliensis: 40–90 120–150 [14] 110–137 [15] Sumatra: Hominidae: Chimpanzee: Pan troglodytes: 27–70 63–93 100–170 [16] Sub ...
Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) There are three species of orangutan. The Bornean orangutan, the most common, can be found in Kalimantan, Indonesia and Sarawak and Sabah in Malaysia. [1] The Sumatran orangutan and the Tapanuli orangutan are both only found in Sumatra, Indonesia. [1]
A hybrid orangutan or cocktail orangutan is usually an orangutan derived from interbreeding between any of the three Orangutan species: Bornean (Pongo pygmaeus), Sumatran (Pongo abelii) and Tapanuli (Pongo tapanuliensis), but the term "hybrid orangutan" could also refer to hybrids of the three known Bornean subspecies. [1]
Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelli) Hominoidea is a superfamily of primates. Members of this superfamily are called hominoids or apes, and include gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, gibbons, bonobos, and humans. Hominoidea is one of the six major groups in the order Primates. The majority are found in forests in Southeastern Asia and Equatorial Africa, with the exception of humans, which have ...