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Mother orangutans are killed so their infants can be sold as pets. Between 2012 and 2017, the Indonesian authorities, with the aid of the Orangutan Information Center, seized 114 orangutans, 39 of which were pets. [129] Estimates in the 2000s found that around 6,500 Sumatran orangutans and around 54,000 Bornean orangutans remain in the wild. [130]
However, the discovery of a previously unknown orangutan population in Malaysian Borneo is reason to hope. Threats. Human actions have reduced orangutan habitats by more than 80% over the past 20 ...
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.
Orangutans are one of the most expensive animals in this trade. Often, the poaching of orangutans is linked with the illegal pet trading, where it is highly common for poachers to kill adult females, and take the infant to sell on the black market. [21] According to a survey, hunters are paid approximately USD$80 to $200 for an infant orangutan ...
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.
Talk about a cool story! CBS News shared some interesting news about an orangutan named Rakus who used a specific plant to treat a wound. The video was shared on Saturday, May 4th and it has ...
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.
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).