Common name : Asian ape
Scientific name : Pongo
Family : Hominidae
Native to : Indonesia and Malaysia
Interesting fact : Its name in Malay means ‘forest person’.
Conservation status : Critically Endangered
They have a coat of reddish-brown, and black hairless face. They spend most of their time on trees, and have a diet consisting of fruits, bark, honey, insects and other vegetation. The female orangutan gives birth to a single offspring after a gestation period of 9 months, and has 8 years’ interval between two births.
