Orang utan (or orangutans, another name is introspection) is a kind of great apes with long arms and hairy reddish or brown, which live in the tropical forests of Indonesia and Malaysia, particularly on the island of Borneo and Sumatra
The term "orangutan" is taken from the words in the Malay language, the 'person' means human and "utan" which means forest. Orang utan includes two sub-species, the Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) and orangutan Kalimantan (Borneo) (Pongo pygmaeus). What is unique is the orangutan has a close kinship to humans at levels kingdom animalia, where orang utan have DNA similarity rate of 96.4%. Orangutan including vertebrate animals, which means that they have a spine. Orangutans also includes mammals and primates.
Orangutans are currently only found in Sumatra and Borneo, in Southeast Asia. Because the residence is a dense forest, it is difficult to estimate the number of population tepat.Di Borneo, the orangutan population is estimated at about 55,000 individu.Di Sumatra, the number is estimated at around 200 individuals. This happens due to excessive land clearing.
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