23 Dec 2014

Orangutans

Orangutan
The orangutan is now surviving in only two islands Borneo and the northerly region of Sumatra. This type of species is a very critical stage of conditions. It also called as “Red apes”. They like to spend more time in trees.

Facts of orangutan

  1. They have reddish brown or black color hair likes chimpanzees and gorillas.
  2. Orangutan’s favorite foods are fruits, bark, honey, worms and even bird eggs.
  3. It’s can able to live 30 years in wild or captivity.
  4. They have 32 teeth like a human.
  5. It can able to travel 50 to 1000 meters in one day.
  6. Orangutans have 7 times greater strength than a human.
  7. The orangutans literally means “person of the woodland”.
  8. Bornean orangutans are tall up to 1-1.5 m and the arm span as long as 2.5 m. Its weight up to 90 kg.
  9. The females can able to give birth for to new one in every 8 years.
  10. After completing 15 years only males can able to join with females.
  11. Orangutan has 97 % matching DNA with human.
  12. Mother careless is a higher level of this species. Child where in the carding of its mother for 13-14 years to get confidence.
  13. For sharing their communication they used sounds.
  14. Now Bornean orangutan has 41,000 and Sumatran orangutan are only 7,500 where present in this universe today.

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