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The orang-utan is literally a "man of the woods", also called Mawas (pongo pygmaeus). It is a great ape with long reddish hair, and spends its time mostly moving about in the trees and less on the ground. Orang-utans live in the wet and hot forests of Sumatera and Kalimantan(Borneo). Kalimantan orang utans are red brown, while their Sumatran cousins are paler, and more gingerly color. Kalimantan orang utans also have coarser hair.
The mature male has fleshy cheekpads and a penduluos throat pouch, and his voice can be heard up to several kilometers away. His height reaches 125 cm standing tall, and weighs up to 110 kg. The female is about half in weight.

Orang utans have a varied diet of fruit, bark, leaves, and insects like ants, termites, and bees. They feed by moving in the canopy but the males freguently come to the ground to travel longer distances. However, the female of the species virtually never leave the trees. These creatures live a nomadic lifestyle depending on food availability. They have a solitary lifestyle unlike other species of monkeys or apes that live in groups.
The current number of orang utans left in the wild is estimated at between 20,000 and 27,000 (based on the latest survey comparisons between orangutan researchers in Sumatra in 1993). They are an endangered species, and are the only big ape found in Asia.

 
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A baby orang-utan - Photo of young orang utan

A Reflective Orang-Utan - Photo of thoughtful orang utan

Evelyn Gallardo - Children's Writer & Wildlife Photographer

Gladys Porter Zoo - Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville combines quality family entertainment with education.

Grungy- Another interesting orang utan site

A baby orang-utan - Photo of young orang utan

A Reflective Orang-Utan - Photo of thoughtful orang utan

Evelyn Gallardo - Children's Writer & Wildlife Photographer

A Reflective Orang-Utan - Photo of thoughtful orang utan

Evelyn Gallardo - Children's Writer & Wildlife Photographer

A Reflective Orang-Utan - Photo of thoughtful orang utan

Evelyn Gallardo - Children's Writer & Wildlife Photographer

Gladys Porter Zoo - Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville combines quality family entertainment with education.

Grungy- Another interesting orang utan site

Jason's Orang-Utan Links - "the orangutan is the sad heap of half deflated inner-tubes you hurry past on the way to the rather more out-going chimpanzees and gorillas." Due to large scale de-forestation they are an endangered species, there are only around 20000 Orang-Utan's left in the world.

Mother and baby orang-utan - Its fundamental desires remain and it is the frustration of those desires that is a great part of its suffering. Eventually we frustrate the animal's most fundamental desire of all--to live.

National Zoo - A new photo library. There are currently 33 primate images in the library, New photos will be added on a regular basis.

New Orleans Zoo

NONJA - Peter Lamborn Wilson on Orang Utan Lady NONJA,. Nonja, the dedicated musician.

Orang Utan Photo Gallery

Orangutan Foundation International - The mission of the Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) is to support the conservation and understanding of the orangutan and its rain forest habitat while caring for ex-captive individuals as they make their way back to the forest. Furthermore, OFI promotes the dissemination of information about the orangutan and its plight in order to galvanize the public and policy-makers towards an appreciation of the ape's value and current dilemma so that it might be saved from extinction.

Orang-Utan - The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality and moral choice - and that is precisely why we are under an obligation to recognise and respect the rights of animals.

Orangutan Photos - Orang-utan at the Woodland Park Zoo.

Photographers-Writers A.M.Hollitzer & Holli Hollitzer

Scientific American Frontiers

The Great Ape Project - The Great Ape Project is an idea, a book, and an organization. The idea is radical but simple: to include the non-human great apes within the community of equals by granting them the basic moral and legal protection that only human beings currently enjoy. The book, which is the collective work of a group of scientists and scholars, is a multifaceted argument against the unthinking denial of fundamental rights to beings who are not members of our own species, but who quite evidently possess many of the characteristics that we consider morally important.

The Orang Utan - The orang utan is found only in Borneo and Sumatra, almost exclusively in lowland rainforest areas.

Video Feed - THE FAMOUS ORANG UTAN LADY PLAYING THE KEYBOARD. BY KONRAD BECKER 1990 This is a live VideoTransmission HTML 3 +.

World Wildlife Fund - World Wildlife Fund Field Notes From World Wildlife Fund "Windows on the Wild" An Environmental Education Program Biodiversity Support Program A Joint Program of World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy and World Resources Institute Publications From World Wildlife Fund Web of Life: Exploring Biodiversity

ZooNet Image Archives

www.redcube.nl/bos A must to see; Willy Smits orang utan project In Indonesia (Kalimantan) a beautiful web site!

http://www.orangutan.com/  the American site !

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