urang utan

Orang-utan (or orangutans, another name is introspective) is a kind of great ape with long arms and reddish or brown hair, who lived in Indonesia and Malaysia. In Banjar language means orangutan who lives in the forest. The following data from the source orangutan Indonesian Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Description
The term is taken from the orangutans in Indonesian and / or language of Malays, which means that humans (people) forest. They have a fat body and big, big necked, long arms and strong, short legs and bowed, and did not have a tail.

Orangutans sized 1-1,4 m for males, which is approximately 2 / 3 times the size of a gorilla. Body covered orangutan brownish red hair. They have large heads with a high position of the mouth. Male orangutans have a fat temples. They have the same senses as humans, namely hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch.
Their palms have 4 long fingers plus the thumb 1. The soles of their feet also have fingers arrangement very similar to humans.

Classification
Orangutan including vertebrate animals, which means that they have a backbone. Orangutans also includes mammals and primates.
Orang-utan is now rare animals, because human beings constantly destroy their habitat and often also sell their babies for illegally as pets. Estimated orangutan population in the world recently numbered only 100,000 tails. We have been developed to conserve wildlife populations are in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Location and habitat
Orang-utan is found in tropical rain forest areas of Southeast Asia, namely in the island of Borneo and Sumatra in the territory of Indonesia and Malaysia. They usually live in dense trees and make a nest of leaves. Orangutans can live to the variety of forest types, ranging from forest dipterokarpus low hills and plains, watersheds, freshwater swamp forests, peat swamp, dry land in the mangrove swamps and palm, to the mountain forests. In Borneo orangutans can be found at an altitude of 500 m above sea level (asl), while his relatives in Sumatra has been reported to reach the mountain forests at 1000 m above sea level.
Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii lesson) is one of the endemic animals that exist only in Sumatra. Orangutans in Sumatra occupies only the northern part of the island, ranging from Timang Gajah, Central Aceh until Selatan.Keberadaan Tapanuli Sitinjak in this mammal Reserved 5 in 1990 on the conservation of Natural Resources and the Ecosystems and classified as 'Critically Endangered' by IUCN. In Sumatra, one of the orangutan population is in the river basin (DAS) Batang Toru, North Sumatra. The population of wild orangutans in Sumatra is estimated to number 7300 [2]. In the Batang Toru watershed with 380 tail pupulasi density of about 0.47 to 0.82 fish per square kilometer. The population of Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii lesson) is now estimated at 7500 head. Whereas in the era of the 1990s, an estimated 200,000 fish. Their population is at 13 separate geographical regions. These conditions led to their survival increasingly threatened with extinction. [1] At present almost all sumatera orangutans are found only in the province of North Sumatra and Aceh province, the Lake Toba as the most southern boundary spreading. 2 Only a relatively small population in the southwest of the lake, the East Sarulla and forests in the West Batang Toru. Largest orangutan population in Sumatra, found in the West Leuser (2508 individuals) and East Leuser (1052 individuals), and Swamp Singkil (1500 individuals). Another population estimated potential to survive in the long term (viable) is in Batang Toru, North Sumatra, with a size of about 400 individuals.
Orangutans in Borneo who are classified as 'endangered' by IUCN is divided into three subspecies: Orangutans in Borneo grouped into three types, namely Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus are located in the northern part of the Kapuas River to the northeast of Sarawak; Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii found ranging from south of the Kapuas River to the west of Barito River; and Pongo pygmaeus morio, estimated the total population in the wild nature 45,000 to 69,000 only. In Borneo, orangutans can be found in Sabah, Sarawak, and almost all the lowland forests of Borneo, except South Kalimantan and Brunei Darussalam.

Food
Included orangutans Although omnivorous animals, most of them only eat plants. Orangutans favorite food is fruit. Other foods a.l.:
Leaves, seeds, bark, bud crop (soft), flower-garlands. In addition they also eat insects and small animals (such as birds and small mammals).
Orangutans do not even have to leave their trees if you want to drink. They usually drank water that had accumulated in the holes between tree branches.

Predator
Largest predator adult orangutans are humans. Humans (in the form of institution / certain companies) tend intend to chop up / clean out their habitat (tropical rainforests). Some people even buy memperjual them as pets or smuggled to other countries to produce large amounts of money. Things like this makes the population of endangered orangutans.

How to protect yourself
Orangutan including shy creatures. They rarely show themselves to people or other creatures unknown.

The propagation
Female orangutans usually give birth at the age of 7-10 years old with long content ranges from 8.5 to 9 months; almost identical to humans. The number of infants born to a female is usually only one. Baby orangutans can live independently at the age of 6-7 years.

How to move
Orangutans can move quickly from tree to tree by swinging on tree branches, or commonly called brachiating. They also can walk on two feet, but rarely found. Orangutans can not swim.

Some interesting facts
Orangutans can hold objects with hands or feet. Largest male orangutans have a range of arm (length from one end of the hand to the other end of the hand when both hands outstretched) reached 2.3 m. Male orangutan can make long distance calls can be heard within a radius of 1 km. Used to mark / monitor arealnya, calling the females, males prevent other people who interfere. They have a large throat sac that enable them to do so. Every evening, they make nests in trees.