Orangutan


 * Common name:** Orangutan [[image:http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll294/littlelo99/2_baby_orangutan-1.jpg?t=1209528727 width="284" height="385" align="left" caption="2_baby_orangutan-1.jpg picture by littlelo99"]]


 * Scientific name:**Pongo Pygmaeus

They live in dense rainforests.
 * Habitat:**

Orangutans live in southeast Asia on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra.
 * Range:**

These animals have reddish-brown thin, shaggy hair. Their arms and hands are long and extremely strong. Orangutans are 4-6ft long and weigh 65-100 for females and for males it's 100-200 pounds. In the wild they live 35-40 years.
 * Physical Characteristics:**

Fruits are their main food but they also eat wild figs,some kinds of veggitaion,insects,small vertabrates and bird eggs.
 * Diet:**


 * Behavior and Adaptations:**

Orangutans give live birth and they cannot have a baby unless they are 7 years and older. In the wild orangutans don't mate until they are age 12. After the animal is born it will cling to its mother's stomach until it is age 5 when it is to old it may still seek for protection from its mom.
 * Reproduuction:**

People kill the moms and then take their babies and keep them for the circus. We also hurt them from logging because we destroy their living territory.
 * Relationship to people:**

They are endangered in the wild there are about 19000-25000 and in captivity about 900.
 * Status:**

BOOK:Susman,Randall "orangutan."world book.2001.Chicago 2001 1. __Kidsplanet.org__ "Oragutan--kidsplanet--Defenders of wildlife"April 29,2008 http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/oragutan.html
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