Click for map of Orang-utan distribution ... Orangutans are the only great apes outside Africa. They live in Sumatra and Borneo. The area where they live is being cleared for agriculture. The trees the orangutans live in are getting cut down for logging. Poachers come and catch baby orangutans for pets.
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Kids' feature about orangutans, with photographs, video, audio, fun facts, an email postcard, and links to other animals. ... Be sure to update to the latest Adobe Flash Player so you can enjoy all the games and interactives on National Geographic Kids. ... Animals A-Z: See photos, watch videos, and read facts about your...
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For orangutans, which live only on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, it's a catastrophe. Eighty percent of their habitat disappeared over the last 20 years, and illegal trade in orangutans as pets is booming.
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Orangutans must possess a great mental map of their food sources in order to survive. Wild orangutans must rely on their intelligence to develop very ... The reason for this surge in orangutans as pets was a result of a popular Taiwanese television program that featured a live orangutan as the perfect pet and companion.
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www.honoluluzoo.org/orangutan.htm
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Orangutans are large, quiet, gentle apes that live in southeast Asia (Bornes and Sumatra). These apes mostly live in trees (they are arboreal) and swing from branch to branch using their arms. ... HABITAT; Orangutans live in tropical rain forests. DISTRIBUTION; Orangutans live in Asia. They are the only great ape from...
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www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/apes/orangutan/
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The Nature Conservancy is conducting a survey to find out how many orangutans are left. In the wild, the apes live only on Borneo and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Only about 20,000 may ... In the wild, orangutans live only on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. See a detailed map. Graphic: Katherine Parker, NPR Online;
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Orangutans use leaves to alter call meant to ward off predators. ... Merely sounding bigger might do the trick to scare off a predator, because the jungles where the orangutans live are thick, which makes it difficult for the predator to actually see the primate and visually size them up.
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In the world of great apes, you could call orangutans the outcasts. Of the four species of apes, orangutans are the only ones found in Asia -- gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos all come from Africa. And unlike their mostly terrestrial relatives, orangutans spend almost their entire lives in trees.
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