PRAZZER- ORANGUTAN `S LIFE

Orangutans are the only great ape found in Asia, precisely in Sumatra and Kalimantan. Other great apes in the African chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), gorillas (Pan gorilla) and banobo (Pan paniscus). Orangutans belong to the Order Primates, Pongidae Familia, and species Pongo pygmaeus (orangutan of Borneo) and abelli Pongo (orangutans are found on the island of Sumatra).
The characteristics of the Body:
* Sumatran Orangutan (Pongo abelli) has the physical characteristics of a larger body, dark or reddish brown, hairs sparse and short, and the baby appears there patches of reddish or greenish.* The Borneo orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) physical features body look smaller, light-colored or orange, and hand bones are longer.* In general, male orangutans have cheekpad on both cheeks and her size two times larger than females, with body weight in the wild ranges between 50-90 kg.




Habitat:
* Orangutan habitat is the tropical lowland rain forest, swampy forest or forest hills at an altitude of 1500 m asl. Now, they can only be found in the forest left in Borneo and Sumatra (90%), while 10% of its forests remaining in Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak).* Orangutans also nest on tall trees and spend most of their daily activities as well from the top of one tree to another tree.
Food and forest regeneration:
* Orangutan including animal glutton fruits (frugivores). They also eat leaves, flowers and cambium. Also, termites and ants in order to get protein. As for getting the mineral content, sometimes they eat soil.* His habit to eat fruit that has been cooked or raw in jungle habitat and habits in the surf from one tree to another, obviously a very important role in the regeneration of forest plants.* Orangutans eat the flesh and seeds of fruit. Sometimes the seeds are not eaten fruit tersemburkan just to the ground. Even the seeds are eaten sometimes still intact in the feces, so it can grow again as a new plant in the regenerating forest tree that was old and dead.* Orangutans are also frequently 'eating on the road "when browsing from a tree branch to another tree. Sometimes just sprayed fruit seeds far from parent trees.Thereby expanding the distribution of tree seedlings grow anywhere along its path cruising area.* In addition to mobile browsing, orangutans will usually traverse the forest canopy, with a bend / break a lot of branches, will help the plants that are below it to get much-needed sunlight for photosynthesis.