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The Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) is one of the three species of orangutans. Critically endangered , and found only in the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra , it is rarer than the Bornean orangutan but more common than the recently identified Tapanuli orangutan , also found in Sumatra.
According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the Sumatran orangutan is on the critically endangered list. This distinction means that the species faces an extremely high ...
A 2017 genome study found that the Bornean and Tapanuli orangutans diverged from Sumatran orangutans about 3.4 mya, and from each other around 2.4 mya. Millions of years ago, orangutans travelled from mainland Asia to Sumatra and then Borneo as the islands were connected by land bridges during the recent glacial periods when sea levels were ...
However, the discovery of a previously unknown orangutan population in Malaysian Borneo is reason to hope. Threats. Human actions have reduced orangutan habitats by more than 80% over the past 20 ...
The number of Bornean orangutans has decreased by more than 60% in 60 years, and the population of the Sumatran orangutan has decreased by 80% in the last 75 years. [2] It is estimated that between 1999 and 2015, the population of Bornean orangutans has decreased by over 100,000. [2]
Rakus, a male Sumatran orangutan, treated a wound on his face by chewing leaves from a climbing plant named Akar Kuning and repeatedly applying the juice to it, according to a paper published in ...
Ponginae / p ɒ n ˈ dʒ aɪ n iː /, also known as the Asian hominids, is a subfamily in the family Hominidae.Once a diverse lineage of Eurasian apes, the subfamily has only one extant genus, Pongo (orangutans), which contains three extant species; the Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii), the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis) and the Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus).
In June 2022, a male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus sustained a facial wound below the right eye, apparently during a fight with another male orangutan at the Suaq Balimbing research site, a ...