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[22] [14] They have also been known to consume the inner shoots of plants and vines. [22] They will also occasionally eat nutrient rich soil. [30] They get the necessary quantities of water from both fruit and from tree holes. [20] Bornean orangutans have been sighted using spears to attempt (unsuccessfully) to catch fish. [31]
Orangutans are the most solitary of the great apes: social bonds occur primarily between mothers and their dependent offspring. Fruit is the most important component of an orangutan's diet, but they will also eat vegetation, bark, honey, insects and bird eggs. They can live over 30 years, both in the wild and in captivity.
Orangutans are arboreal, meaning they primarily live in the trees. There are three sub-species of orangutans, including the Bornean orangutan, the Sumatran orangutan, and the Tapanuli orangutan ...
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) eating a fruit. A frugivore (/ f r uː dʒ ɪ v ɔːr /) is an animal that thrives mostly on raw fruits or succulent fruit-like produce of plants such as roots, shoots, nuts and seeds. Approximately 20% of mammalian herbivores eat fruit. [1]
World Wildlife Fund explains that just a hundred years ago there were more than 230,000 orangutans in total and that those numbers have rapidly declined leaving only 100,000 Bornean orangutans left.
Scientists have previously recorded other primates using plants to treat themselves. Bornean orangutans rubbed themselves with juices from a medicinal plant, possibly to reduce body pains or chase ...
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).
A wounded orangutan was seen self-medicating with a plant known to relieve pain. It's the first time an animal has been observed applying medicine to a skin injury.