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The Bornean orangutan diet is composed of over 400 types of food, including wild figs, durians (Durio zibethinus and D. graveolens), [29] leaves, seeds, bird eggs, flowers, sap, vines, [30] honey, fungi, spider webs, [30] insects, and, to a lesser extent than the Sumatran orangutan, bark.
Compared to their relatives in Borneo, Sumatran orangutans are more slender with paler and longer hair and a longer face. [36] Tapanuli orangutans resemble Sumatran orangutans more than Bornean orangutans in body build and hair colour. [21] They have shaggier hair, smaller skulls, and flatter faces than the other two species. [44]
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).
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.
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.
The orangutan's intriguing behavior was recorded in 2022 by Ulil Azhari, a co-author and field researcher at the Suaq Project in Medan, Indonesia. Photographs show the animal’s wound closed ...
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]
The organization estimated there were around 104,700 Bornean orangutans at the time — a sharp decline from an estimated 288,500 animals in 1973. The numbers could drop to just 47,000 by 2025 ...