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Sumatran orangutan will commute seasonally between lowland, intermediate, and highland regions, following fruit availability. Undisturbed forests with broader altitudinal range can thus sustain larger orangutan populations; conversely, the fragmentation and extensive clearance of forest ranges breaks up this seasonal movement.
Sumatran orangutans are frugivores, or animals that feed on fruit. They are responsible for spreading seeds over their native area, and losing them means many tree species could also disappear.
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 ...
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).
Image credits: thootly #5 Orangutans Self-Medicate. A Sumatran Orangutan in Indonesia has been observed healing a nasty wound on its face by making a paste from a native plant known to locals as ...
Sumatran orangutan, P. abelii CR; Bornean orangutan, ... Sulawesi harpy fruit bat, Harpyionycteris celebensis NT; ... Fly River roundleaf bat, ...
The Philadelphia Zoo is celebrating the birth of a baby Sumatran Orangutan and they shared a first look video, which is so cute. On July 11, 2024, the Philadelphia Zoo joyfully announced the birth ...
The Singkil Barat Nature Reserve [1] is a 650-square-kilometre (250 sq mi) [2] nature reserve found on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia.Located in the province of Aceh, the preserve contains the largest peat swamp within the leuser ecosystem and is hailed as the orangutan capital of the world. [3]