Orangutans

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Orangutans
By VVI
Man of the Forest
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Introduction

• Scientific name is arboreal and pongidae
• They are in the ape family
• They are related to humans
• People call them the red apes

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What do orangutans look like?

• Arms are extremely long
• Arms grow up to 7 feet!
• Orange red hair and dark grey skin
• Males have huge cheek flaps
• Males have beards
• Babies have less fur and grow up to 2-4 feet
• Short legs
• Hairy body
• Brown eyes
• Short thumbs
• Foot looks like an upside hand

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LIFE SPAN!

• Lives to 60 years max
• endangered
• People are also keeping babies as pets
• Usually lives up to 40-57 years

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Landforms, weather, and habitats!

• Live in rain forests only
• spend most of its time up in trees
• When they are up in trees they are up to 4,800
  feet off the ground!

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Climate and Weather

• Wet
• Misty
• Warm
• Humid
• Dark
• Sometimes cold
• Never snows

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What kind of eaters are they?

• They are herbivores (doesn't eat meat).
• Largest fruit eating animal in the forest
• Eats fruit, plants, nuts and tree bark
• They love to eat berries and grape fruit
• They eat leaves and bananas

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Predator and Prey!

• Babies are sometimes prey of wild pigs and
  pythons
• Adult are not prey to anything
• Humans are their biggest predator because they
  kill them or keep them as pets.

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Behavior!

• Most intelligent animal in the world!
• Have 4 faces talk to each other like playful,
  begging for food, frightened and angry
• They walk on their knuckles
• Sleep in trees and make new nests every time they
  go to bed
• They swing and eat everyday and go to new trees
  to sleep.
• They rarely go back to the same tree or same nest
  to sleep.

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Babies

• Stay with mother for 6 or 7 years
• Babies cling to their mothers hair while she
  swings through the trees
• When they are born they are about 1 foot tall.

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How They Adapt to Their Environment?Physical
Adaptations

• Long arms that help them swing through the trees
  really fast
• Legs are shorter than their arms so when they
  swing they dont get in their way
• Their thumbs are short so they can swing more
  easily.
• Their feet look the same as their hands so that
  they can stand on the branches.

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How do they Act?Behavioral Adaptations

• They build nests and they curl up in a ball so
  that they wont fall out of the tree.
• They swing from tree to tree so that they can
  travel farther and faster
• They will fight with each other to get food.
  Such as grabbing bananas from other apes.
• To protect themselves from humans they make
  scary noises and show their sharp teeth.

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Physiological Adaptations

• Sharp set of teeth to break and eat nuts
• Big mouth to hold food
• Really strong muscles in their arms so they can
  swing
• Very good eyesight. They can see far so they
  know where to get food or see predators.

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Fun Facts!

• People capture baby orangutans to keep as pets! ?
• They like to play in mud
• Their only enemies are humans!
• Rain forest is being cut down?
• 506 orangatans die every year