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| Intelligent and fascinating apes. |
The orangutans are two species of great apes known
for their intelligence, long arms and reddish-brown
hair. Native to Indonesia and Malaysia, they are
currently found only in rainforests on the islands
of Borneo and Sumatra, though fossils have been
found in Java, Vietnam and China. They are the only
surviving species in the genus Pongo and the subfamily
Ponginae (which also includes the extinct genera
Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus). Their name derives
from the Malay and Indonesian phrase orang hutan,
meaning "person of the forest".
Like the other great apes, orangutans are remarkably
intelligent. Although tool use among chimpanzees
was documented by Jane Goodall in the 1960s, it
was not until the mid-1990s that one population
of orangutans was found to use feeding tools regularly.
A 2003 paper in the journal Science described the
evidence for distinct orangutan cultures... |
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