Sumatran orangutan
Pongo abelii / Sumatran orangutan
- Habitat
- tropical rainforest
- Continent
- Asia
- Food
- Fruits, fresh shoots, but also small animals and birds' eggs
- Gestation/breeding period
- 9 months
- Mode of life
- Solitary or mother with offspring
- Class
- Mammals
- Order
- Primates
Key facts
~ 1.50 m
size
~ 80 kg
weight
~ 60 years
age
How endangered are Sumatran orangutans?
by IUCN (Red List of Threatened Species)
- Not evaluated
- Data deficient
- Least concern
- Near threatened
- Vulnerable
- Endangered
-
Critically endangered Critically endangered - Extinct in the wild
- Extinct
Did you know?
The first rearing of an orangutan in human hands took place at Dresden Zoo in the 1920s.
Sumatran orangutan on the zoo tour
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