Orangutans In Malay orang means "person" and utan is defined as "forest'. Thus Orangutan literally means "Person of the Forest". Orangutans are found in the tropical forests of Sumatra and Borneo. They are the most arboreal of the great apes and move amongst the safety of the trees from one feeding site to the next. They are so well adapted to arboreal life that they cannot place their feet on the ground, instead they walk on the outside of their curved foot. There is a scattered population
After researching and observing the lives of orangutans I can support my hypothesis. The orangutans are restricted into a small area, fed when the trainers feed them, and live on the ground because there are no trees causing them to have a different lifestyle than the wild orangutans. The captive orangutans are taken care of by the trainer and never have to struggle to get food. They seem to sit and sleep at the same time, for majority of the time I was observing. There are no predators for them
the opposite effect on orangutans. This endangered species once thrived throughout South East Asia but is now confined to the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. Companies producing palm oil, have repeatedly placed economical expansion before the well being of non-human elements such as the orangutan. These companies have expanded onto the rainforests in hopes of economic growth. The Orangutan Foundation International, started by the most prestigious primatologist studying orangutans, Birutė Galdikas, warns
Hello good morning ladies and gentlemen. Have you ever seen an Orangutan? Have you ever touch them? Well, talking about Orangutan, there are many sad cases about them. In 2015, in Ketapang, West-Borneo, a five-months-old baby Orangutan named Budi was kept as a pet after being stolen from his family in the wild. He spent his first year in a chicken cage and he was treated badly. Whole part of his body were injured, there were so many wounds. He couldn’t walk or sit up on his own, he was too skinny
Introduction Palm oil is considered an essential ingredient for the production of foods and other products in which human use. Orangutan Project (2015) states that ‘palm oil is derived from the fruit of the oil palm tree’, and the ‘palm oil plantations are the main driver for deforestation in Indonesia’. The harvest of the palm trees for the production of palm oil affects the ecosystem as it can affect the environment. This investigation with highlight out the advantages of the palm fruit providing
occupying most of South and Southeast Asia, orangutans today are only found in fragmented dipterocarp and peat swamp forests (Groves 1971) on the islands of Borneo, Malaysia and Sumatra, Indonesia (Buij et al. 2002; Sharma et al. 2012). The Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) is more severely threatened than the Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) with surviving populations numbering 12,500 in northern Sumatra (Buij et al. 2002). Experts have estimated that the orangutan species’ have declined 10-fold within
The orangutan saved Pi from being targeted by the hyena just like how earlier in the story, his mother helped him justify himself when Pi’s father was picking on him about his religions. These two symbolised perfectly what a motherly figure is suppose to be, but sadly the orangutan was killed by the evil. Orange juice magnifies a lot of Pi’s mothers traits such as sympathy and kindness, she
How well informed are you about global warming? Do you know that by 2030, at least 18% of the world’s coral reefs will be gone? Do you know that by 2050, up to 400 species of bird will be endangered or extinct? Do you know that by 2080, New York City will be under 3 feet of water due to rising sea levels? Most of these facts are not well known and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) seeks to change this. The WWF’s “mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life
There are a plenty of animals on the face of this earth and they live on different terrains. But there is one place where most of them can be found and that place is called zoo. Children love going to zoos and watch their favorite animals. But after growing up they realize that those animals are not living like they are supposed to. Zoos can be found in every major city in the world, and they accommodate both native and exotic animals. These beings can vary from an elephant to a kiwi and that is
Sumatran orangutans to feel? Sumatran Orangutans homes in North Sumatra are being destroyed on a high rate, the main problem is due to fire and other development. The plan to build a road in north Sumatra threatens one of the largest-numbers of areas of the orangutan’s habitat. Not only do fires burn down many areas of orangutan’s habitat, but alot of these apes were thought to have burned to death not able to escape the flames of the fire. Although they were legal laws to protect the orangutans in Indonesia
Zoos: Whom are we really helping? Peoples Trust has provided me with an extreme amount of information on why zoos are beneficial through their “Zoos & Conservation article.” Peoples Trust has pointed out that not every zoo mistreats their animals, but never took into consideration how the animals themselves may undergo, and what is being taken away from them. Peoples Trust article “Zoos & Conservation” touched surface solely on zoos located in Britain. What about the rest of the world? Luckily
am speaking of is the orangutan. After discussing all five great ape species in class, orangutans were the most interesting and intriguing of the bunch, and for that I have chosen to conduct further research on them, and I will go over what I have learned about these animals, such as their environment, social structure, conservation status and efforts, past and present, population, etc. I’ll first start off with a little introduction to orangutans. To start off, orangutans, which are classified in
the ecosystem as a whole. The palm oil plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia are ruining the ecosystem of that area. Those same plantations are causing animals to go extinct. The article, “Last Stand of the Orangutan” written by United Nations Environment Program talks about orangutans. Orangutans are endangered and are at risk of going extinct due to logging, forest fires and palm oil plantations. (United Nations Environment Programme) Illegal logging should receive a harsh punishment and although
are only shown to the public for certain amounts of hours, then they have to go back into their cages until the next morning. The longest living orangutan that still lives until today is a female and her name is Inji and she is 55 years old and has been living in the Oregon zoo since she was the age of 1. When it's closing the time for the zoo the orangutans have to go back in their cages until next morning. In the zoo, they get fed breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Their breakfast diet consists of leafy
including the Sumatran elephant, tiger, and orangutan, as well as the Bornean orangutans and pygmy elephants, all of which are critically endangered
2008.06.012 The article addresses the ecological impact of palm oil plantation in Indonesia and Malaysia. The author conducts a descriptive study of how the increased demand for palm has impacted biodiversity especially indigenous animals such as orangutan. In order to assess the impact of palm oil plantation on orangutan’s habitat, the author conducted a literature review. The author notes that the need to expand land for palm oil expansion has negatively impacted the composition and the size of orangutan’s
the area and plant crops for products we do not need such as palm oil. Animals, Such as the orangutan, face the destruction of their homeland with us continuing to increase the production of palm oil. What could make this change? Decreasing the use of palm oil, an ingredient contained in multiple products we use daily, can help decrease the deforestation in the rainforest and allow animals such as the orangutan to thrive. Palm oil became relevant to us only years ago. Palm oil became a factor in our
The last grade that will be discussed is grade IV that include apes and man. There are a couple of primates that are part of a superfamily called Hominoidea, which include siamangs, gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and humans. Humans and apes have a lot of things in common as far as behavior and characteristics for example Apes and humans are the most intelligent primates because they are reliant on of survival, they are both omnivores, as time went on their tail began to vanish
like humans, are catarrhines and part of the superfamily hominoidea. Apes started to appear in the Miocene about 20 million years ago(lecture notes, week 10), under this category there are many primates that are distinguished as apes, such as, orangutans, gibbons, chimpanzees, and gorillas. These particular primates are from the old world and are native to Africa and Asia. Apes can be distinguished by the foramen magnum towards the back of the skull, having no tail, and having a hook nose (Larsen
NON HUMAN PRIMATES Non human primates’ social organization can provide useful information how human social evolution occurs. We will go over main points of how similar and different non human primates such as chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas’ society are compared to ours, humans. Chimpanzee Social Organization and Communication Chimpanzees (Figure 1) are the closest living relatives to us, and they share 99 percent of our DNA (1). Chimpanzees have distinct group territoriality. Male chimpanzees