Orangutan
Pongo abelii
CLASSIFICATION
Kingdom Animalia: All animals are multicellular and lack cell walls. They are also heterotrophs, which means they consume other organisms to get their own energy. They also have the ability to move at some point in their life.
Phylum Chordata: They have a closed blood system, complete digestive system, bilateral symmetry, and most of the time they have an endoskeleton.
Subphylum Vertebrata: They have a backbone and digestive system with large glands, liver, and a pancreas. Mostly, they also have a moving ability by muscles joined with the endoskeleton.
Class Mammalia: They have hair at one point of their development,have a highly developed brain, and a palate separating air and food passages in the mouth. Most of them also give birth to live young.
Order Primates: They are mostly recognized by their characteristics of their skull, teeth,and limbs. They also have large brain cases, a radius and ulna in the fore limb, and a tibia and a fibula in the hind.
Family Hominidae: They are omnivores meaning that they eat both meat and plants. Mostly males are larger than females in weight and height. They are also known for being arboreal, meaning that they mostly live up in trees.
Genus: orangutan
Species: Pongo abellii
GENERAL DISCRIPTION
Weight: Male- Up to 260 pounds Female- 140 pounds
Color: They range in colors from bright orange and maroon to dark brown.
Diet: They eat mangos,figs,insects, bark,leaves, and fruit.
Predators: Humans are their only predators. They are destroying their habitat by cutting down trees. That's a reason why orangutans are on the endangered species list.
Habitat: They live in tropical rain forests,hilly lowland areas, and terrains with dense tree growths. To find the orangutan in it's natural habitat you will have to go to the island of Sumatra or Borneo.
Take cover, don't want my hair getting wet!
Mother and child love
I'm comin' down
Adaptations
Physical Adaptations
Behavioral Adaptations
References
References
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