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Popular General Tips | Miscellaneous General Tips Tips | All Tips (7) Mothers will care for their offspring for about eight years. Unfortunately, there is still the danger of poaching. Unscrupulous poachers will kill a mother orangutan in order to kidnap the young orangutan. It is still a badge of honor in some circles to keep young orangutans as pets. When they get older and are no longer suitable for living in or around a home they are discarded or killed.
The Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Center cares for orphaned orangutans and they are lovingly taught orangutan skills by the dedicated staff. A two year old orangutan will not develop skills necessary to survive by pure instinct alone. Just like humans, most of the skills that an adult orangutan possesses are learned rather than inate. Leave a Comment
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The Orang Utan you find in Sepilok is one of the two sorts of Orang Utans there are in the world. In Sepilok you'll see the Borneo Orang Utan (Pongo pygmaeus), the other sort is the Sumatra Orang Utan.
Statistics:
An Orang Utan get reach a height of 1.50 metres, in very few cases this can be taller. The width with his arms spread can reach an amazing 2.25 metres! The animals have a weight of up to 100 kilos, although in zoo's that can be double that weight. An Orang Utan can get 30 years old in the wildernis, in capitivity that can be over 50 years. Interesting to know: Orang Utans DNA is 96,4% the same as human DNA. No wonder you will find a lot of similarities between us, in both looks as behaviour.
How the Orang Utans live
Borneo Orang Utans nowadays only live the mountains of the island. They used to lived all over the island, but due to timbertrade and hunters their population has decreased rapidly in the past decades.
It takes a pregnant Orang Utan mother between 255 and 275 days to give birth to a baby. After that period the baby is fed by the mother for 3 to 4 years, a period in which the mother is not able to get pregnant again. For this reason a female Orang Utan can give birth to 6 babies in her life maximum.
Just as humans the Orang Utans are omnivours: all-eaters. They feed themselves with fruits, leaves, mushrooms, insects, lizards or eggs. Leave a Comment
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