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The Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) is a species of orangutan native to the island of Borneo.
Together with the slightly smaller Sumatran Orangutan, it belongs to the only genus of great apes native to Asia.
The Bornean Orangutan has a life span of about 35 to 40 years in the wild; in captivity it can live to be 60.
A survey of wild orangutans found that males are typically 75 kg, ranging from 50–100 kg, and 1.1-1.4 m long; females averaging 38.5 kg, ranging from 30–50 kg, and 1-1.2 m.
The Bornean Orangutan lives in tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests in the Bornean lowlands as well as mountainous areas 1500 m in elevation.
It lives at different heights in the trees and moves large distances to find trees bearing fruit.
The Bornean Orangutan travels on the ground more than its Sumatran counterpart.
Its diet consists of fruit as well as shoots, bark, and bird eggs. It also eats insects but to a lesser extent than the Sumatran Orangutan. Bornean Orangutans have been seen using spears to catch fish.
The Bornean Orangutan is more common than the Sumatran, with about 45,000 individuals existing in the wild; there are only about 7,500 of the Sumatran species left in the wild. Orangutans are becoming increasingly endangered due to habitat destruction and the bushmeat trade, and young orangutans are captured to be sold as pets, usually entailing the killing of their mothers.
The Bornean Orangutan is endangered according to the IUCN Red List of mammals.
This picture was taken in Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, the Netherlands.

De Borneose of Borneo orang-oetan (Pongo pygmaeus) is een mensaap uit het geslacht der orang-oetans (Pongo). De andere soort is de Sumatraanse orang-oetan (Pongo abelii). Lang werden de twee soorten als ondersoorten van dezelfde soort, de orang-oetan, beschouwd, maar genetisch onderzoek heeft aangetoond dat de twee aparte soorten zijn. Zoals de naam al aangeeft, komt deze bedreigde soort enkel voor op het Indonesische eiland Borneo.
De Borneose orang-oetan heeft een donkere oranjerode vacht, zeer lange armen en sterke grijphanden en -voeten, een aanpassing aan het leven in bomen.
Het dier wordt 1,1 tot 1,4 kg lang en 30 tot 100 kg zwaar. Mannetjes worden veel groter dan vrouwtjes.
De Borneose Orang-oetan heeft in het wild een levensverwachting van 35 tot 40 jaar. In gevangenschap kunnen ze 60 jaar worden.
De orang-oetan brengt het grootste deel van zijn leven door in bomen. 's Nachts slaapt de aap in een nest, hoog in de bomen, die hij zelf heeft gemaakt door takken te vlechten.
Overdag besteedt de orang-oetan het grootste deel van de tijd aan het zoeken naar vlezige vruchten. Omdat de planten verspreid over het bos staan en ieder hun eigen bloeitijd hebben, en daardoor slechts enkele weken per jaar voedzame producten leveren, moet de orang-oetan een goed geheugen hebben om te weten wanneer en waar voedsel te vinden is. Behalve vruchten eet de orang-oetan ook ander plantaardige kost als boomschors, bladeren, scheuten, lianen en het merg in takken en stengels.
Een enkele keer eet hij ook ander materiaal, als eieren, honing, termieten en andere insecten en kleine gewervelde dieren en jonge vogeltjes.
Deze foto is genomen in Ouwehands Dierenpark in Rhenen.

Info: Wikipedia
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Site Ouwehands Dierenpark / Zoo in Dutch, English and German: www.ouwehand.nl/
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Taken in: Nederland / Utrecht / Rhenen (show map)

Taken on: April 11, 2010

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