Orangutan is a kind of great apes with long arms and reddish or brown hairy. Orangutan is an endangered species in Indonesia. Orangutans are only around Sumatra and Borneo. Here are some facts about orangutans:
1. Orangutans have a behavior that resembles humans. Orangutan babies usually cry like a human. Young orangutans often screaming and throwing a tantrum. While the adult male orangutan can make a sound that can be heard up to a radius of one kilometer.
2. Orangutans can communicate with body language. British researchers have spent nine months observed in three European zoos, and the results are 40 bodies language signals are often used by orangutans. The words they spoke frequently through body language are: I want to play, Give it to me, Go away, Follow me, or stop doing that.
3. Orangutan males much larger than females. The size of his face changed dramatically as he grew older with a beard and mustache. The males will also have wide cheek pads and throat pouches under the chin.
4. Orangutans usually give birth to one baby, very rare multiple births. The gestation period is the same as the human that is nine months.
5. Orangutans have predators, especially humans. Previously, leopard and Sumatran tigers are their natural predators, but humans have killed most of them too.
6. Orangutans can use a stick as a tool to take food, and use the leaves as sun protection.
7. Orangutans can move quickly from tree to tree by means of swinging on tree branches. They can also walk on two feet, but rarely found. Orangutans cannot swim.
8. Orangutans do not live in groups such as the Chimpanzee or Gorilla, Orangutan males are usually found alone and female orangutan usually accompanied by some of his children.
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