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Female orangutans give birth, on average, only once every eight years.
Orangutan numbers are falling dramatically because of poaching and habitat destruction. Monkeys have tails, apes don't. Brain scans found that orangutans, gorillas, chimps and bonobos all were left-brained, too. Monkeys, lower on the evolutionary scale, were not. While the world's human population has grown steadily to above 5.7 billion people, great apes are declining and now number fewer than 400,000.