Their eyes hold a story that is indecipherable and yet intuitively we relate to them. Just one look into those eyes and you are hooked.
Orangutans are highly intelligent with an ability to reason and think.
This large, gentle red ape is our forgotten relative. Indigenous peoples of Indonesia and Malaysia call this ape Orang Hutan literally translating into English as People of the Forest. In times past they would not kill them because they felt the orangutan was simply a person hiding in the trees, trying to avoid having to go to work or become a slave. The orangutan is the only strictly arboreal ape and the largest tree living mammal in the world. Even the hair color of the orangutan, a bright reddish brown, is unique in the ape world.