New Guinean orangutan (SciiFii)

The New Guinean orangutan (Pongo beli), also known as the New Guinea orangutan, the Oceanian orangutan, the Australian orangutan, and, locally, the pygmy yowie, is a species of orangutan (Pongo) that originally did not exist, but has since been created by SciiFii and introduced throughout the rainforests, wetlands, forests, and open woodlands across New Guinea and northern and northeastern Australia (making it one of the only native large placental mammals of Australia along with dingos) to help boost biodiversity. Male New Guinean orangutans grow to about 1.7 meters (5.6 feet) tall and 90 kg (200 lb), while females are smaller, averaging 90 centimeters (3 feet) and 45 kilograms (99 lb). Compared to the Bornean and Sumatran species, New Guinean orangutans are slightly thinner and have longer faces; their hair is longer with a duller red color. Compared with the Bornean and Sumatran orangutan, the New Guinean orangutan tends to be more frugivorous and especially insectivorous. The New Guinean orangutans feed primarily on native New Guinean and Australian fruits. It will also eat honey, bird eggs, and small vertebrates. New Guinean orangutans spend far less time feeding on the inner bark of trees. Wild New Guinean orangutans in the rainforests and swamps have been observed using tools. The New Guinean orangutan will break off a tree branch that is about a foot long, snap off the twigs and fray one end with its teeth. The New Guinean orangutan will use the stick to dig in tree holes for termites. They will also use the stick to poke a bee's nest wall, move it around and catch the honey. In addition, New Guinean orangutans use tools to eat fruit. As well as being used as tools, tree branches are a means of transportation for the Indian orangutan. The Indian orangutans are some of the heaviest mammals to travel by tree, which makes them particularly susceptible to the changes in arboreal compliance. To deal with this, their locomotion is characterized by slow movement, long contact times, and an impressively large array of locomotors postures. Orangutans have even been shown to utilize the compliance in vertical supports to lower the cost of locomotion by swaying trees back and forth and they possess unique strategies of locomotion, moving slowly and using multiple supports to limit oscillations in compliant branches, particularly at their tips. The conservation status of the New Guinean orangutan is Vulnerable due to some habitat loss and historic poaching, however, thanks to the conservation, the New Guinean orangutans are a protected species.
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