### animal | vertebrate | mammal | primate | ape:

Orangutan
* Most orangutans are four to five feet long, some can reach a length of six feet
  - change behavior
  - consume fruit
* Most orangutans develop ability
  - amaze ability
* Most orangutans eat bananas
  - leaves
  - young leaves
  - establish ranges
  - find food
* Most orangutans have ability
  - development
  - hands
  - heads
  - life
  - physical development
  - strength
  - tremendous strength
* Most orangutans live in degrade habitats
  - few places
  - forests
  - trees
* Most orangutans occupy large overlap home ranges
  - overlap ranges
* Most orangutans possess cheek pads
* Most orangutans reach adolescence
  - adulthood
  - sexual maturity
  - resemble men
  - survive in environments
* Some orangutans adapt to homes.
* Some orangutans affect forest regeneration
  - avoid contact
  - become mothers
* Some orangutans beg for food
  - solid food
  - chew on leaves
  - come from rainforests
* Some orangutans come into frequent close contact
* Some orangutans display brown color
  - hair color
  - eat meat
  - feed on minerals
* Some orangutans have childhood
  - important roles
  - lower reproductive output
  - natural predators
  - help kids
  - hold hands
  - leave mothers
  - provide meat
* Some orangutans share ancestors
  - common ancestors
  - show differences
  - stay with parents
  - steal food
  - suffer isolation
* also build nests in the daytime to rest and play in
  - eat some flowers, honey, bark, leaves and insects
  - have incredible strength, particularly in their upper bodies
  - live in dry forests that cover the foothills of mountains
* are almost unique among primate species
  - also keystone species found in tropical rainforests
  - among the most intelligent primates
* are an easy target for hunters because they're large and slow targets
  - endangered species
  - born with an ability to reason and think
  - cautious climbers, and are mainly arboreal
  - descended from a prehistoric species which lived throughout Asia
  - diurnal which means they are active during the day
  - divided into two different subspecies
  - expert climbers
  - extremely flexible in the hip, knee, and shoulder joint
* are extremely intelligent and make their own tools
  - creatures who clearly have the ability to reason and think
  - patient and intelligent mammals
  - found only in the rain forests of the Southeast Asian islands of Borneo and Sumatra
  - from the rainforests on the islands Borneo and Sumatra in Southeast Asia
  - frugivores and play a vital role in the dispersal of seeds over a huge area
* are generally fruit eaters, because fruit is abundant in the forests they inhabit
  - good mothers, being very gentle and loving
  - non aggressive toward humans and each other
* are great apes, our closest living relatives on earth
* are highly arboreal and are quite awkward on the ground
  - endangered in the wild
* are highly intelligent and gentle animals
  - hominids
  - incredibly intelligent and are highly skilled puzzle-solvers
  - inhabit the forests on the islands Sumatra and Borneo
  - intelligent and generally peaceful vegetarians
* are intelligent apes that live in the forest of the Asian islands of Sumatra and Borneo
  - reproduce very slowly
  - just one of many species facing serious threats to survival at human hands
  - known for being cunning in captivity
  - large apes with long, red hair
* are large, but in general are quite gentle
  - red-haired animals with four hands and no tail
  - more solitary than other apes
  - mostly solitary, which is rare since primates usually have rich social lives
  - much stronger than humans and also bite
* are native apes from Indonesia
  - to the forests of Borneo and Sumatra
  - one of our closest relatives in the animal kingdom
  - only one of the rainforest's numerous inhabitants
  - opportunistic foragers , and their diets vary markedly from month to month
  - orange, but can still hide themselves in the trees
* are part of apes
* are primarily diurnal and arboreal
  - frugivorous
  - reddish-brown in color and some males grow white or yellow beards
  - secretive, highly intelligent, and well adapted to living in the tree tops
  - semi-solitary species but remain, to some degree, somewhat social
  - sexually dimorphic
  - similar, with no observations in the wild of eating meat
  - solitary creatures
  - subject to persecution because in some areas they become pests
* are the exception to the primate social norm, they lead solitary lives
  - first nonhuman species documented to do so
  - largest and the rarest of the Asian apes
* are the largest arboreal animal on the planet
  - mammal in the world
  - primate in Asia, excepting humans, of course
  - least social of the great apes, but individuals commonly interact
* are the loners and daydreamers of the great apes, highly intelligent problem solvers
  - the daydreamers of the great apes
* are the most arboreal of the great apes and spend most of their time in trees
  - at risk of the world's six species of apes
  - only animals besides humans to have fingerprints
* are the only apes in the world that are from Asia
  - that inhabit Asia
  - slowest breeding apes in the world
  - world's largest tree-dwelling animal
* are unique in many ways
  - the ape world
  - usually silent
* are very intelligent
  - similar to humans
  - wholly dependent on trees for their existence
* build crude nests, and they are the only animals who build a roof when it rains
  - day and night nests
  - nests specialized for both day or night use
* can eat a large amount of food
  - fashion probes from sticks for retrieving insects from their nests
  - find fruits in the water
  - grasp things with both their hands and their feet
  - hold, eat, and manipulate food using their hands or just their feet
* communicate with various sounds.
* construct a new sleeping platform every night.
* currently exist in just a small remnant of their former range.
* do it upside down.
  - bugs
  - primarily fruit and play an important role dispersing seeds through defecation
  - tropical fruits, leaves, sprouts, bark and insects
* exist only on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra.
* favor a fruit called durians.
* give birth only once every eight or nine years.
* have a large, bulky body
  - slow growth rate, somewhat comparable to humans
  - very important role in the food chain
* have an arm spread of about five feet
  - enormous arm span
  - babies
  - canine teeth
  - choices
  - four hands instead of two hands and two feet
  - high cognitive abilities comparable to the other great apes
  - individual personalities and characters
  - large brains and exhibit a high level of intelligence
  - long orange hair that covers most of their bodies
  - more to fear than just the fire
  - no serious predators except humans
  - red-brown fur
  - remarkable abilities for traveling through the forest canopy
  - strong teeth and jaws
* have the slowest breeding rate of all mammals
  - known life histories of any mammal
  - thin, shaggy, reddish-brown hair
* includes brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - nuclei
  - pedal extremities
  - piluses
  - plasma membranes
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - vacuoles
  - vertebrate feet
* just hang up there in the canopy.
* live a more solitary lifestyle than the other great apes
  - entirely in trees
* live in Africa
  - Indonesia and Malaysia on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo
  - Southeast Asia, in Borneo and Sumatra
  - a semisolitary social organization that is unique among monkeys and apes
  - humid jungles of Borneo and Sumatra
  - the canopy of the rain forest
  - tropical rain forests
  - mainly in the trees, only occasionally coming to the ground
  - semi-solitary lives in the wild
  - solitary lives with little bonding in evidence
* make up an endangered species.
* mate while swinging from tree branches.
* often build their nests in places where they have a good view of the surrounding forest
  - drop seeds while they are traveling though trees
  - nap in the afternoon after a morning spent obtaining food
* only have one baby at a time.
* play a critical role in seed dispersal, keeping forests healthy.
* rely more on facial expressions and body language to communicate.
* share features
  - unique features
* spend almost all of their time in the trees, eating fruit or resting in leafy nests.
* spend most of their life in the trees, swinging confidently from branch to branch
  - up to six hours a day eating or foraging for food
* still swing through the jungles and elephants and rhinoceroses roam the plains.
* suffer eviction at the hands of logging companies.
* typically eat fruits and leaves in nature, and very little animal matter.
* use a variety of tools and their powerful jaws to break into such fruits
  - compliant branches to lower the energetic cost of locomotion
+ Orangutan, Appearance: Hominids
  * Orangutans have red-brown fur. They have very long and strong arms. They also have hands that are good for climbing
  * Orangutans are from the rainforests on the islands Borneo and Sumatra in Southeast Asia. They mostly live up in the trees. They eat fruit, leaves and bark, but also insects, bird eggs and small vertebrate animals. They drink water from rain that has been collected in leaves. Orangutans are not comfortable on the ground since they have to push themselves along with fists. Heavy adults move carefully through the trees, using their flexible feet to grasp the tree branches