Differences Between Sumatran and Borneon Orangutan

Sumatran Orangutan

- Smaller in size.
- Tends to be more frugivorous and especially insectivorous.
- Prefered fruits. It also eat bird eggs and small veterbrates.
- More social than Borneon counterpart.
- Interval birth rates of Sumatran Orangutan is longer than the Borneon.
- The Sumatran Orangutan is endemic to Sumatran island and is particularly restricted in the north of the island.

Borneon Orangutan

- Native to the island of Borneo
- Lives in tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests in the island Borneon lowlands.
- Its diet consist of fruits as well as shoots, barks and bird eggs. It also eats insects but to a lesser extent that the Sumatran Orangutan.
- More solitary.

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Orang utan...

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1. Orang utan have long, powerful arms which they used to swing from tree to tree, like humans, they have opposable thumbs, which help them grasp things with their hands and feet. Their other recognisable features include a sloping forehead with bald patches, small, rounded ears and a short trunk and legs.
2. They move from tree to tree daily, making nest in which their sleeps from branches, twigs and leaves.
3. Male orang utans are tend to be loners and maintain a fair distance from each other. Other than a brief of  time spent for mating with females, their social interaction with other orang utan are limited. Sexually matured males can be distinguished from females by way their large throat sac, which is used to make a distinct bellowing groan, which is called a 'long call'. This groan warns other males to sat away while letting know females they're looking to mate. They also have a large pack of cheekpdas, which is though to enhance the volume of their long call within the forest.
4. The legs of an orang utan are about twice as short as their arms, and their fingers and toes curved, giving them a much stronger grip on branches. This also causes them to walk in the outside edges of  their feet rather than their soles. And because of their hip joints are connected differently, they are also are less restricted in their leg movement compared to humans.
5. Orang utans spend most of their time in trees, a trait that's referred to as 'arboreal'.
6. Mother orang utans very care for their young. Female orang utan can grow up to 4 feet 2 inches and weigh about 45 kg. Females tend to be sexually passive and wait for the male's 'long call' to her when it's time to mate.
7. Orang utans have distinctively rich, red or reddish brown coat of shaggy fur which helps them to blend in with the brown tree trunks and branches in the forest.
8. Baby orang utans whimper when their in pain, when they're hungry, squeal when they want their mother, and smile when they're happy. Legend has it that just like humans, orang utans are gifted the ability to speak but don't for fear of being put to work.
9. Young orang utans stay with their mothers until they reach 6 or 7 years of age. While females tend to stay close to their mothers and within a certain range of their mothers', young males leave to move far away to help minimise in-breeding.
10. Fruit, tree bark, young, tender leaves, honey, insects and vines are what orang utans eat. A favourite fruit of theirs : The rich, creamy durian. Some orang utans also eat soil, which contain minerals that are thought to counteract the large quantities of toxic tannins and acids in the food they eat.

Human-Orang Utan Conflict Research

Since Autumn 2006, Born Free has been supporting ground-breaking research into human-orangutan conflict in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Under the leadership of Gail Campbell-Smith, a PhD student at the Durrell Institute of Conservation Ecology, seven Indonesian field assistants have been funded by Born Free to assist with the two-year fieldwork.

With Indonesia’s tropical rainforest being continually depleted, and the remaining tracts of wild areas becoming ever-more fragmented from each other, orangutans are being forced to forage on farmland to supplement their fast-disappearing forest food sources. The result is direct conflict with humans, equally dependent on their crops to survive. Such competition invariably impacts negatively on both humans, in terms of economic losses from damaged crops, as well as orangutans, who are often trapped, poisoned or shot by understandably vengeful farmers.

The project aims to not only highlight and better understand the nature and extent of increasing competition between orangutans and humans for land and food, but also to explore and develop ways in which local communities can be encouraged to identify and implement solutions to the problem.

The research should be completed in Autumn 2008, and the completed thesis will be made available to read online during 2009.

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About Orang Utan Island, Bukit Merah

Orang Utan Island is located within the exotic, eco-friendly getaway of Bukit Merah Laketown Resort, a 7,000 acre freshwater lakeside haven in Semanggol, Perak. The Orang Utan Island itself, which was formerly known as Pulau Panjang, comprises a vast 35 acre area, 5 acres of which has been set aside as a research centre for these endangered primates.

Developed by renowned Malaysian property developer MK Land thanks to its founder,YBhg Tan Sri Datuk Hj. Mustapha Kamal, the island, which opened in 2000, is the first of its kind in the world, and designed to resemble the orang utan’s natural rainforest habitat as much as possible. As such, its red-haired residents are able to roam freely within their lush, jungle environment while visitors view them from safe, enclosed spaces built within a dedicated viewing area.

It was within the nurturing borders of this island that the Orang Utan Island Research and Development Programme was born in an effort to study, breed, monitor, train and rehabilitate the increasingly endangered orang utan.

Led by Dr. Sabapathy Dharmalingam, the research center’s veterinary service manager, the island’s medical and research team has been dedicating their full resources to caring for, breeding, monitoring, training and rehabilitating the primates there in an effort to increase the population of healthy orang utans in the wild.

The island also serves as a valuable educational tool for reaching out to people who may know nothing about the crisis the orang utans are facing, and how close they are to becoming extinct. Upon their visit to the island, visitors are exposed to all aspects of the orang utan’s existence, including how they behave, eat, breed and socialise, and the dangers they face.

Having started with just 3 orang utans in 1999, the island’s primate population has grown to 23, 12 of which were born on the island itself. The centre’s rehabilitation programme focuses on teaching the orang utans the essential skills they need to survive in the wild, such as foraging for food, nest building, tree climbing and socialising, in anticipation for their eventual release into their natural habitat.

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The Orang Utans need your help. Here's why.

An article from  Bukit Merah Orang Utan Island Foundation

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It is not just the orang utan that is in danger - worldwide, the other great apes, including the chimpanzee and gorilla, also face extinction if nothing is done to save their habitats.

The orang utan population within the Indonesian island of Sumatra in 1996 was measured at approximately 10,000. Today, they number at less than 6,000. In Borneo, fewer than 15,000 orang utans remain from an estimated 20,000, 12 years ago. These are the last two remaining homes to the orang utan, worldwide.

Almost 80% of their original habitats across South-East Asia, where they live, are now gone as a result of forest fires, natural disasters, land clearing for human development, mining, and illegal poaching. If nothing is done to counteract these devastating effects, experts estimate that the orang utan could become extinct in the wild in as few as 10 years.

One of the pioneers of the on-going mission to restore the world’s orang utan population was Birute Galdikas – a renowned primatologist, conservationist and ethologist who has made it her life-long mission to study the red-haired primates. Galdikas, the late Dianne Fossey (who dedicated her life to saving gorillas) and Jane Goodall (who studied chimpanzees and founded the Jane Goodall Institute), are collectively referred to as ‘Leakey’s Angels’, named after the late archaeologist Louis Leakey, who had worked with all three women.

With your help, researchers at the Orang Utan Island Bukit Merah can help to turn this situation around by playing a crucial role in the global effort to save the orang utan. Click here to find out how you can do your part in our efforts to save them.