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Their
diet is fruit and plant materials including leaves, bark, flowers, and nut,
occasionally they feast on insects and small mammals |
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Orang-utans
accumulate fat in winter to prepare for the monsoon season in April through
to October, when food is scarce. Orang-utans are solitary creatures. Except
when mating, adults usually travel and forage for food independently. When a
female is ready to mate, she will seek out an adult male. The pair will stay
together for several days until the female is pregnant, then they will resume
their solitary ways. |
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Females
give birth to a single infant about once every 4 to 8 years. Infants stay very
close to their mother for the first 3 years until they are weaned. They spend
the next 3 to 5 years becoming increasingly independent of their mother, gaining
complete independence at about 8 years of age |
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Occasionally,
an adult female with a youngster will pair up with another adult female and
her young for up to 3 days, during which time the youngsters play together. |
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Although
it is illegal to kill, own, or export orang-utans, poaching continues. Also,
the orang-utan habitat is rapidly diminishing as a result of large-scale logging
and burning of forests. The massive forest fires on Sumatra and Borneo in 1997
and 1998 killed thousands of orang-utans and destroyed the habitat of thousands
more, endangering the survival of the species. |
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This is my Website on Orangutans,I hope you like it!
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