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Orangutan
| Orangutan Temporal range:
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| Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Hominidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponginae |
| Genus: | Pongo Lacépède, 1799 |
| Type species | |
| Pongo pygmaeus | |
| Species | |
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Pongo pygmaeus | |
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| Range of the three extant species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Faunus Oken, 1816 | |
Orangutans (Pongo) are great apes belonging to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia. There are two species of orangutan. They are from Southeast Asia. There are very few of them left, because loss of the jungle has reduced their habitat. There are orangutans on view at the Singapore zoo.
The name orangutan comes from two Malay words, orang which means person, and hutan which means forest; so orangutan means person of the forest.[1]
- ↑ "Orangutan Facts –". orangutans-sos.org. Sumatran Orangutan Society. 2011. Archived from the original on 23 August 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
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