Orangutan

Orangutan Temporal range: Early Pleistocene – Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)
Scientific classification
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 Lacépède, 1799 (Simia satyrus Linnaeus, 1760)
Species
Pongo pygmaeus Pongo abelii Pongo tapanuliensis †Pongo hooijeri †Pongo weidenreichi
Range of the three extant species
Synonyms
Faunus Oken, 1816 Lophotus Fischer, 1813 Macrobates Billberg, 1828 Satyrus Lesson, 1840

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]

1. ↑ "Orangutan Facts –". orangutans-sos.org. Sumatran Orangutan Society. 2011. Archived from the original on 23 August 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2011.