Sumatran orangutan
The Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) is one of the three species of orangutans. Critically endangered, and found only in the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, it is rarer than the Bornean orangutan but more common than the recently identified Tapanuli orangutan, also found in Sumatra. Its common name is based on two separate local words, "orang" ("people" or "person") and "hutan" ("forest"), derived from Malay, and translates as 'person of the forest'.
| Sumatran orangutan | |
|---|---|
| Male at Leipzig Zoological Garden, Leipzig | |
| Female with infant at the Tierpark Hellabrunn, Munich | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Hominidae |
| Genus: | Pongo |
| Species: | P. abelii |
| Binomial name | |
| Pongo abelii Lesson, 1827 | |
| Distribution in Indonesia | |
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