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Sumatran Orangutan

Pongo abelii

IUCN Red List status: Critically endangered

IUCN Red List status

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1,239 observations
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Mammals

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About

The Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) is one of the three species of orangutans. 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 of Sumatra. Its common name is based on two separate local words, "orang" ("people" or "person") and "hutan" ("forest"), and translates as 'person of the forest'.

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