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Orangutans
By: Melissa Moscow☻
• Orangutans live on a island of Borneo and Sumatra. Sumatra and Borneo
are islands in Indonesia.
• They eat leaves , bark, flowers, nuts, seeds, eggs and vegetables.
Orangutans eat a lot if fruit.
• They enjoy figs, mangoes, bananas, and plums. Orangutans spend most of
their lives in the Rainforest . They sleep in nests high in trees.
• Adult Orangutans are about 5 feet 1.5 meters tall.
• Orangutans have long strong arms to swing between branches. Males
weigh from 150 to 200 pounds (68 – 9 kilograms)
• Females are as about half as large. Some Females weigh 120-150
pounds
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Poaching
Environment being destroyed
Lack of food
Destruction of the tropical rainforest in
Borneo and Sumatra
• Orangutans eat 400 different food in the wild
• The word Orangutan means person of the
forest
• When it rains Orangutans build covers over
their there 20 to 80 feet nests above the
ground to stay dry
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• Some fruits are hard to eat because they are
covered with sharp hairs. Instead of using
their teeth they use a stick to crack it open