Mother's Orangutan Love

by Jennie Breeze

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Mother's Orangutan Love

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Jennie Breeze

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Photograph - Original Img_1301

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Digitally enhanced photograph of an Orangutan and baby. In the Malay language, the word orang means person and utan means forest, so their name means 'person of the forest'. Orangutans have the closest mother-offspring relationships of all nonhuman primates. Offspring remain with their mothers for seven or eight years. Adult males are the most solitary of the apes, whereas females travel with their youngsters and at times with other females as well. They are similar to humans in their anatomy, physiology, and behavior, sharing 97 percent of the same genetic material. They are intelligent, can make and use tools, and show evidence of distinct cultural patterns. They have excellent color vision, opposable thumbs, big toes, and grasping hands.They have long, shaggy, orange-red hair. They are endangered due to habitat loss and capture for the illegal pet trade. Their rainforest homes are rapidly declining due to illegal logging, mining, farming, oil palm plantations, and human overpopulation. Orangutan populations have declined more than 50 percent in the last decade. Orangutans are the largest tree-dwelling mammal. This photograph was taken at the Los Angeles Zoo.

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October 26th, 2014

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