5400 x 3600 px | 45,7 x 30,5 cm | 18 x 12 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
17. Juni 2012
Ort:
Brookfield Zoo, Illinois
Weitere Informationen:
The Great Red Ape Essence of apes Orangutans are apes. So are gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, gibbons, and humans. But monkeys are different from—and smaller than—apes. What makes an ape an ape? Apes don't have a tail, and their arms are longer than their legs. Apes also have a wide chest, while monkeys have a a more barrel shaped torso. Apes have a more upright posture than monkeys and a larger brain and braincase, too. Solitary, sometimes Orangutans are the only apes that lead a generally solitary life. Because they are arboreal, orangutans have fewer predators than the other apes. There is security in numbers as they say, but with fewer predators there is less advantage to group living. As large mammals, orangutans need to consume large quantities of food, so traveling in a group would make it difficult for everyone to find enough food. You can however, find many orangutans feeding together peacefully and even socializing when there are large trees full of fruit! In zoos where there is plenty of food, orangutans are extremely social apes. The strongest social bond among orangutans is between a mother and her offspring. They stay together until the youngster is eight or ten years old, sharing a leafy nest the mother builds high up in a tree. Orangutans are orange Orangutans are colorful mammals, but they were not named for their distinctive orange-ish color, as it may sound. Anyway, not all orangutans are orange. Some are reddish-orange and some are maroon. In fact, "orangutan" is the Malay word for "forest people" or "man of the forest."
