Bornean orangutan
Pongo pygmaeus
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Pongo pygmaeus
- Class
- Mammal
- Order
- Primate
- Family
- Hominidae
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Size
- Medium (1–2 m)
- Active
- By day
- Continent
- Asia
- Habitat
- Rainforest
- Conservation status
- Critically endangered
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- Each evening it builds a fresh sleeping nest of branches high in a tree.
- Its name comes from Malay words meaning person of the forest.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q599672 · All animals · All entries