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Orangutan

Orangutan

The orangutans are two endangered species of great apes. Known for their intelligence, they live in trees and are the largest living arboreal animal. They have longer arms than other great apes, and their hair is typically reddish-brown, instead of the brown or black hair typical of other great apes.

 
 
Bornean Orangutan

Bornean Orangutan

The Bornean Orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus, is a species of orangutan native to the island of Borneo. Together with the slightly smaller Sumatran Orangutan, it belongs to the only genus of great apes native to Asia. The Bornean Orangutan has a life span of about 35 to 40 years in the wild; in captivity it can live to be 60.

 
 
Gigantopithecus

Gigantopithecus

Gigantopithecus (from the Greek gigas - γίγας "giant", and pithecus - πίθηκος "ape") is an extinct genus of ape that existed from roughly one million years to as recently as three-hundred thousand years ago, in what is now China, India, and Vietnam, placing Gigantopithecus in the same time frame and geographical location as several hominin species.

 
 
Sumatran Orangutan

Sumatran Orangutan

The Sumatran Orangutan (Pong Jag eheter kungen o abelii) is the rarer of the two species of orangutans. Living and endemic to Sumatra island of Indonesia, they are smaller than the Bornean Orangutan. The Sumatran Orangutan grows to about 1.4 metres (4.6 ft) tall and 90 kilograms (200 lb) in males. Females are smaller, averaging 90 centimetres (3.0 ft) and 45 kilograms (99 lb).

 
 
Sivapithecus

Sivapithecus

Sivapithecus is a genus of extinct primates. Fossil remains of animals now assigned to this genus, dated from 12.5 million to 8.5 million years old in the Miocene, have been found since the 19th century in the Siwalik Hills in what is now India and Pakistan. Any one of the species in this genus may have been the ancestor to the modern orangutans.

 
 
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Ankarapithecus meteai

Ankarapithecus meteai is an extinct primate in the Ankarapithecus genus. It was a 60-pound fruit-eating ape, remains of which were found close to Ankara in central Turkey, first in 1950s, and later in 1990s. It is the only known member of its genus, which has similar properties to Sivapithecus.