The orangutans are 3 extant species of Great Apes Native to Indonesia and Malaysia
The name "orangutan" is derived from the Malay and Indonesian and words orang meaning "person" and hutan meaning "forest" thus "person of the forest"
Orangutans are opportunistic foragers and their diets vary markedly from month to month
Fruit makes up 65–90% of the orangutan diet, and those with sugary or fatty or pulp are favoured.
Orangutans live a more solitary lifestyle than the other great apes. Most social bonds occur between adult females and their dependent and weaned offspring. Adult males and independent adolescents of both sexes tend to live alone
Orangutans communicate with various sounds. Males will make long calls, both to attract females and advertise themselves to other males
Males mature at around 15 years of age, by which time they have fully descended testicles and can reproduce
Female orangutans experience their first ovulatory cycle around 5.8–11.1 years.
Female orangutans have eight-year intervals between births, the longest interbirth intervals among the great apes
Male orangutans play almost no role in raising the young. Females do most of the caring and socializing of the young
In December 2014, Argentina became the first country to recognize a non-human primate as having legal rights when it ruled that an orangutan named Sandra at the Buenos Aires Zoo must be moved to a sanctuary in Brazil in order to provide her "partial or controlled freedom".
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