Updates On 19th Aug 2015

Orang-utans give birth to single young, or on occasion twins. After weaning at about 3.5 years of age, these youngsters become gradually independent of their mother.

They share a preference with humans for fertile alluvial plains and lowland valleys – a habitat once rich in tropical forests but is now being replaced with logging and agricultural concessions.

To help save Malaysia’s only great ape:

https://www.pandashop.my/adoptanorangutan/

To learn more about them: http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/endangered_species/great_apes/orangutans/borneo_orangutan/

Source: https://www.facebook.com/wwfmy/photos/a.159457438241.151903…

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