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SpeciesPrimatesHominidae
Primates

🦧Bornean orangutan

Pongo pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1760)

Борнейският орангутан (Pongo pygmaeus) е вид бозайник от семейство Човекоподобни (Hominidae). Видът е критично застрашен от изчезване.

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75
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2
Measurements
13
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Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
59 kg
Body length
1.2 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
60 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Bornean orangutan

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
59 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 64 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
1.2 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
364 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
60 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 59 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
20 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
9.1 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
259 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 249 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Omnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
3.88 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
2.13 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
59 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Bornean orangutan yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderPrimates
  5. ›familyHominidae
  6. ›genusPongo
  7. ›speciesPongo pygmaeus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. infraorderSimiiformes
  3. subfamilyPonginae
  4. genusPongo
All 14 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. suborderHaplorrhini
  12. infraorderSimiiformes
  13. subfamilyPonginae
  14. genusPongo
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More about the Bornean orangutan

Closest relative on this site
🐒 Bonobo — last shared an ancestor ≈ 10 million years ago.
What it eats
fruit89%
insects and other invertebrates11%
In other languages
orangutan de Borneo (ca), orangutan bornejský (cs), Borneo-Orang-Utan (de), اورانگوتان بورنئویی (fa), borneonoranki (fi), Orang-outan de Bornéo (fr) … and 25 more languages

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