🐒Sumatran orangutan
The Sumatran orangutan is one of the three species of orangutans. Critically endangered, and found only in the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, it is rarer than the Bornean orangutan but more common than the recently identified Tapanuli orangutan, also found in Sumatra.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.
- Body mass
- 53 kg
- Body length
- 1.2 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 60 years
Everything we know about the Sumatran orangutan
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass53 kgCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length1.2 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass389 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan60 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length25 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity7.5 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation259 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter size1COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density2.2 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l53 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 Sumatran orangutan yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderPrimates
- ›familyHominidae
- ›genusPongo
- ›speciesPongo abelii
- classMammals · Mammalia
- infraorderSimiiformes
- subfamilyPonginae
- genusPongo
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- suborderHaplorrhini
- infraorderSimiiformes
- subfamilyPonginae
- genusPongo
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