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Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)
Subject: Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)
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Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)


Orangutan sitting on a tree branch looking directly at viewer
Title Orangutan
Object type illustration
Subjects Simia satyrus (Linnaeus, 1758) (now known as Pongo pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1760)
Inscriptions bottom center: Orang [Orangutan]
Date published 1 January 1916
Source Lydekker, Richard. Wild life of the world,v. 1, London: F. Warne and Co., 1916.
Author: Richard Lydekker (1849–1915)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orangutan_(illustration).jpg

The Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) is a species of orangutan native to the island of Borneo. The Bornean orangutan lives in tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests in the Bornean lowlands and mountainous areas. It can be found in the two Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, and three of the four Indonesian Provinces of Kalimantan.

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Scientific Name: Pongo pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1760)
Common Names: Bornean Orangutan, Orangutan; [French] Orang-outan de Bornéo; [Spanish] Orang-után
Synonyms:
Simia pygmaeus Linnaeus, 1760
Simia satyrus Linnaeus, 1758

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