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 * Research:**

//**1. Where does your animal live, and what are its characteristics?

Locate your animal’s habitat (Where does it live? Does it migrate?)**//

-The orangutan lives on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra in Southeast Asia. -The orangutan does not migrate.

//**Include all subspecies or varieties of your animal.**//

-The scientific name for the orangutan is Pongo pygmaeus. -Two subspecies of the orangutan are P. pygmaeus abelii found in Sumatra and P. pygmaeus pygmaeus found in Borneo.

//**Identify at least 10 characteristics that will give an in-depth, accurate description of your animal**//

- Short - thick body - long arms - short legs - quiet - shaggy red coat - males have cheek flap - air sac hanging from the throat - weigh up to 285 lbs. - grow up to 4.5 ft. -

//**2. Where and why is your animal endangered?

Locate where it is endangered (might not be endangered in all its habitats)**//

-Orangutans are endangered in the jungles of Borneo and Sumatra, the only habitats of the orangutan left today.

//**Identify the factors, environmental and/or anthropogenic (caused by man) that cause it to be endangered**//

-In the past orangutans lived in mainland Southeast Asia, but with the wide spread destruction of their habitat and hunting. Now the orangutans live on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra.

//**Provide statistics and other facts related to its endangerment**//

- Total forest area in Indonesia is 888,495,000 hectares. - Estimates suggest that 98% of Indonesia’s forests will be destroyed by 2022. - In Sumatra 3.4 million hectares of forest have disappeared in 12 years.

//**3. Where is your animal in captivity and/or conserved?

Locate at least two zoos and/or conservation centers where the animal is held.**//

-ZOOS- The Atlanta Zoo, Chester Zoo (UK), Zoo Base Zoologischer Garten Basel ( Swit.) -CONSERVATION CAMPS- Monkey World, Center Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation, Orangutan Foundation International, -Orangutan Foundation UK, Tanjung Puting National Park ( Indonesia), Orangutan Care Centre in Central Kalimantan

//**4. What is being done to restore your animal’s populations? Where is it being done?

Locate where research is done on your animal and where efforts are underway to conserve its population (Note: It may be that this is done at the same location(s) you identified in #3)**//

- Monkey World - Center Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation - Orangutan Foundation International - Orangutan Foundation UK - Tanjung Puting National Park (Indonesia) - Orangutan Care Centre in Central Kalimantan

//**Identify the experts, leaders, and/or groups guiding the conservation**//

- Dr. Biruté Galdikas - Dr. Louis Leakey - Species Survival Network

//**Outline any research and efforts to conserve the population**//

- The Orangutan Foundation International is giving orangutans a safe place to live. They even have saved many orphans so they can have a life. This organization has set up many locations in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Recently they have made a park that is 76,000 hectares called, Lamandau.


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Bibliography (All Resources Used) Thank you Ucamari for the Orangutan picture. http://flickr.com/photos/ucumari/523235741/ Thank you syukaery for letting us use your orangutan photo.http://flickr.com/photos/ytse-jam/539953423/ Thank you hobbs8calvin for letting us use your photo.http://flickr.com/photos/smaira/443030119/ http://school.eb.com/ [|http://www.oranguta][|n.org.uk/] http://www.thebigzoo.com/Animals/Orangutan.asp Google Earth http://www.orangutan.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11&Itemid=24 Thank you Doug Fisher for letting us use your orangutan picture. http://www.flickr.com/photos/douglas-fisher/146902911/ Thank you Ryan Guill for letting us use your photo. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanguill/1438588362/ Thank you loochie for letting us use your photo. http://www.flickr.com/photos/67833581@N00/407704086/**