The name orangutan means 'man of the forest' in Malay language and the apes actually have more than 97% of the same DNA as humans do. There are three different species of orangutan in the world.
There are three different species of Orangutan in the world, though they were once considered to be one species. Native to Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans in the wild can only be found in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. It is estimated that there are approximately 100,000 Bornean orangutan left so they are now considered an endangered species. There are only 7,500 Sumatran orangutans left in the world so they are classified as critically endangered.
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