Sumatran orangutan
The Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) is one of the three species of orangutans. 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.
| Sumatran orangutan | |
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| Male at Leipzig Zoological Garden, Leipzig | |
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| Female with infant at the Tierpark Hellabrunn, Munich | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Hominidae |
| Genus: | Pongo |
| Species: | P. abelii |
| Binomial name | |
| Pongo abelii | |
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| Distribution in Indonesia | |
References
- Singleton, Ian; Wich, Serge A.; Nowak, Matthew G.; Usher, Graham; Utami-Atmoko, Sri Suchi (2017). "Pongo abelii (errata version published in 2018)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T121097935A123797627.
- Lesson, René-Primevère (1827). Manuel de mammalogie ou Histoire naturelle des mammifères (in French). Paris: Roret, Libraire. p. 32.
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