Orangutan An Endangered Mammal By Zachariah Grade 5 Grade 5 • January 30, 2014
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Table of Contents Introduction!
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Names!
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Description!
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Habitat!
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Range and Population!
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Threats!
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Solutions!
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Help orangutans
Conclusion!
Bibliography!
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Introduction Imagine you are walking in the Borneo jungle. You are slicing your way through plants with your machete. You sit down on a rock with a ripe piece of fruit. Then you hear leaves moving in the tall trees above. You think you see a person but it is too hairy and has a brownish orange fur. It climbs down from the big, long branches of the tree and looks at you. She’s not alone because she’s carrying her baby. The baby looks at you with its big brown eyes. You just remembered that you have the piece of fruit in your hand and you give it to the baby. Looking in astonishment, you have just witnessed an orangutan.
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Names There are two types of orangutans, Borean and Sumatran. The names are derived from the jungles they live in. The LaBn, or scienBfic name, is Pongo pygmaeus, which means ‘man of the forest’. Orangutans are one of the apes in the Great Apes group. In the group is chimpanzees, gorillas, and bonobos.
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Description An orangutan has a brownish orange coat. Males have check pads that can grow to about 1-‐3 feet. Most animals use some kind of camouflage to avoid being seen. Their fur might seem to be able to be seen easily against the dark green jungle. But light changes that. When light hits an object, some it is absorbed and some is reflected. A red object reflects red light, so it appears red. Leaves reflect green light and absorb the rest. Deep in the jungle, the trees block out direct sun light, so most of the light is reflected from the green leaves. This means there is very liPle red light to reflect off the orangutans, so they are almost impossible to see.
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Habitat
An Orangutan habitat needs very tall trees, warm climate, and food. It also needs warm climate all year round. What Orangutans call home is the tall trees. They only come to the ground to get food, like ants and plants. They eat a variety of plants, ants, and fruit but food is oRen scarce.
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Range and Population Orangutans are endangered because the orangutans only live in the Sumatra and Borneo jungles. The combined populaBon of both Orangutans is 19,000-‐25,000.
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Threats Orangutan fur can be used as jackets. People are cuXng down trees that orangutans live in to make palm trees. Then they take the palm trees to make palm oil. Orangutans can be kept as pets but usually only live up to 15-‐20 years. Their homes are being cut down and they are the slowest mammal to reproduce.
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Solutions HELP ORANGUTANS We can help them by not using palm oil. Soap and some food has palm oil in it. If you are going to make something that needs wood, make sure that the wood did not come from the Borneo or Sumatra jungle. If you turn off electronics you are stopping a bit of global warming. People have TVs, video games, and PC’s on all the Bme. When no electronics were around global warming was not a problem. Now electronics are on all the Bme and global warming is a problem.
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Conclusion You might be thinking, “Why should we help orangutans?” We should help because the world is losing another species. They might come exBnct if we don’t help. We can change the world. It can be hard but we can help Orangutans.
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Bibliography Mattern, Joanne. Orangutans. Mankato: Capstone Press, 2010. Print. Pebble Plus. Orangutan Conservancy. Orangutan Conservancy, n.d. Web. 22 Jan. 2014. <http://www.orangutan.com/orangutans/orangutanfacts/>. Orme, David. Orangutan. Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2005. Print. Animals Under Threat.
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