Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre, Sabah, MALAYSIA
Scanned slide from 2001
Date 1 November 2001, 00:00
Source Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)
Author Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bornean_Orangutan_(Pongo_pygmaeus)_(14582588301).jpg
The Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) is a species of orangutan native to the island of Borneo. Together with the Sumatran orangutan, it belongs to the only genus of great apes native to Asia. Like the other great apes, orangutans are highly intelligent, displaying advanced tool use and distinct cultural patterns in the wild. Orangutans share approximately 97% of their DNA with humans.
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Family: Hominidae
Genus: Pongo
Species: Pongo pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1760)
Synonyms:
Pongo agris (Schreber, 1799)
Pongo batangtuensis (Selenka, 1896)
Pongo borneensis Röhrer-Ertl, 1983
Pongo borneo (Lacépède, 1799)
Pongo brookei (Blyth, 1853)
Pongo curtus (Blyth, 1855)
Pongo dadappensis (Selenka, 1896)
Pongo genepaiensis (Selenka, 1896)
Pongo landakkensis (Selenka, 1896)
Pongo morio (Owen, 1837)
Pongo owenii (Blyth, 1853)
Pongo rantaiensis (Selenka, 1896)
Pongo rufus (Lesson, 1840)
Pongo satyrus (Linnaeus, 1766) [in part]
Pongo skalauensis (Selenka, 1896)
Pongo sumatranus (Mayer, 1856)
Pongo tuakensis (Selenka, 1896)
Pongo wallichii (Gray, 1871)
Pongo wurmbii (Tiedemann, 1808)