Orangutans in Indonesia
I got these amazing nature photos of wild orangutans in Indonesia from a brand new friend today. He goes by “Mike Henry” on FaceBook, and has a fascinating blog: About Indonesia. It appears wild orangutans in Indonesia, or anywhere else for that matter are very nearly extinct.
Here’s what Mike has to say:
I just came back from a weekend in Bukit Lawang. Bukit Lawang is about a three hour, bumpy bus ride from Medan and is apparently one of the best places for seeing orangutans in the wild. It was my second trip to Bukit Lawang, but the first time to see orangutans.
There is a feeding area where National Park staff feed the orangutans two times a day – at around 8:30 a.m. in the morning and 2:30 p.m….
There are only around 7,000 orangutans left in Sumatra according to Wiki and they could be extinct by 2012. They are beautiful and amazing creatures and it would be a huge loss to see them become extinct. Apparently 96 per cent of their genes are the same as humans.
Read the rest, and see more nature photos on About Indonesia. Thanks, Mike, for letting me borrow these terrific nature photos!
Hmm… I didn’t know there WERE orangutans in Indonesia. I wonder if their orange color has anything to do with the name? Also, this second picture has me stumped. Is that limb the orangutan is holding on over his head with an arm or a leg? What do you think?
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Thanks for posting these pics from Bukit!
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Thanks for posting!
> I wonder if their orange color has anything to do with the name? Also, this second picture has me stumped. Is that limb the orangutan is holding on over his head with an arm or a leg?
It’s not the color. Orang means person in Indonesian and hutan means forest, so literally it means “forest people”.
Also I think it is her arm. They have these incredibly long arms.
Hi, good post. I have been wondering about this issue,so thanks for posting.
I really like your post. Does it copyright protected?