The man of the forest

The age of the monkeys has come.

Do you know where I come from?
Where do I go to sleep?

Where do orangutan live exactly?

Orangutan also known as 'man of the forest' is found in just two places on the globe, the Indonesian island of Sumatra in Southeast Asia, and on the island of Borneo.


Orangutan lives on trees and makes their nests out of tree branches where they sleep at night. They usually make their nests around 2 to 3 times a day and at times take some rests on the afternoon. Although this is becoming a habit to them, orangutans dislike to get direct sunlight from the sun. Instead, these wonderful creatures prefer the heat.

Orangutans depend on trees for survival. They eat, sleep, mate and swing from branch to branch all day long and hardly set foot on the ground. Their main food is fruit, young leaves including flowers and bark, insects, mainly ants, termites and crickets and the occasional egg. Through their eating habits, we can conclude that orangutan are vegetarians and do not eat meat or fish. These vegetarian orangutans, mostly adults can weigh up to 45 until 90 kilograms. As the sky grows darker, these orangutans will notice the coming rain and quickly search for a tree with lots of leaves and uses the leaves to hide themselves under them to prevent themselves from getting wet in the rain.

In the orangutan world, fights don't usually occur among them. When this animal is threaten, it would not defend itself but prefers to swing to another destination. On the other hand, fights can be caused when a male orangutan challenges another male orangutan. This scene rarely takes place because orangutans are harmless animals and rather share their room with others.

Most baby orangutans live with their mother and learn about survival skills. Firstly, a baby orangutan will learn to climb trees from its mother. At the same time, the mother orangutan will help its young to swing from one branch to another which is called brachiating. This lesson is very important for the young since orangutan spend most of their time on the trees. Before the mother orangutan let its young out to the wild, she also must teach the kind of food that can be eaten and also the dangers in the forest. Eventhough this lesson could take about 3 years, it is good to know that the mother is very patient and doesn't need any help from others.

According to researchers, adult orangutan normally live alone and sometimes go around in pairs. However, the orangutans chooses to avoid from being with one another and prefers to be alone.

Together we can save our kind and save the ecosystem. Unite our effort we must.

Reflection

1. What have I learned?

Before this blog was made, I knew nothing in the fact that many orangutans out there in the world had to suffer in order to live and even die trying to save their young ones. After I had accomplish this assignment, not only have I learned how to produce a blog but I also learned that orangutans are one of the most gentle and caring animals in the animal kingdom. In fact, they have proven themselves to be highly intelligent. Completing this blog just made me realise how wonderful these animals are.

2. Questions for the thinkers.

As we all know, the orangutan population are decreasing by the minute and before we know it, the orangutans may fade from the face of the earth. As a precaution, what action should we take in order to save these innocent creatures from extinction?

Resources


http://www.endimicguides.com/orangutan.htm

http://www.orangutans-sos.org/docs/KidzJV_1_USedit.pdf

If you have any comments, suggestions or would like to answer the question above, do drop by the comment box and fill in anything you would like to say. You can also talk more about orangutans or even tell stories about any other animals that you would like to share. Your words are very meaningful to me and also for all the animals around the globe. I hope all you readers out there enjoy my blog as much as I do.