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Bornean Orangutan
Pongo pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1760)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Primates - primates »  family Hominidae - hominids »  genus Pongo - orangutan

Images

Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus - North-west Bornean Orangutan

Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus - North-west Bornean Orangutan

Author: Adam Slavický

Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus - North-west Bornean Orangutan

Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus - North-west Bornean Orangutan

Author: Adam Slavický

Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus - North-west Bornean Orangutan

Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus - North-west Bornean Orangutan

Author: Topi Pigula

Pongo pygmaeus - Bornean Orangutan

Author: Ivan Mikšík

Pongo pygmaeus - Bornean Orangutan

Author: Ivan Mikšík

Pongo pygmaeus - Bornean Orangutan

Author: Ivan Mikšík

juvenile animal

Pongo pygmaeus - North-west Bornean Orangutan

Author: Eva Zemanová

skull

Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus - North-west Bornean Orangutan

Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus - North-west Bornean Orangutan, male

Author: Milan Kořínek

Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus - North-west Bornean Orangutan

Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus - North-west Bornean Orangutan, female

Author: Milan Kořínek

Intertaxon relationships

food: Garcinia mangostana L. - Mangosteen, Nephelium lappaceum L. - Rambutan, Strychnos ignatii P. J. Bergius, Durio zibethinus L. - Durian

Included taxa

Number of records: 3

subspecies Pongo pygmaeus morio (Owen, 1837) - North-east Bornean Orangutan

Pongo pygmaeus morio

subspecies Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1760) - North-west Bornean Orangutan

Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus

subspecies Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii (Tiedemann, 1808) - South-west Bornean Orangutan

Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii


Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [17975]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Pongo pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1760)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1000722]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Pongo pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1760)]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Pongo pygmaeus Linnaeus, 1760]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
DE Zootier-Lexikon [95:orangutan&Itemid=438]

Dollinger P.: Zootier-Lexikon
Data retrieved on: 21 November 2018
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Pongo pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1760)]

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