Orangutan, Protected by Law

Orangutans are the most intelligent primates and use a variety of sophisticated tools, also making sleeping nests each night from branches and foliage. They are more solitary than other apes; males and females generally come together only to mate. Orangutans may live for up to 50 years in the wild. Unlike gorillas and chimpanzees, orangutans are not true knuckle-walkers, and are instead fist-walkers. Like the other great apes, orangutans are among the most intelligent primates Orangutans do not swim. Fruit makes up 65–90 percent of the orangutan' food,

The most recent estimate for the Sumatran Orangutan is around 7,300 individuals in the wild. Orangutan habitat destruction due to logging, mining and forest fires, as well as fragmentation by roads, has been increasing rapidly in the last decade.