Red Hair Orang Utan

This video clip is taken in Sepilok Rehabilitation Centre. Young Orang Utans (less than 3 years old) are placed in this rehabilitation centre. The young Orang Utans are being taken care of carefully by the workers there. For example, the workers help the Orang Utans of about 3 months old to take bath, or feed them with milk similar with those adult female Orang Utans.

As well as sharing 96.4% of human genes, these gentle creatures can also catch most of the diseases that effect humans including tuberculosis, pneumonia and polio. In this case, the centre provides medical care for orphaned and confiscated orang utans. Just ten years ago the estimated population was around 27,000, today it could be as low as 15,000.

Orang Utan: Person of the Forest

Have you ever seen Orang Utan? According to Wikipedia, The orangutans are two species of great apes with long arms and reddish, sometimes brown, hair native to Indonesia and Malaysia. They are the only extant species in the genus Pongo and the subfamily Ponginae, although that subfamily also includes the extinct Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus genera. The orangutan is an official state animal of Sabah in Malaysia. Their name derives from the Malay and Indonesian phrase orang hutan meaning "person of the forest".

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