Orang-utan: Pongo pygmaeus.
Distribution: restricted to the islands of Borneo and Sumatra
'Orang' and 'utan' are the Malay words meaning 'person' and 'forest'; the orang-utan is literally a 'person of the forest'. Apart from humans, the orang-utan is the only one of the five great apes - the orang-utan, the gorilla, the common chimpanzee, the bonobo (pygmy chimpanzee) and man - to live outside Africa. It is less closely related to humans than the other three great apes, but is still strangely human-looking. The two sub-species living in Borneo and Sumatra differ a little in appearance. Sumatran orang-utans are generally slimmer and lighter-coloured than their Bornean counterparts. The Bornean male has larger cheek pads than the Sumatran, which gives it a more grotesque appearance.http://www.yptenc.org.uk/
Look at what they're teaching our animals these days
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It is simply magnificent phrase
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