Interesting fact about orangutan!

Fact #1 - Male orangutans become fully mature at about 15 years of age.

Fact #2 - Orangutan predators include tigers, leopards, and even large pythons.

Fact #3 - Male orangutans have territories that they defend against other male orangutans.

Fact #4 - Orangutans live to be about 35 years old in the wild; in captivity they can live 50 years or more.

Fact #5 - The word orangutan comes from the Malay language and means 'person of the forest' - from the words ‘orang' meaning people and ‘hutan' meaning forest.

Fact #6 - Orangutans only have one baby at a time. There is a lot to learn about life in the forest and so babies stay with their mother and learn from her until they are 7 or 8 years old - this is longer than any other mammal except humans.

Fact #7 - Orangutans make umbrellas for themselves out of big leaves when it rains, and use sticks to get honey from beehives.

Fact #8 - In the earlier times, people thought an orangutan to be a person hiding in the trees, trying to avoid having to go to work or become a slave.

Fact #9 - Every evening, orangutans construct a ‘nest’, of leaves and branches, on trees, in which they will curl up and sleep at night.

Fact #10 - Orangutan do not swim!