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Definition of Orangutans
1. orangutan [n] - See also: orangutan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orangutans
Literary usage of Orangutans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spanish/english Read& Understand, Grade 3 by Jo Ellen Moore (2005)
"orangutans are tree-dwelling apes. They live in tropical forests in Asia. ...
orangutans swing from tree to tree in the hot, humid rainforest. ..."
2. Asia by Jo Ellen Moore (1999)
"orangutans are tree-dwelling animals living in tropical forests. orangutans are
well suited for a life spent swinging from tree to tree. ..."
3. Mammalian Models for Research on Aging by Bennett J. Cohen, Institute Of Laboratory Animal Resources, National Research Council Staff (1981)
"Pongo, the genus of orangutans, consists of a single species, Pongo pygmaeus,
... orangutans are almost exclusively arboreal. Wild populations are sparse, ..."
4. Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves by Laura Riley, William Riley (2005)
"KALIMANTAN (BORNEO) Tanjung Puling National Park with bizarre proboscis monkeys,
orangutans, clouded leopards, sun bears, six primate species, ..."
5. Indonesia's Fires and Haze: The Cost of Catastrophe by David Glover, Jessup, Timothy, Timothy Jessup, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (1999)
"Previous research has shown that orangutans adapt their diets to post-fire
vegetation, but many primatologists believe that the/98 fires will mark the ..."
6. Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei by Karl-Heinz Reger (1997)
"Only around 3000 orangutans still live in Sabah, while on Sarawak, ... Although
orangutans today are no longer killed as trophies by western hunters, ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
""The orangutans amused themselves by swinging in the tree tops over our heads."
From the isolated peak of ..."
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