orangutan moods

The Bornean Orangutan, also known as ‘person of the forest’ in the Malay language is one of the three known orangutan species native to the island of Borneo. They are the largest tree-living mammal in the world. Additionally, they are known to be highly intelligent, displaying tool use and distinctive culture in the wild.
Bornean orangutans have a distinctive body shape with coarse, long hair that can be orange, brown, or maroon. Also, they have powerful, long arms with grasping hands and feet for climbing and travelling through the forest canopy. Hence, Borneon orangutans spend most of their lives high in the treetops.
Additionally, the Bornean orangutan is generally a solitary animal, although they can come together to mate. Moreover, after birth, the infant stays with its mother until sexual maturity (12-15 yrs), solely depending on her for survival. Therefore, they have an extremely low reproductive rate. This means that their population can take a long time to recover from population decline or crashes.
At present, there are about 104,000 individuals left in the wild, but sharply declining. Once found in great numbers, this gentle, great ape now can only be found in fragmented, small numbers on the island of Borneo. Current threats to the surviving population include illegal logging, intentional forest fires for clearing land, illegal poaching and pet trade.
https://malaysianwildlife.org/bornean...
They are only found in Borneo and Sumatra. In the Malaysian Peninsula they are only in captivity. A few years ago, the photographs of Orangoutangs in a destroyed forest for palm oil plantations purpose alarmed the entire world and created awareness of their tragic conditions especially in Borneo. People from Tokyo to Washington started to boycott products using palm oil and to demonstrate for the primate's cause. Now, all this is forgotten even though nothing much happened to save them.
I went four times to the Semenggoh Wildlife Centre and each time I was fortunate to capture photographs of many of them coming from the forest to feed. The other photographs part of the video slide show are from Taiping Zoo.