On my last trip to Indonesia, when reading an article called Orangutan In The Jungle, I discovered that the word orangutan comes from the Malay words “Orang,” meaning person, and “hutan,” meaning of the forest. Thus, the word “Orangutan” quite literally translates to “person of the forest.”
It’s especially fitting that we now know orangutans share more than 96 per cent of their genes with humans. It is horrifying to think of the thousands of orangutans killed as the Indonesian government decimates the Sumatran forests for wood.
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