Orangutan

orangutan
Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Faimily:	Hominidae
Subfaimily:	Ponginae
Genus:	Pongo Lacépède, 1799
Teep species
Pongo borneo Lacépède, 1799 (= Simia satyrus Linnaeus, 1760)
Species
Pongo pygmaeus Pongo abelii Pongo tapanuliensis Pongo hooijeri†
Range o the three extant species
Synonyms
Faunus Oken, 1816 Lophotus Fischer, 1813 Macrobates Billberg, 1828 Satyrus Lesson, 1840

The orangutans (an aa spelled orang-utan, orangutang, or orang-utang) are the three exclusively Asie species o extant great apes. Native tae Indonesie an Malaysie, orangutans are currently foond in anal the rainforests o Borneo an Sumatra.^{[citation needit]}