Orangutans have a varied diet: 60% fruit, 25% young leaves, 10% flowers and bark and 5% insects (e.g. ants, termites, crickets).
Young orangutans learn to eat by observing their mother and being allowed to take food from their mother’s mouth or hands.
These incredible animals are well adapted to living in the rainforests and are the largest arboreal mammal, meaning that they spend most of their time in trees.
The Sumatran orangutan is “critically endangered” with about 7,500 animals left and the Borneo orangutan is classified as “endangered” with about 104,000 individuals left.