Orangutans are humans closest relative. we share 94.6% of our heritage with them.
Orangutans amazing creatures. They are the human's closest relative. Orangutan means "man of the forest" in the Malay language. Their habitat is being destroyed by man and their population is decreasing and they could very well go extinct. There are two kinds of orangutans, there is the Borneo orangutan and the Sumatra orangutan. Orangutans have long red hair and large hands. The males can grow up to 1.5 m tall but the females can only grow to about 1 m. Male orangutans can grow padded cheeks and throat poaches (you can see that in the slideshow below on pictures 2 and 3).