Orangutan Brain

In Malay orang means person and utan is derived from hutan, which means forest. Therefore, orangutan literally means person of the forest. They have tremendous strength, which enables them to branchiate and hang upside-down from branches for long periods of time to retrieve fruit and eat young leaves. Like humans, Orang-utans are extremely smart. They perform as well as chimpanzees and gorillas in tests of cognitive ability. In captivity, they are excellent tool-users and versatile tool-makers.