Remember a couple months ago when I was obsessed with elephants? …oh wait still am (hence my layout)-dorkwad much? Anyway, saw this today in the IMAX Dome theater…and it was the most adorable thing ever made ever. My face hurt from smiling.
Baby orangutan Boo, a nine-month-old orphan, plays with a blanket during a presentation at the Madrid Zoo & Aquarium on April 14, 2011. Boo, the first orangutan born at the zoo, has been adopted by a female orangutan and is bottle fed by one of the keepers, according to the zoo. (Reuters/Andrea Comas)
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A young orangutan swings from tree to tree in Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesian Borneo.- Photo by Sean Crane
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1699, from Du. orang-outang, from Malay orang utan, lit. “man of the woods,” from orang “man” + utan, hutan “forest, wild.” It is possible that the word originally was used by town-dwellers on Java to describe savage forest tribes of the Sunda Islands and that Europeans misunderstood it to mean the ape. The name is not now applied in Malay to the animal, but there is evidence that it was so in 17c.
