大猩猩英文介绍

Orangutans are among the most intelligent primates and use a variety of sophisticated tools,also making sleeping nests each night from branches and foliage.They are generally not aggressive and live a mostly solitary life foraging for food.They are the largest living arboreal animals with longer arms than other great apes.Their hair is typically reddish-brown,instead of the brown or black hair typical of other great apes.Native to Indonesia and Malaysia,orangutans are currently found only in rainforests on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra,though fossils have been found in Java,the Thai-Malay Peninsula,Vietnam and China.There are only two surviving species,both of which are endangered:the Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) and the critically endangered Sumatran Orangutan (Pongo abelii).The subfamily Ponginae also includes the extinct genera Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus.The word "orangutan" comes from the Malay words "orang" (man) and "(h)utan" (forest); hence,"man of the forest".猩猩是灵长类动物中最聪明的和使用各种先进的工具，也使每个晚上睡巢由树枝和树叶。他们一般都没有积极的生活是孤独的生活觅食。它们是最大的活树栖动物更长的武器比其他类人猿。他们的头发通常是红褐色的，而不是的褐色或黑色的头发其他类人猿的典型。原产于印度尼西亚和马来西亚，猩猩是目前只发现了雨林婆罗洲岛和苏门答腊岛上，虽然化石被发现在java，泰国马来半岛、越南和中国。只有两个幸存的物种，都是濒危的物种：婆罗洲猩猩（Pongo pygmaeus）和濒临灭绝的苏门答腊猩猩（毛猩猩）。亚科猩猩亚科还包括已灭绝的属和西瓦古猿巨猿。“猩猩”来自马来语词“人”（人）和（H）猩猩”（森林）；因此，“森林人”。