Como Zoo Orangutan

Another Como animal, the Orangutan, always seems the happiest to me. The orangutans, probably because they are a family, seem the least stressed and mental. The seem social, curious and even engaged with the people looking at them. Having said all that... it's still depressing seeing them in the zoo.

The orangutan is native to southeast Asia. It gets it's name from a combination of Malaysian and Indonesian names - "Orang" for "person" and "Hutan" for "forest" ... thus orangutan = "person of the forest.