mangrove

Mangrove forests are forests that grow in estuaries, tidal areas or waterfront. Mangrove is unique because it is a combination of traits of plants that live on land and at sea. Mangrove root system generally has a prominent so-called breathing roots (pneumatofor). This root system is a way of adaptation to poor soil conditions of oxygen or even anaerobic.

 

 mangrove

Some mangrove species are known:
- Mangrove (Rhizophora spp.)
- Api-api (Avicennia spp.)
- Pedada (Sonneratia spp.)
- Tanjang (Bruguiera spp.)

species of orangutan sumatra

Sumatran Orangutan (Pongo abelii) is the rarest species of orangutan. Sumatran orangutans live and endemic to Sumatra, an island located in Indonesia. They are smaller than the orangutans of Borneo. Sumatran orangutan has a height of about 4.6 feet and weighs 200 pounds. Females are smaller, with a height of 3 feet and weighs 100 pounds.

Orangutan Sumatra di Bukit Lawang

 

 Compared Borneo Orangutan, Sumatran orangutan prefers feed mainly fruits and insects as well. [2] The fruit is preferred, including banyan fruit and jackfruit. They also eat bird eggs and small vertebrates. [3] Sumatran Orangutan shorter in the feed on a tree trunk.

Wild Sumatran orangutans in the swamp Suaq Balimbing observed using tools. [4] An orangutan break the long branches of a tree about one foot, put away the branches and sharpen edges. Then he used the rod to poke holes for the trees for termites. They also use a stick to beat the walls of the honeycomb. In addition, orangutans also use tools to eat fruit. When ripe fruit Neesia tree, the fruit is hard, ridged skin softened until it fell open. Inside is a seed like orangutans, but they covered the hair-like glass fibers are sick if ingested. Orangutan Neesia eaters will select five inch rod, skinned it and then remove the feathers with it. When the fruit is clean, the monkey will eat the seeds using a rod, or fingers. Although a similar swamp in Kalimantan, Borneo wild orangutans have not seen using a tool like this.

NHNZ film Sumatran orangutans for his show Wild Asia: In the Realm of the Red Ape; the show demonstrates one of the orangutans using simple equipment, twigs, to reach food from a tough spot. There is also a series of images of an animal using a large leaf as an umbrella during a rain storm tropical

Sumatran orangutans are also preferred to dwell in the tree than the cousin of Borneo; this may be due to predators such as the Sumatran tiger. They move from tree to tree using a swinging arm.
 

Endemic Sumatran orangutan from Sumatra island and his life is limited in the north of the island. In the wild, Sumatran orangutans survive in the province of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD), the northernmost tip of Sumatra. [5] These primates are spread more widely used, when they found more to the South in the 1800s as in Jambi and Padang. [6] There small population in North Sumatra province along the border with NAD, especially in the forests of lake Toba. Surveys in lake Toba only found two areas of habitat, Bukit Lawang (defined as wildlife reserves) and the Gunung Leuser National Park. [7] In 2002, the World Conservation Union placed the species in the IUCN Red List status of critical.

Recent survey in 2004 estimated there are about 7300 Sumatran orangutans surviving in the wild. [5] Some of these are protected in the five regions in the Gunung Leuser National Park and others living in areas not protected: block west of Aceh and northeast, the river Batang Toru West, East and Sidiangkat Sarulla. Breeding programs have been created in the Park Hill Thirty in Jambi and Riau provinces, and generate a new population of Sumatran orangutans.

In captivity, there are many more zoos and animal parks outside who are interested in the natural habitat of orangutans in general. The oldest Sumatran orangutan Ah Meng was born in 1960. [8] Nonja, which is considered the oldest in the cage or in the time of his death, died in Miami MetroZoo at age 55. [9].