Orangutan, Borneo (USNM 153824)

USNM 153824


This specimen, USNM 153824 (http://collections.mnh.si.edu/search/mammals/?irn=7255018), is a female orangutan from the island of Borneo, Indonesia (Pongo pygmaeus).  It was collected by W.L. Abbott in 1908 near the Kendawangan River in Lanchut. The female weighed 84 lbs with a head to body length of 770 mm. The hind tarsus length measured at 280 mm.

