Orangutan's Diet

By Paul and Summer

Orangutans are omnivores, this means they eat a lot of different kinds of food.  They eat both meat and plants like fruit, leaves and  small animals.  Over half of a wild orangutan's diet is fruit. The juicy, smelly, durian fruit (looks like a cantaloupe with thorns and smells like rotten eggs, but its taste is sweet as honey) is one of their favorites.  They also eat, flowers, bark, and insects such as, termites, and a butterfly' s larva.

 

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