| A
baby orangutan stays in its mom's belly for almost eight months.
It sometimes nurses for three years. Mothers can't get pregnant while
nursing her baby. A mother orangutan might have five babies at one
time, but a few might die in the wild.
The
mothers stay with their young for seven years. The mother has to teach
her baby how to find food, what food to eat, in which
trees and what season to get the food. The baby has to be strong
because he has to hold on to his mother when she swings vine to vine.
Adult
orangutans live for 50 years in captivity. |
