Bornean orangutan mother and infant in rainforest canopy

Mammalia · Primates

Bornean Orangutan

Pongo pygmaeus

The world's largest exclusively arboreal animal, spending over 90% of its waking life high in tropical dipterocarp canopy trees.

Realm
Terrestrial
Conservation status
CRCritically Endangered
Data provenance

This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.

Method and version
Evidence snapshot

A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 298 licence-filtered records across 30 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.

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Retained datasets (20)