Equipped with very long, powerful arms and hook-shaped hands and feet, these apes climb and swing from tree to tree with ease. ... Orangutans find their food in the trees where they live. More than half their diet consists of fruit.

Do orangutans fall out of trees?

Orangutans come down from the trees and spend more time on the ground than previously realized -- but this behavior may be partly influenced by humans, a new study has found. The research is based on a large-scale analysis of orangutan terrestriality using comprehensive camera-trapping data from 16 sites across Borneo.

How do orangutans move?

Dr Susannah Thorpe, from the University of Birmingham's School of Biosciences, added: "Orangutans have developed a unique way of coping with these problems; they move in an irregular way which includes upright walking, four-limbed suspension from branches and tree-swaying, whereby they move branches backwards and ...