Genus of ape found in rainforests on the Southeast Asian islands of Sumatra and Borneo

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To the admirers of the wonderful productions of nature : just arrived here, to be seen in a commodious room, from eleven in the morning, till 9 at night, at Mr. Robson's, Market Place, Durham : the famous Miss Baggs from Newfoundland, now twenty years of age, born without arms, and will work with her toes, in as complete a manner as with arms, and hands ...

Java: a man and a woman of mixed race (Dutch and Javanese), with the woman holding a young child in her arms, standing outside a plantation; right an ape of Java (orangoutan?). Etching by F. Garden, 1752.

Sarawak: an adult orang-utan (Simia satyrus). Photograph.

Sarawak: a baby orang-utan (Simia satyrus). Photograph.

Skull of an orang-utang: four figures. Chromolithograph, 1877.

Wild man from Borneo : a cultural history of the orangutan / Robert Cribb, Helen Gilbert, Helen Tiffin.

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Wild man from Borneo : a cultural history of the orangutan / Robert Cribb, Helen Gilbert, Helen Tiffin.

Sarawak: an adult orang-utan (Simia satyrus). Photograph.

Skull of an orang-utang: four figures. Chromolithograph, 1877.

Java: a man and a woman of mixed race (Dutch and Javanese), with the woman holding a young child in her arms, standing outside a plantation; right an ape of Java (orangoutan?). Etching by F. Garden, 1752.

Sarawak: a baby orang-utan (Simia satyrus). Photograph.