A video is going viral on social media where orphan orangutans are being trained to fear a snake in the wild and their reaction to seeing a rubber serpent is winning hearts.
Orangutan is a Malay word, and means ‘man of the forest’. There are three species of these great apes – Bornean (endangered), Sumatran (critically endangered) and Tapanuli (most endangered).
Back in 2011, scientists at Washington University's Genome Center decoded the DNA of a Sumatran orangutan, and found out the human and orangutan genomes are 97 percent identical.