In the dry season, they built up fat reserves to anticipate the monsoon season, which lasts from April through October, when food is much less available. Orangutans eat mostly fruit, young leaves, inner bark, and eggs. These sacks are need to make loud groans that can be heard from far distance. Their cheeks are puffy and they have a kind of pouch hanging from their throat, which contains air sacks. Appearance-wise, the males are different. Both male and female orangutans have coarse, long, reddish-brown fur. The females are smaller, only around three-quarter of a meter tall and half the weight of the male. Male orangutans can reach a little below 1 m tall and weigh around 77 kg. Older males are often found travelling and sleeping on the ground. As they find it hard going through treetops, each day they only climb a few hundreds of metre. They travel from tree to tree through the branches using their long limbs. In Southeast Asia, there are big apes called orangutan in the Malay language, or the "jungle man." Native to Indonesia and Malaysia, they are only found on Kalimantan Island and the northern parts of Sumatra Island.
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