THE ORANG-UTAN Another very famous ape is the orang-utan, which is found in Borneo and Sumatra.
But when an orang-utan does the same its fingers nearly touch the ground.
He lives in rough, rocky places on the sides of mountains, where there are no trees at all, so that arms like those of the gibbons or the orang-utan would be of no use to him.
Lastly, Dubois has discovered in Java the cranium of Pithecanthropus erectus which is intermediate between that of the orang-utan and man.
Nakab-utan ang ákung buhuk sa ungguy, The monkey managed to get hold of my hair.
Muhílak ku ug agut-utan ku sa ákung upirasyun, I cry if the wound from my operation gnaws painfully.
Gin-utan aku áning sinínang naylun, I feel hot in this nylon shirt.
It nearly always happens that every skin of a large gorilla, chimpanzee, or orang utan is totally destitute of bones.
The orang utan has a chocolate-colored skin, except the old males, in which it is black; the mona monkey has a bluish skin, and the faces of nearly all primates require painting.
The opening cuts for the hand and foot of any ape or monkey are to be made as shown by the dotted lines in the accompanying sketch of the foot of an orang-utan (Fig.
ORANG-UTAN A large and heavy ape, frequenting forests in Sumatra and Borneo, living mainly in trees, where a temporary nest is made.
When wounded an orang-utan cries like a child in quite an uncanny manner, as a Dutch friend informed me.
Eight Malays who had made camp on a small promontory on the river, one morning were sitting about sunning themselves when they were surprised to see an orang-utan approaching.
A few Chinamen and Bugis who live here advance rice and dried fish to the Malays to provision expeditions into the utan which last two to three months, receiving in return rubber and damar.
Some men were then sent to bring up the goods stored in the utan below, and on February 3 this was accomplished.
Men who work in theutan gathering rubber, rattan, etc.
When the fruits of the utan are ripe, the orang-utan may at times be heard crying out in the neighbourhood, but on account of the dry weather they had retired deeper into the jungle.
Deer then made a clearing in the utan and built a hut for them.
They cross the lake in their small prahus, pole them up the streams, and remain perhaps three months in the utan working under adverse conditions.
The evening of our departure was delightful, and a full moon shed its light over the utan and the river.
The orang-utan spends most of his time in the trees, seldom descending to the ground.
As we broke camp two argus pheasants flew over the utan through the mist which the sun was trying to disperse.
The Orang-Utan would rarely seem to exceed four feet in height, but the body is very bulky, measuring two-thirds of the height in circumference.
At what time of life the Orang-Utan becomes capable of propagation, and how long the females go with young, is unknown, but it is probable that they are not adult until they arrive at ten or fifteen years of age.
Foot of Man, Gorilla, and Orang-Utan of the same absolute length, to show the differences in proportion of each.
It is certainly the Pongo of Wurmb;* and it is as certainly not the Pongo of Battell, seeing that the Orang-Utan is entirely confined to the great Asiatic islands of Borneo and Sumatra.
The Gugu are much scarcer than these, differing in little but the use of speech from the Orang Utan of Borneo; their bodies being covered with long hair.
It was along this tramway that Mr. Wallace shot the orang-utan mentioned in an earlier part of this chapter.
Nearer to us again are Santubong and Moratabas, and far down the coast the Sadong mountains, the home of the Mias or orang utan of Borneo.
Stories are told by natives of the orang-utan seizing and carrying away young Dyak girls to their dens in the forests.
In Eric the Red's Saga this has been altered to "hann kom utanat jokli þeím er Bláserkr heitir.
At what time of life the Orang-Utan becomes capable of propagation, and how long the females go with young is unknown, but it is probable that they are not adult until they arrive at ten or fifteen years of age.
The Orang-Utan would rarely seem to exceed four feet in height, but the body is very bulky, measuring two thirds of the height in circumference.
Balzac has compared the average husband to an orang-utan trying to play the violin.
Balzac's comparison of the unskilful husband to the orang-utan attempting to play the violin has already been quoted.
As the last utan was filing past us the waters had risen until they surged about our necks, but we clasped hands and stood our ground until the last man had passed to the comparative safety of the new passageway.
Djor Kantos, son of Kantos Kan, and a padwar of the fifth utan joined us when his utanreached the opening through which the men were fleeing.
As a last resort, in order to make perfectly sure that the orang utan was doing his best, I decided to introduce corporal punishment in a mild form.
In connection with it, the orang utan exhibited surprisingly diverse and numerous efforts to meet the demands of the situation.
But contrasted with that of man the ideational life of the orang utan seems poverty stricken.
This tendency was apparently due to the fact that during one or two series the experimenter growled at the orang utan every time he made a mistake.
That the orang utanis capable of using free ideas seems clear enough in the light of this behavior.
No unprejudiced psychologist would be likely to interpret the activities of the orangutan in the box-stacking experiment as other than imaginal or ideational.
All the while through variation of methods, I was seeking to discover the best means of holding the orang utan to his maximum effort and care in attempting to select the right box.
Lock and Key Test By my assistant it was reported on May 5 that the orang utan had been seen to place a splinter of wood in a padlock which was used on the cages and to work with it persistently.
In the second series, the orang utan developed the interesting trick of quickly dodging out of the wrong box before the experimenter could lower the door behind him.
I noted, first of all, that the orang utan Julius tended to use his left hand.
The orang utan was a young specimen of Pongo pygmaeus Hoppius obtained from a San Francisco dealer in October, 1914 for my use.
Wallace (1869) describes certain features of the behavior of an infant orang utan whose mother he shot in Borneo.
The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise.
Kayans IPA OLIM, and of which a representation forms the chief element in the Long Utan tatu.
It is certainly the Pongo of Wurmb; [13] and it is as certainly not the Pongo of Battell, seeing that the Orang-Utan is entirely confined to the great Asiatic islands of Borneo and Sumatra.
Well did Gahan remember the mysterious disappearance of the Princess Haja and an entire utan of her personal troops.
Utan after utan entered through the great gate, and even when the head of the column reached the palace of O-Tar they were not all within the city.
The Black Chief is U-Kal of Manataj, a volunteer player; the Orange Chief is the dwar U-Dor of the 8th Utan of the jeddak of Manator, also a volunteer player.
U-Dor, dwar of the 8th Utan of O-Tar, Jeddak of Manator, rode back in the early dawn toward Manator from a brief excursion to a neighboring village.
Footnote 13: The enormous development of the laryngeal sacs in the orang-utan is perhaps also in harmony with this protective function, as I have shown in a special work.
Verkimier was in front with the orang-utan reaching up to his arm and hobbling affectionately by his side--for there was a strong mutual affection between them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "utan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
