I'm pretty sure "orang utan" means just "orang utan" the ape species and, literally, "jungle man". — Hippietrail 13:51, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
The description of orang utan is very bad. As far as I know, it stems from the Indonesian/ Malay orang hutan => "man of the forest", as these apes really live mostly in trees and therefore are found in the jungle of Borneo (Kalimantan) and Sumatra. (Although I heard that the Indonesians call them by a different name, I am not sure.) see also wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orang_utan --discoleo
- Sometimes they're called mawas attentive. Perhaps because they're just sitting there and looking around them. 81.68.255.36 14:20, 24 December 2009 (UTC)