Bornean orangutan: Wild-Life Detective

Question 1 · multiple choice

A young wildlife researcher wants to observe a Bornean orangutan in the wild. Which location is the best match?

sandy and rocky coastal seabeds, seagrass, and reefs deciduous forests of North America tropical rain forest including peat swamp forest tropical evergreen and moist deciduous forest

Question 2 · multiple choice

A keeper is designing a natural feeding puzzle for a Bornean orangutan. Which menu best matches its wild diet?

mostly fish captured sideways in narrow jaws fish, squid, crustaceans, and rays small insects and other arthropods mainly fruit, with leaves, bark, insects, and other foods

Question 3 · multiple choice

A field team plans its watch around the normal routine of a Bornean orangutan. Which timing is most sensible?

travels and feeds by day and builds a new sleeping nest opens in daylight to expose its mantle to sunlight travels and feeds across day and night during vast migrations most active on exposed mud during suitable tides

Question 4 · multiple choice

[Image needed: a clear, unlabeled side-view photograph of a Bornean orangutan moving naturally in its wild habitat, with its whole body visible and no captions.] Which movement description is accurate for a Bornean orangutan?

remains attached while slowly adjusting shell opening moves through trees by deliberate climbing and flexible arm reaching swims continuously with long front flippers uses muscular pectoral fins to skip and crawl over mud

Question 5 · multiple choice

Which feature-and-function explanation best describes a useful adaptation of a Bornean orangutan?

large pincers seize prey while sensory hairs detect air and ground vibrations large eyes spot distant danger while bare legs release heat very long arms and grasping hands support life high in the canopy a specialised mucus coating prevents the host anemone from stinging it

Question 6 · multiple choice

Which description correctly explains how a Bornean orangutan begins or cares for the next generation?

males construct hanging nests that females inspect before choosing eggs are laid on leaves above water and tadpoles drop into the stream releases eggs and sperm into water where larvae develop a mother raises one young through an exceptionally long childhood

Question 7 · multiple choice

Which social pattern best describes how a Bornean orangutan interacts with others of its kind?

adult females are mostly solitary but maintain overlapping ranges generally solitary outside breeding colonies contain millions of specialised workers breeds and feeds in large, noisy colonies

Question 8 · multiple choice

What useful role does a Bornean orangutan play in its ecosystem?

regulates river fish communities without usually hunting large land mammals disperses seeds of many large forest fruits regulates mid-level predators and prey in marine food webs preys on small invertebrates and feeds larger animals

Question 9 · multiple choice

A predator approaches a Bornean orangutan. Which response is the most realistic?

camouflages, flashes warning patterns, inks, and jets away camouflage protects caterpillars while adult tails misdirect bats avoids danger in the canopy and may shake branches or vocalise retreats to canopy and uses a powerful bill if cornered

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A bornean orangutan orangutan mothers have one of the longest intervals between births of any mammal.

True False