Pink Fire Pointer June 2012

How to Draw an Orangutan

                      The intelligent orangutans belong to the family of apes and are the natives of Southeast Asia. Primarily, they inhabit the rainforests of Malaysia and Indonesia. They are herbivores that mostly feed on sugary fruits. These animals are large, but peaceful in nature. On an average, orangutans grow to about 4 ft. to 5 ft. in height, with the males being taller than the females. Their mouths are visibly protruding like the other apes. There are two species of orangutans - Bornean Orangutan and Sumatran Orangutan. The latter one is more social and interacts easily with human beings. However, both the varieties are known for their intelligent use of tools, nesting, etc. Follow the instructions below to draw an orangutan:

• Model: Apart from being solitary, the Bornean Orangutans possess heavier bodies than their Sumatran counterparts. Their cheek pads and throat pouches are also much bigger. Therefore, you have to choose beforehand regarding the species you want to cover. Search in science magazines, journals, newspapers, books, etc for an appropriate picture to be used as a model for work. The internet also has a large collection of orangutan images.

• Basic structure: The framework design will depend much on the posture you want to capture in the animal. The size and other characteristic differences will also affect the skeletal sketch. Take a circle for the head portion. Draw another smaller circle for the mouth area, keeping the two circles slightly overlapping. Depict the central body with a large oval. Draw angular lines for the limbs. Use small circles for the joints. In the next stage, the size of these circles will determine the thickness of the limbs. Similarly, small ovals will be used for the hands and feet areas.

• Details: Refinement of the frame will also depend upon the species chosen. Starting with the head, the mouth region and the cheek pads of a Bornean Orangutan are so striking that the eyes appear to be low-set or hollow. The Sumatrans have sleek faces with more visible eyes. The central body does not pose much challenge in drawing. Next, add thickness to the limbs. The hands of an orangutan closely resemble those of humans, but the feet differ in their clasping ability.

• Finishing: The final stage of creating an orangutan involves making its fur coat. The fur has a slightly coarse texture and is usually rusty red in color. However, the two varieties of orangutans vary greatly in terms of the thickness of fur. The Sumatran subspecies contains more sparse fur, while the Bornean variety has such thick coat that often appears like a robe. Mostly straight pencil or brush strokes can do the job.






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Sepilok Orangutan Centre

The One and Only Sepilok Orangutan Centre

The Sepilok Orangutan Centre is indeed a distinctive place to visit in Borneo. It is within 4,300-hectare land area of the Kabili-Sepilok Forest Reserve. It takes about a 20 minute drive from Sandakan. It is advisable to get a tour guide as your interpreter during your visit to the centre where you can have a clear view of the famous Orangutans of Borneo.

The best time to head out to the Sepilok Orangutan Centre is before 10am to enable you get a chance to view the baby orangutans being fed. To avoid distractions to the orangutans, tourists are prohibited from being within close proximity to the feeding area. Nevertheless, one can view the feeding time from a viewing deck which has been strategically placed to allow a panoramic view of the area. After the feeding time, visitors are allowed to explore the reserve as long as they keep within the structured walking planks.

The orangutans are used to the presence of humans but some may feel threatened if you are at close proximity to them and don't be surprised that they may act violently if you try to touch them. After the tour around the centre, there will be an educational video presentation at the indoors regarding the centre and the orangutans.

Prior to your visit to the Sepilok Orangutan Centre, you are recommended to do a research on the policies and guidelines set by the centre for the visitors. This is to ensure your safety and at the same time not to disrupt the peace of mind of the orangutans. It is advisable not to wear anything too colorful as this catches the attention of the orangutans. Do wear high cut boots and long shorts as you will be trekking along the jungle. This is to ensure that you would not be getting any insect bites and minimizes scrapes and cuts as you will have to move among plants. Please bring along extra shirt, raincoat. Sunhat, insect repellant and drinking water.

Before you are allowed to enter the sanctuary of the orangutans, you are to deposit your belongings at the reception area. Make sure you do not bring valuables with you during your visit. Nevertheless, you need to bring cash when you visit to the Sepilok Orangutan Centre for the entrance payment as well as the fees charged for photo taking and video footages of the orangutans.






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The Plight of the Orangutan

                      The close rainforests of Borneo Indonesia are dematerialization at an alarming rate. In the backward 80's and aboriginal 90's best of the assets farmed from the Borneo forests went to the United States and Japan. Now, as added and added countries become industrialized, such as China, the appeal for assets has exploded. Places like the rainforests of Borneo are adversity the consequences.

Experts accept that at the accepted rate, alone 32.6 percent of the Borneo's rainforests will abide by the year 2020. As it is now, over bisected of Borneo's rainforest has abolished back 1980. Thirty years ago, the rainforests were acclimated for their timber, although still actuality acclimated for timber, approach oil has become the best approved afterwards agronomical commodity farmed from the forest's of southeast Asia. Malaysia and Indonesia, area the Borneo rainforests are located, are the better exporters of approach oil.

Because of the deforesting occurring in Borneo, there are about 21 alarmingly threatened beastly breed and able-bodied over 150 beastly breed that are classified as threatened. Orangutans are alone begin in the Borneo rainforests. Once their rainforest disappears, so do they. Although this commodity is about the Orangutan, the accuracy is there are abundant added animals that will abandon with the rainforests too, such as the Sumatran Tiger, Sumatran Rhino, Asian Elephants and several others.

People do not apprehend how important our planet's rainforests are. Tropical rainforests are home to added than 70 percent of our planets beastly and bulb species. Rainforest's advice abstinent and ascendancy our planets climate. The rainforests comedy a huge role in exchanging atmospheric carbon for oxygen. Destroying the rainforests are not aloof bad for the plants and animals active there, it is bad for the absolute planet.

Orangutan is the Malaysia chat for "man of the jungle." Orangutans can alive up to 50 years in the wild, abundant best in captivity. Under optimal altitude a changeable will alone buck at most, 4 baby in her lifetime. Orangutans about absorb their lives active in the copse of the rainforest. They are accomplished at affective from timberline to timberline and can biking abundant distances after anytime affecting the ground.

The Orangutan will about absorb their day looking for and bistro food. They about eat fruits begin from the assorted bulb activity in the rainforests. At night, the Orangutan will bed bottomward in trees, amalgam nests from burst branches and leaves. Orangutans alive in ranges of assorted size. Males are about solitary, until they acquaintance with a female. About one aboveboard mile of advantageous rainforest is bare to abutment two Orangutans. For a applicable advantageous subpopulation of Orangutans (approximately 500 Orangutans), an boilerplate of 300 aboveboard afar of rainforest is needed.

Because of the deforestation, assailment of humans, calm animals (ie dogs), and approach oil plantations, able-bodied over bisected of the Orangutan citizenry has been destroyed. Experts accept that it is absolutely accessible that the Orangutan will be abolished in as little as ten years.

Fortunately there are several organizations that are aggravating to do article for the Orangutans. The Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Accomplishment and Rehabilitation Centermost is one of those organizations. They are amid in Borneo and are accomplishing what they can to save as abounding lives of Orangutans as possible. Beastly Planet ran a appropriate a few nights ago, assuming the centermost and delving into the abounding problems faced by the Orangutans and their accomplishment workers. Best of the bodies alive at the centermost are volunteers and are accomplishing what they can for these poor atrocious animals. Abounding of the Orangutans brought to the centermost are acutely ailing and/or injured. Absolutely frankly, it makes me actual affronted to see what adolescent bodies are accomplishing to these poor caught animals.

The Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Accomplishment and Rehabilitation Centermost is in atrocious charge of funding. The money is bare for food, anesthetic and abounding added important food for the Orangutans. If we do not footfall up and advice the Orangutan, who will? I am not a affiliate or affiliated with the centermost in any way whatsoever, I am artlessly a guy that owns a website accompanying to animals and begin a account that I accept is account our time.






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