Bornean orangutan
The Bornean and Sumatran orang-utan are both endangered species. Human activities such as development and deforestation are responsible for their rarity. The big game hunter Charles Peel collected this young specimen.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 118/1932/16
- Collection Class
- Mammals
- Collection Area Region
- South-East Asia
- Collector Excavator
- Peel, Mr Charles Victor Alexander
- Common Name
- Bornean orangutan
- Simple Name
- mammal
