Tonda (orangutan)
Encyclopedia
Tonda,[1958 - 23 March 2009] 50, was the oldest orangutan
in the United States.
Tonda died on March 23, 2009, at ZooWorld at the Panama City Beach, Fla.
died in her sleep at the age of 50. Tonda had represented the oldest registered orangutan in captivity in the United States.
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Orangutan
Orangutans are the only exclusively Asian genus of extant great ape. The largest living arboreal animals, they have proportionally longer arms than the other, more terrestrial, great apes. They are among the most intelligent primates and use a variety of sophisticated tools, also making sleeping...
in the United States.
Tonda died on March 23, 2009, at ZooWorld at the Panama City Beach, Fla.
Biography
Tonda, the popular orangutan, whose name is short for Tondaleyo,died in her sleep at the age of 50. Tonda had represented the oldest registered orangutan in captivity in the United States.
Cultural references
Tonda, along with a male kitten named T.K., had earned a modicum of fame after being named the second-best animal odd couple by Animal PlanetAnimal Planet
Animal Planet is an American cable tv specialty channel that launched on October 1, 1996. It is distributed by Discovery Communications. A high-definition simulcast of the channel launched on September 1, 2007.-History:...
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See also
- Ah MengAh MengAh Meng was a female Sumatran Orangutan and a tourism icon of Singapore. She was smuggled from Indonesia and kept illegally as a domestic pet before being recovered by a veterinarian in 1971...
(circa 18 June 1960 — 8 February 2008) — female Sumatran OrangutanSumatran OrangutanThe Sumatran orangutan is one of the two species of orangutans. Found only on the island of Sumatra, in Indonesia, it is rarer and smaller than the Bornean orangutan. The Sumatran orangutan grows to about tall and in males...
and a tourism icon of SingaporeSingaporeSingapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the... - BonnieBonnie (orangutan)Bonnie is a female orangutan living at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C.She began spontaneously whistling, mimicking an animal caretaker making the sound. The importance is that whistling is a sound that is in a human’s—but not an orangutan’s—repertoire...
— orangutan; began whistling (mimicking an animal caretaker), which is changing ideas about primate sound repertoires. - ChantekChantekChantek is a male orangutan raised by anthropologist Lyn Miles at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.-See also:* Abang * Great ape language...
(born 1977) — orangutan; involved with language research and ApeNet language-using great ape ambassador - List of apes
- Orangutans in popular cultureOrangutans in popular cultureOrangutans, two species of great apes indigenous to Indonesia and Malaysia, have been the subject of multiple popular culture references.-Famous orangutans:*Ah Meng , Sumatran Orangutan of Singapore...