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What do Orangutans eat?

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About 90% of an orangutan's diet is made up of fruit but they also eat nectar, honey, nuts, bark, seeds, lots of young leaves, insects, and fungi, with some occasional meat such as rats, birds and eggs.

The orangutan's favorite fruit is the durian, which has a very pungent flavor and is covered in sharp spikes. Orangutans use their jaws or hard objects to break things like the durians.

Orangutans receive different types of oils and sugars from fruit, protein from nuts and carbohydrates from leaves.
Fruit, Termite, Bark. vegetables and leaves. They can eat things such as fruit smoothies and fruit ice lollies ( 100% frozen fruit). When food is Scarce they eat bark but Fruit and vegetables are a common favourite and are preferred to bark.
They eat lettuce and carrots

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Orangutan eat many different flowreing fruits that grow in the rainforest

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Orangutans eat nearly every fruit you can think of, and also eat small animals.

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orangutans eat fruits eg.papaya,kiwii and vegetables

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orangutans eat meat

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