The orangutan is the ape that has the name the "Man of the Forest"
It is from Malay and it means "man of the woods" or "man of the forest". Orang=man utan=forest or wild
The orangutan, from the Malay/Indonesian orang (person) and hutan (forest).
Charles Darwin
Just normal apes are the closest.
No. There was a common ancestor that gave rise to both man and the apes.
Fraser is a Scottish name that means strawberry flowers. It can also mean the forest man or major Scottish clan.
The name orangutan is actually derived from Malaysian and Indonesian meaning "man of the forest" the scientific name for orangutan is Pongo pygmaeus (Bornean variety) or Pongo Abelii (Sumatran variety). They are the only great apes found outside of Africa.
The name orangutan come from Malay and Indonesian. The name mean person of the forest.
An Orangutan is a large long armed ape inhabiting the forest of Java and Sumatra. The word is of Malay origin meaning 'man of the woods'
That we came from monkeys or apes, we came from a common ancestor from apes.
'tane' means man. If your refering to 'Taane-Maahuta', he is God of forest and man :)
From Bahasa Indonesia to English, orang means person/people and hutan means forest - therefore orangutan is 'person of the forest'.