Example sentences for: orangutan

How can you use “orangutan” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Renowned orangutan specialist and Louis B. Leakey disciple Biruté Galdikas is under attack for allegedly neglecting--and even mistreating--the endangered orangutans in her care.

  • To confirm these observations, metaphase chromosome preparations were generated from lymphoblast-derived cell lines for human, common chimpanzee, pygmy chimpanzee ( Pan paniscus ; PPA), gorilla and orangutan.

  • Comparative analysis using material from other great apes including gorilla and orangutan indicated the inversion event was restricted to the chimpanzee lineage.

  • During this analysis, chimpanzee, pygmy chimpanzee, gorilla and orangutan chromosomes were assayed for the species-specificity of the pericentric inversion (Figure 2).

  • Previous reports indicated that the inversion of human 15q11-q13 in the chimpanzee genome occurred solely in the chimpanzee lineage, whereas humans share the ancestral state with the gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla ; GGO) and orangutan ( Pongo pygmaeus ; PPY).


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