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Orangutan vs Gibbon - What's the difference?

orangutan | gibbon |

As nouns the difference between orangutan and gibbon

is that orangutan is an arboreal anthropoid ape genus Pongo consisting of two species, Pongo pygmaeus of Borneo and Pongo abelii of Sumatra, having a shaggy reddish-brown coat, very long arms, and no tail while gibbon is a small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.

orangutan

English

(wikipedia orangutan)

Alternative forms

* orang utan, orang-utan, orang-utang, orangutang, orangoutan, orangoutang

Noun

(en noun)
  • An arboreal anthropoid ape genus Pongo'' consisting of two species, ''Pongo pygmaeus'' of Borneo and ''Pongo abelii of Sumatra, having a shaggy reddish-brown coat, very long arms, and no tail.

    • gibbon

    English

    (wikipedia gibbon)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.