Bornean orangutans, Pongo pygmaeus. Critically endangered. Two juvenile orangutans were imported by WIlliam V of Holland and included in Arnout Vosmaer's Description d'un receuil exquis d'animaux rares. Oran otan, Simia satyrus. Copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw’s General Zoology: Mammalia, G. Kearsley, Fleet Street, London, 1800.

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