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Orangutan babies are extremely dependent on their mothers. They nurse on their mother's milk for up to 6-8 years before leading an independent life. The mother teaches them which fruits to eat, where to search for fruits, & what kinds of habitats are more suitable. Without a mother, young orangutans can't survive long on their own. Orangutans are highly arboreal. They mostly live in the tree canopy & are naturally found in Borneo & Sumatra in Indonesia, with no continuous forest patch connecting India & the Indonesian islands. Since orangutan mothers are highly protective, they defend their young aggressively. In many wildlife trafficking cases, criminals are known to first separate the mother from her young, & in many cases the mother is killed. A species that evolved in tropical rainforests, heavily dependent on wild fruits, can't survive in deciduous forests. Orangutans are among the great apes that share the same evolutionary roots as us humans.