Talk:Orangutan
Latest comment: 12 years ago by Macdonald-ross in topic Name
 | A fact from Orangutan appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 1 August 2011. |  |
Name change
When and why did the name change from Orangutang to Orangutan?
- It didn't. The common name has always been spelled in different ways, and that doesn't matter. Pongo is its scientific name, and that does not change. Macdonald-ross (talk) 13:30, 29 January 2012 (UTC)