Kimberly Monroe
SPCM 200
February 16 2015 Informative speech outline
I. [Attention getter]: According to All World Primates, a database with the research from 300 scientists observations on primate behavior, there are about 612 species and subspecies in the world. 30% of these are endangered, including the Orangutans.
II. Orangutan translates into person of the forest.
A. National Geographics website says that these primates are only found in Sumatra and Bornea. Sumatra is an island that is a part of Indonesia. Bornea is east of Sumatra and southeast of Asia.
III. I am currently in an Evolution of primate behavior class
A. I found that Orangutans were the most unique primates we had discussed.
B. They are apart of the Homonoid group as
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Orangutans are mostly frugivorous eaters, which means that they prefer to eat fruit.
A. Unfortunately, they only have a drastic seasonal changes that causes a huge fluctuation in the fruit the can forage in a year.
1. The trees tend to have massed fruiting events which is only a short period of time and leaves long periods of time in which Orangutans don't get to eat fruit.
2. When this happens they are forced to turn to fall- back foods which are less preferred things like leaves. B. Orangutans are unique with the one fall back they focus on, which is bark.
1. They actually have dental adaptations to account for this odd diet.
2. It is my understanding from what I learned in class that they don't like to eat the bark.
3. The reason they eat the bark is because it is an attainable resource they have during the months in which they have to resort to fall-back foods.
C. Orangutans actually have an extremely low metabolism that allows them to live off this bark for months and survive.
1. During the fruit massing season Orangutans eat 8 to 9 thousand calories a day.
2. There low metabolism allows for them to store most of these calories for the months in which the live on