Orangutan

The orangutans are vital animals to the food web because they eat the seeds of fruits from the native trees. When the seed goes through their system it is pollinated. It comes out of their system and grows into a native tree. This supplies lots of food to other consumers, such as native birds and other species of monkey. As orangutans are secondary consumers they don’t just eat fruits and leaves, they also eat insects. Because of a lack of food, they are forced into other parts of the forest to eat food as they can no longer eat from that area due to plantations. Six thousand orangutans die because 80% of their habitat is lost every year. Sometimes they wander into the palm oil plantations hungry looking for food and some workers find them. The workers are told that if they see any animals in the way they have to shoot them.