猩猩: an orangutan or a gorilla?
In one of the children books, they use猩猩 to refer to an orangutan. When I type 猩猩 in Google search, the photos of gorilla appear. So, how do you call an orangutan and how do you call a gorilla in Chinese?
Is 猩猩an orangutan and大猩猩a gorilla?
Thank you!

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yes, and Chimpanzee =黑猩猩.
Sometimes we also call orangutan 红毛猩猩——that sounds less misleading.

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orangutang（猩猩）gorilla（大猩猩）chimpanzee（黑猩猩）
As for me, it's not a question about language but a biological problrm. Most Chinese call this three kinds of animals both as 猩猩or 大猩猩for convinet. We don't consider their differences seriously in our daily life. (*^__^*)  I have to admit that people like me lack of the knowledge about animals.

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Hi, Vika! :)

You can find the answer here:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-chinese-traditional/orang-utan

and

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-chinese-traditional/gorilla

Hope they help!

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