I love this name too. It reminds me of the daddy dog in the book 101 Dalmatians. But... I found this usage--had no idea it was a type of orangutan!
"'They are charming animals, from what I have heard and what little I have seen: gentle, deliberate, with nothing whatsoever of the baboon, the mandril, or even the pongo, let alone the restless petulantwantonness of monkeys in the general sense...'" --Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 191
I love this name too. It reminds me of the daddy dog in the book 101 Dalmatians. But... I found this usage--had no idea it was a type of orangutan!
"'They are charming animals, from what I have heard and what little I have seen: gentle, deliberate, with nothing whatsoever of the baboon, the mandril, or even the pongo, let alone the restless petulant wantonness of monkeys in the general sense...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 191
I approve of this name.
type genus of the family Pongidae, in other words, a large orange orangutang; the long limbed simian of Sumatra.
Name of future pet pug.