Sanctuary
Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre
🇲🇾 Malaysia
🛖 Sanctuary, Malaysia 7 spp. present
Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre is located about 25 kilometres west of Sandakan in the state of Sabah, Malaysia. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
5.865° N 117.949° E
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Essentials
Entrance
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Tourism
High
Species present
7
speciesOpened
1964
Size
Large
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What visitors say
🦒 Animals in captivity
Dumeril's Monitor
Varanus dumerilii
Ray-finned Fishes
Actinopterygii
Sunda Box Turtle
Cuora couro
Before you go
Where is Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre?
Malaysia
Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre is a sanctuary in Malaysia. Its coordinates are 5.865° N, 117.949° E. The nearest national park in our atlas is Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, about 46 km away.
What animals can you see at Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre?
7 species
Citizen-science photos record 7 species at Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre, including Pond Slider, Dumeril's Monitor, Bornean Orangutan, Sun Bear and Proboscis Monkey. Those with a page of their own in our atlas show the odds of seeing them in the wild.
Where can you see the animals of Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre in the wild?
Pond Slider: Congaree National Park
Some of the animals photographed at Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre also live in the parks and cities we cover: Pond Slider (about 50% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Congaree National Park), Bornean Orangutan (about 80% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Tanjung Puting National Park) and Sun Bear (about 50% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Kaeng Krachan National Park).
When did Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre open and how big is it?
Opened 1964, 4,300 ha
Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre, a sanctuary in Malaysia, opened in 1964 and covers about 4,300 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 7 species are photographed there.
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Sources: Wikidata (CC0) · iNaturalist observers · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)