Complete the sentence about Orangutan with the correct year: In Western sources, the first printed attestation of the word for the apes is in Dutch physician Jacobus Bontius's ______ Historiae naturalis et medicae Indiae orientalis.

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Correct answer: B. 1631

In Western sources the first printed use of the word for the apes is in Dutch physician Jacobus Bontius's Historiae of 1631. The term may be older in Malay.

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