The behaviour and ecology of wild orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus)

J MacKinnon - Animal behaviour, 1974 - Elsevier
… Although known to science for 300 years the orang-utan Pongo pygmaeus has remained
the least understood of the apes. Tales of early travellers (Schlegal & Miiller 1839--44; …

Innovation in wild Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii)

CP van Schaik, MA van Noordwijk, SA Wich - Behaviour, 2006 - brill.com
… A natural population of orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) was studied in the peat-swamp
forest at Tuanan (Mawas, Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia), located at 2 ◦ 09 06 S, and …

[PDF][PDF] Gestural communication of orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)

K Liebal, S Pika, M Tomasello - Gesture, 2006 - eva.mpg.de
orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus abelii), with a focus on intentional signals in two groups of
captive orangutans. … According to the daily routine, the orangutans had the possibility to retreat …

Speciation and Intrasubspecific Variation of Bornean Orangutans, Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus

KS Warren, EJ Verschoor… - Molecular Biology …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) exists in the wild only on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra.
Orangutans are … , the Bornean (Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus) and the Sumatran (Pongo

The nature and evolution of intelligence in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)

AE Russon - Primates, 1998 - Springer
Orangutans should then show hierarchical intelligence when obtaining difficult … orangutans'
techniques for processing difficult foods concurs. Intellectual qualities distinct to orangutans

Positional behavior of female bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)

JGH Cant - American Journal of Primatology, 1987 - Wiley Online Library
… I suggest that regardless of precisely how the orangutan came to possess its present
postcranial morphology (supra), the morphology provides remarkable suspensory capacities that …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic differentiation among natural populations of orang-utan (Pongo pygmaeus)

L Zhi, WB Karesh, DN Janczewski, H Frazier-Taylor… - Current Biology, 1996 - cell.com
… Background Orang-utans exist today in small isolated populations on the islands of
Borneo (subspecies Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus) and Sumatra (subspecies P. p. abelii). …

The behavioral ecology and conservation of the orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus): A tale of two islands

RA Delgado Jr, CP Van Schaik - … Anthropology: Issues, News …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
… Most researchers recognize two separate subspecies, Pongo pygmaeus abelii in Sumatra
and Pp pygmaeus in Borneo.Relative to other primates, they have a variety of unusual …

Hand preferences and other lateral biases in rehabilitated orang-utans, Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus

LJ Rogers, G Kaplan - Animal Behaviour, 1996 - Elsevier
… Most of the older orangutans no longer had close contact with humans but visited the
provisioning sites regularly. Most of these orang-utans had suffered the trauma of being separated …

How orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) innovate for water.

AE Russon, P Kuncoro, A Ferisa… - Journal of Comparative …, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
… We report an observational field study that aimed to identify innovative processes in rehabilitant
orangutans’ (Pongo pygmaeus) water innovations on Kaja Island, Central Kalimantan, …