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Orang-utans in Borneo /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaplan, Gisela T.
Other Authors: Rogers, Lesley J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Armidale, N.S.W. [Australia] : University of New England Press, 1994.
Subjects:
Pongo pygmaeus.
Ecology.
Behavior, Animal.
Borneo.
Table of Contents:
  • The cultural context
  • Attitudes to orang-utans
  • Malaysia
  • East Malaysia
  • Local orang-utan stories
  • Orang-utan habitat
  • The rainforest
  • Climate and conditions for research
  • The field researchers and the researched (distribution of orang-utans)
  • Rehabilitation centres, national parks, reserves
  • Sepilok
  • Debates surrounding the orang-utan
  • Anatomical and genetic debtes
  • Genes and evolution
  • Locomotion
  • Ground versus arboreal living
  • Dietary habits of the orang-utan
  • Sexual behaviour and reproduction
  • Sociality and gender difference
  • Individual development and sexual behaviour
  • Sexual interaction
  • Mother-infant interaction
  • Introducing "our" orang-utans
  • How does one get to know an orang-utan?
  • Orang-utans and human contact
  • Provisioning
  • Introducing "our" study orang-utans
  • A brain like humans?
  • Handedness and left-right differences in the brain
  • Lateralisations in orang-utans
  • Tool using and cognition
  • Problem solving
  • Communication