Which nests to choose: Collecting shed hairs from wild orang-utans

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-26

  Goossens, Benoît ^a,b,c   Abdullah, Zulkiflie B ^b   Sinyor, Jamil B ^b   Ancrenaz, Marc ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Kinabatangan Orangutan Conserv P   (Malaysia)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Faeces; Nest; Non invasive sampling; Pongo pygmaeus; Shed hair

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FECES; HAIR; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALAYSIA; METHODOLOGY; PLANT LEAF;

ANIMALS; FECES; HAIR; MALAYSIA; PLANT LEAVES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

ANIMALIA; ANTHROPOIDEA; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 0345772214     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000073427     Document Type: Article

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