Back to the wild: Will reintroduction and rehabilitation help the long-term conservation of orang-utans in Indonesia?

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Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 265-284

  Grundmann, Emmanuelle ^a,b  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Conservation; Great apes; Learning; Orang; Rehabilitation; Reintroduction; Utan

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646401097     PISSN: 05390184     EISSN: 14617412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0539018406063643     Document Type: Article

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