Diet traditions in wild orangutans

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 175-187

  Bastian, Meredith L ^a,b   Zweifel, Nicole ^c   Vogel, Erin R ^d   Wich, Serge A ^e,f   Van Schaik, Carel P ^a,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Gunung Palung Orangutan Project   (Indonesia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Great Ape Trust of Iowa   (United States)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Culture; Food selection; Geographic variation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BORNEO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BORNEO; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PONGO PYGMAEUS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77956641713     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21304     Document Type: Article

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