Culture and geographic variation in orangutan behavior

Current Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 1808-1812

  Krützen, Michael ^a   Willems, Erik P ^a   Van Schaik, Carel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BORNEO; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; INDONESIA; LEARNING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; ORANG UTAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BORNEO; ENVIRONMENT; INDONESIA; LEARNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PONGO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

AVES; HOMINIDAE; PONGO; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 80755163548     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.09.017     Document Type: Article

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