Orangutan fish eating, primate aquatic fauna eating, and their implications for the origins of ancestral hominin fish eating

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 77, Issue , 2014, Pages 50-63

  Russon, Anne E ^a,c   Compost, Alain ^b   Kuncoro, Purwo ^c   Ferisa, Agnes ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Orangutan Kutai Project ^*  (Indonesia)

^c Orangutan Kutai Project   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Aquatic resources; Borneo; Early hominin diets; Innovation; Pongo; Primate diets

Indexed keywords

PONGO; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FISH; HUMAN; MALE; ORANGUTAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SEA FOOD;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FISHES; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; MALE; PONGO; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEAFOOD;

EID: 84920556748     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.06.007     Document Type: Article

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