Orangutan Culture

Title
Orangutan Culture
Publication Date
2004
Author(s)
Kaplan, Gisela
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2476-2088
Email: gkaplan@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:gkaplan
Editor
Editor(s): Marc Bekoff
Type of document
Entry In Reference Work
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Place of publication
Westport, United States of America
Edition
1
UNE publication id
une:2694
Abstract
The orangutan, together with all the great apes, is one of our closest relatives. Although this relationship is not a simple linear ancestry, Homo Sapiens and the orangutan had a common ancestor living about 10-12 million years ago. The ancestral orangutans were larger than extant ones, and they are thought to have lived a less arboreal existence, but over many generations evolutionary pressures, such as predation, might have forced them back into the trees. Their ground predators include the clouded leopard and the Sumatran tiger but, in general, orangutans have had relatively few predators, apart from humans.
Link
Citation
Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, v.1, p. 457-466
ISBN
0313327467
0313327459
Start page
457
End page
466

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