Orangutans: Geographic Variation in Behavioral Ecology and by Serge A. Wich,S. Suci Utami Atmoko,Tatang Mitra Setia,Carel

By Serge A. Wich,S. Suci Utami Atmoko,Tatang Mitra Setia,Carel P. van Schaik

This booklet describes one in all our closest family, the orangutan, and the single extant nice ape in Asia. it truly is more and more transparent that orangutan populations express huge version in behavioral ecology, morphology, lifestyles background, and genes. certainly, at the energy of the most recent genetic and morphological proof, it's been proposed that orangutans really represent species which diverged greater than 1000000 years in the past - one at the island of Sumatra the opposite on Borneo, with the latter comprising 3 subspecies.

This e-book has major goals. the 1st is to scrupulously evaluate information from each orangutan examine web site, interpreting the diversities and similarities among orangutan species, subspecies and populations. the second one is to boost a theoretical framework within which those transformations and similarities may be defined. to accomplish those targets the editors have assembled the world's best orangutan specialists to scrupulously synthesize and evaluate the information, quantify the similarities or changes, and search to give an explanation for them.

Orangutans is the 1st synthesis of orangutan biology to undertake this novel, comparative process. It analyses and compares the most recent info, constructing a theoretical framework to provide an explanation for morphological, lifestyles heritage, and behavioral version. Intriguingly, no longer all behavioral adjustments may be attributed to ecological edition among and in the islands; relative premiums of social studying additionally seem to have been influential. The ebook additionally emphasizes the the most important impression of human cost on orangutans and appears forward to the longer term clients for the survival of seriously endangered normal populations.

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