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

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

This ebook has major goals. the 1st is to scrupulously evaluate facts from each orangutan learn 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 modifications and similarities should be defined. to accomplish those targets the editors have assembled the world's best orangutan specialists to scrupulously synthesize and examine the information, quantify the similarities or ameliorations, and search to provide 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 information, constructing a theoretical framework to give an explanation for morphological, existence background, and behavioral version. Intriguingly, no longer all behavioral adjustments will be attributed to ecological version among and in the islands; relative charges of social studying additionally seem to have been influential. The booklet additionally emphasizes the the most important effect of human cost on orangutans and appears forward to the longer term customers for the survival of significantly endangered traditional populations.

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