Although self-medication in non-human animals is often difficult to document systematically
due to the difficulty of predicting its occurrence, there is widespread evidence of such …

Researchers have suggested that fallback foods (FBFs) shape primate food processing
adaptations, whereas preferred foods drive harvesting adaptations, and that the dietary …

Young orangutans are highly neophobic, avoid independent exploration and show a
preference for social learning. Accordingly, they acquire virtually all their learned skills …

The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology
series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral …

Physical anthropologists use the term “fallback foods” to denote resources of relatively poor
nutritional quality that become particularly important dietary components during periods …

Experiments have shown that captive great apes are capable of observational learning, and
patterns of cultural variation between populations suggest that they use this capacity in the …

Intersexual conflicts over mating can engender antagonistic coevolution of strategies, such
as coercion by males and selective resistance by females. Orangutans are exceptional …

Deforestation is rapidly transforming primary forests across the tropics into human-
dominated landscapes. Consequently, conservationists need to understand how different …

The spatial and temporal variation in food abundance has strong effects on wildlife feeding
and nutrition. This variation is exemplified by the peatland forests of Central Kalimantan …

In contrast to the African great apes, orangutans (Pongo spp.) are semisolitary: Individuals
are often on their own, but form aggregations more often than expected by chance. These …