Orangutan Culture

Gisela Kaplan

Orangutan Culture

Gisela Kaplan

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior
Editors	Marc Bekoff
Place of Publication	Westport, United States of America
Publisher	Greenwood Press
Pages	457-466
Volume	1
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	0313327467, 0313327459
Publication status	Published - 2004

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Animal Behaviour

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