URGENT ACTION REQUIRED TO AVERT ECOLOGICAL DISASTER IN SUMATRA
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mym1
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Primate Behavior
Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) Click here to download a 2MB video of an orangutan at Suaq Balimbing making and using a feeding tool. Bonobos (Pan paniscus, a.k.a. pygmy chimpanzees) (photos by F.J. White) . |
"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it the right way, did not become still more complicated." --Poul Anderson
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Tool use by orangutans and other non-human primates. Click here to download a 2MB video of an orangutan at Suaq Balimbing making and using a feeding tool. The origins of culture, social transmission of information, and interpopulation variation in the great apes. Click here to learn more about cultural variation in the chimpanzee. Field studies of orangutans in Indonesia. Click here to see more about the Suaq Balimbing Research Station. Evolutionary biology and ecological systems concepts workshop. Click here to learn more about the Sim-Bio-Sys: Simulating Biological Systems workshop. |
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Cooperative behavior and alliances between unrelated individuals in non-human primates and other mammals. The evolution of infanticidal behavior in female mammals. Teaching Evolutionary Biology, Primate Biology and introductory Biological Anthropology courses. Field studies of bonobos at Lomako Forest, Equateur, Zaire. Field studies of elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) at Año Nuevo, California. |
PROFESSIONAL: Links to information on primates and evolutionary biology.
PERSONAL and POLITICAL: Links to political information and activist sites, plus some of my favorite people, places and slack-time activities (cool images and fun stuff).
Last modified 22-Oct-2003
