Meat-eating by adult female Sumatran ora
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Sri Suci Utami; Jan A. R. A. M. Van Hooff
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Information about meat-eating behavior by wild orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) is scant. The first article about such a case dates from 1981. Since 1989, seven incidents of adult female Sumatran orangutans eating slow lorises (Nycticebus coucang) have been witnessed. Three females from two study sites w