Gunung Palung Orangutan Project
Research on orangutan reproductive ecology, behavioral ecology and socioecology in Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesia (Borneo) with a focus on orangutan, great ape and human evolution.
Topics/Data include:
- Orangutan interbirth intervals and female hormonal functioning
- Hormonal, behavioral and energetic differences between males: bi-maturism and intra-sexual dimorphism in males
- Juvenile development, dependency and learning
- Sex differences in feeding behavior, nutritional intake and foraging
- Inter-population comparison of cultural behaviors and tool use
- Ranging patterns, habitat use and energetics
- Socio-sexual behavior and hormonal correlates
- Orangutan social organization
- Genetic studies of paternity and relatedness
- Skeletal evidence of male-male competition
- Digestion and fecal analysis of juveniles vs. adults
- Infection, parasite load and medicinal plant use
- Habitat quality and orangutan densities
- Canopy locomotion and positional behavior
- Maternal behavior and energetics.