Book reviews: Orangutans: Geographic Variation in Behavioral Ecology and Conservation

摘要

Orangutans, the sole great apes of Asia, are large, ar-nboreal frugivores with a unique, semisolitary but complexnsocial organization. Fifty years ago orangutans in thenwild were the great unknown. As late as 1995, a booknentitled The Neglected Ape could be published, indicatingnthe relative lack of knowledge concerning orangutannpopulations in the wild. To a great extent, Orangutans