Back to the wild: will reintroduction and rehabilitation help the long-term conservation of orang-utans in Indonesia?
Back to the wild: will reintroduction and rehabilitation help the long-term conservation of orang-utans in Indonesia?
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DOI:
10.1177/0539018406063643
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发表时间:
2006-06-01
影响因子:
1.1
通讯作者:
Grundmann, E
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作者:
Grundmann, E
The orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii) living on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra are among the first victims of the large-scale deforestation and exploitation of the south-east tropical rainforest. Rehabilitation and reintroduction of confiscated orang-utans back into their original habitat were initiated in the 1960s. The orang-utan community that has been reintroduced in the Meratus forest since 1997 presents an ideal opportunity to study the successes and failures of the re-adaptation of individuals whose maternal bond has been broken at various ages, interrupting their learning phase. This study enables us to evaluate to what extent learning from others, including humans, is crucial to this process and in what ways ethology and ethnology might merge to achieve a better understanding of the rehabilitation process.