Body mass of wild bornean orangutans living in human-dominated landscapes: Implications for understanding their ecology and conservation.
ABSTRACT Body mass is a key determinant of a species' ecology, including locomotion, foraging strategies, and energetics. Accurate information on the body mass of wild primates allows us to develop explanatory models for relationships among body size, ecology, and behavior and is crucial for reconst...
| Published in: | American Journal of Physical Anthropology Vol. 157; no. 2; pp. 339 - 347 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=102714798&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 102714798 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00029483 APX jtl: American Journal of Physical Anthropology issn: 00029483 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jun2015 vid: 157 iid: 2 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 102714798 10.1002/ajpa.22709 ppf: 339 ppct: 8 formats: tig: atl: Body mass of wild bornean orangutans living in human-dominated landscapes: Implications for understanding their ecology and conservation. aug: au: Rayadin, Yaya Spehar, Stephanie N. affil: Ecology and Conservation Center for Tropical Studies (ECOSITROP), Samarinda East Kalimantan, Indonesia Biodiversity Conservation Laboratory, Forestry Faculty of Mulawarman University, Samarinda 75123, East Kalimantan, Indonesia Anthropology Program, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh WI, 54901, USA su: Body weight Diseases Bornean orangutan Locomotion Primates Allometry Mammals sug: subj: Body weight Diseases Bornean orangutan Locomotion Primates Allometry Mammals keyword: allometry energetics Pongo pygmaeus morio allometry energetics Pongo pygmaeus morio ab: ABSTRACT Body mass is a key determinant of a species' ecology, including locomotion, foraging strategies, and energetics. Accurate information on the body mass of wild primates allows us to develop explanatory models for relationships among body size, ecology, and behavior and is crucial for reconstructing the ecology and behavior of fossil primates and hominins. Information on body mass can also provide indirect information on health and can be an important tool for conservation in the context of increasingly widespread habitat disturbance. This study reports body mass data recorded for wild Northeast Bornean orangutans ( Pongo pygmaeus morio) during relocation efforts in forestry and oil palm plantations in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The average mass of flanged adult males ( n = 12, 74 ± 9.78 kg) and adult females ( n = 7, 35.29 ± 7.32 kg) from this study were 13.6% and 9% lower, respectively, than the only other published wild Bornean orangutan body mass measurements, but the range of weights for both males and females was larger for this study. This pattern could be due to sampling error, data collection differences, or the influence of habitat disturbance, specifically a lack of access to resources, on individual health. When necessary relocations present the opportunity, we encourage researchers to prioritize the collection of body size data for the purposes of understanding ecology but also as an indirect means of monitoring population viability. As primate habitat becomes increasingly fragmented and altered by humans such data will become critical to our ability to make informed conservation decisions. Am J Phys Anthropol 157:339-346, 2015. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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