Orangutans Show Vulnerability and Resilience to Different Kinds of Human Influences (3 of 12) (IMAGE)

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Orangutans Show Vulnerability and Resilience to Different Kinds of Human Influences (3 of 12)

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Orangutan in heavily disturbed landscape dominated by oil palm plantations in the Lower Kinabatangan floodplain, Malaysian Borneo. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 27 June 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.N. Spehar at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh in Oshkosh, WI, and colleagues was titled, "Orangutans venture out of the rainforest and into the Anthropocene."

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[Credit: HUTAN/KOCP (Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Programme)]

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