Maria A van Noordwijk, Laura R LaBarge, Julia A Kunz, Anna M Marzec, Brigitte Spillmann, Corinne Ackermann, Puji Rianti, Erin R Vogel, S Suci Utami Atmoko, Michael Kruetzen, Carel P van Schaik
ABSTRACT: The social and mating systems of orangutans, one of our closest relatives, remain poorly understood. Orangutans ( Pongo spp . ) are highly sexually dimorphic and females are philopatric and maintain individual, but overlapping home ranges, whereas males disperse, are non-territorial and wide-ranging, and show bimaturism, with many years between reaching sexual maturity and attaining full secondary sexual characteristics (including cheek pads (flanges) and emitting long calls)...
2023: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology