Fresh strategies to save orangutans
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Orangutans employ unique strategies to control branch flexibility.
Orangutans are the largest habitually arboreal mammal. For them, as for all arboreal mammals, access to the abundant fruits and narrowest gaps found among the thin peripheral branches of tree crowns poses considerable safety risks and energetic demands. Most arboreal primates use flexed-limb postures to minimize problems caused by branch compliance and instability. Here, we show that Sumatran o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/535493a