Areas of Focus

Main Long-term Orangutan Research Areas at Tuanan

DIETARY ECOLOGY AND ORANGUTAN HEALTH

  1. Nutritional and mechanical properties of food
  2. Energetics, health, and resource availability
  3. Dietary ecology and foraging decisions
  4. Nutritional immunology
  5. Nutrition an the gut microbiome (Rebecca Brittain)
  6. The effect of fires on orangutan health

LIFE HISTORY

  1. Developmental trajectory
  2. Socio-endocrinology of males and females
  3. Dispersal and socio-genetics

SOCIAL and BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

  1. Social learning of (novel) skills
  2. Geographic variation in diet and learned behavioral elements
  3. Range use by females and by males
  4. Communication and honest signaling