Reproductive success of Bornean orangutan males: scattered in time but clustered in space
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 · 2023
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Maria van Noordwijk and colleagues trace reproductive success of male Bornean orangutans, finding fatherhood scattered in time but clustered in space. Their 2023 genetic study reports twenty-one assigned paternities at an Indonesian research site.
Orangutan mating systems remain poorly understood: females keep overlapping home ranges while males roam widely and mature in two forms. All infants with identified fathers since mid-twenty oh three were sired by fully developed cheek-padded males. Yet fathers were not consistently dominant, and several sired multiple infants over roughly a decade. Sires spent most time within the home ranges of the females whose infants they fathered, linking success to location rather than lasting dominance.
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| CREATOR | 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 |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 63 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |