Pongo pygmaeus
First report of Leishmania infantum infection in the endangered orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus) in Madrid, Spain
... Results: Two cases of clinical leishmaniosis are reported in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus) housed at two different centres in Madrid. The first is the case of a 36-year-old male orangutan with ...
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A New Group of Hepadnaviruses Naturally Infecting Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)
... Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) are the only great apes found outside Africa. The wild populations are restricted to the is- lands of Borneo and Sumatra. Orangutans are highly endan- gered as a result of ...
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Gait parameters in vertical climbing of captive, rehabilitant and wild Sumatran orang utans (Pongo pygmaeus abelii)
... Vertical climbing is central to the locomotor and foraging strategies of the great apes and, indeed, to theories about the evolution of locomotor specialisations of hominoid primates. Nevertheless, its kinematics have ...
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Production and comprehension of gestures between orang utans (Pongo pygmaeus) in a referential communication game
... Scoring Apes’ interactions were observed to see 1 whether and with what accuracy Bimbo would try to indicate to the female or to E1 the location of the hidden pellet, and 2 whether and w[r] ...
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Monkeys (Sapajus apella and Macaca tonkeana) and great apes (Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus, Pongo abelii, Pan paniscus and Pan troglodytes) play for the highest bid
... Expected Value, Maximin, Maximax are given for each lottery: G refers to gambling, NG to.. not gambling and ~ to indifference.[r] ...
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Attention following and nonverbal referential communication in bonobos (Pan paniscus), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)
... This apparent species difference appears to have been a ‘true’ difference, as the bonobos received a higher proportion of experimental trials that required conspecifics to follow communi[r] ...
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Why human environments enhance animal capacities to use objects : evidence from keas (Nestor notabilis) and apes (Gorilla gorilla, Pan paniscus, Pongo abelii, Pongo pygmaeus)
... for differences between captive and home-reared great apes in social cognition,... Object use in human environments.[r] ...
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Gestural communication in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii) : a cognitive approach
... In comparing aspects of orangutan gestural communication to human language, and in using communicative strategies to gain insight into the social cognition of the species, it is essentia[r] ...
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Toxoplasma gondii : prevalence in species and genotypes of British bats (Pipistrellus pipistrellus and P pygmaeus)
... P. pygmaeus (n = 6) was provided by The South Lancashire Bat Group (Registered Charity ...Pipistrellus pygmaeus (n = 6) were all collected at the same location ...
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Organisation of the dopamine neuronal subsets within midbrain of the feathertail glider (Acrobates pygmaeus, Acrobatidae, Marsupialia)
... Ventral tier of the SN is the main source of ni- grostriatal neurons, projecting to the striatal patches, which regulate basal ganglia information processing. Disruption of these pathways causes motor dysfunc- tions. For ...
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Comparison of spatiotemporal gait characteristics between vertical climbing and horizontal walking in primates
... For single-camera recordings, calibration for distance was performed by using a known length in the view of the camera in the same plane as the animal was moving. For data collected with two cameras (i.e. all vertical ...
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Tobacco as Banker Plant for Macrolophus Pygmaeus to Control Trialeurodes Vaporariorum in Tomato Crops
... Macrolophus pygmaeus Rambur (Heteroptera: Miridae) is commonly employed to control whiteflies Trialeurodes vaporariorum Westwood (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae), a common pest on ...M. pygmaeus, T. vaporariorum, ...
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Managing conflict between bats and humans: The response of soprano pipistrelles (pipistrellus pygmaeus) to exclusion from roosts in houses
... Conflict can arise when bats roost in human dwellings and householders are affected adversely by their presence. In the United Kingdom, the exclusion of bats from roosts can be licensed under exceptional circumstances to ...
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Projected near-future CO2 levels increase activity and alter defensive behaviours in the tropical squid Idiosepius pygmaeus
... I. pygmaeus is a tropical species of squid within the order Sepiolida, and it can be found in the Indo-Pacific from the South China Sea to northern Australia and inhabits shallow coastal waters (Semmens et ...
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Prey capture success revealed by echolocation signals in pipistrelle bats (Pipistrellus pygmaeus)
... We analysed five pursuit sequences from Danish P. pygmaeus recorded in an open area where more bats were hunting in a group (courtesy of Marianne E. Jensen) (Table 2). Obviously, the field recordings are of more ...
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The interplay of prior experience and motivation in great ape problem solving (Gorilla gorilla, Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, and Pongo abelii)
... apparatus solved the task more quickly in the baited condition than apes who started with this.. Moreover, apes starting with the baited condition took longer to collapse the platform.[r] ...
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Orangutans (Pongo abelii) make flexible decisions relative to reward quality and tool functionality in a multi dimensional tool use task
... Orangutans should be able to make profitable decisions relative to reward quality since they were able to inhibit eating preferred food for more than one minute in order to maximize thei[r] ...
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The roles of traditional knowledge systems in orang-utan Pongo spp. and forest conservation: a case study of Danau Sentarum, West Kalimantan, Indonesia
... Abstract The orang-utan Pongo spp. is protected by nation- al and international legislation, yet populations continue to decline. Many reports implicate local people in the poaching and illegal trade in ...
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Rehabilitation and Reintroduction of wild born orphan chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) within the pongo and okokong islands of the douala-edea wildlife reserve, Littoral Region Cameroon
... the Pongo Island and a second group made of 6 chimpanzees (4 males and 2 females) were released on the Okokong Island in 2010; one female was later introduced to this group early ...
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The synchronisation of signal emission with wingbeat during the approach phase in soprano pipistrelles (Pipistrellus pygmaeus)
... (Pipistrellus pygmaeus) (PP1–PP6) were kept in the laboratory on a staple diet of mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) supplemented with buffalo worms (Alphiobius diaperinus), waxmoths (Galleria mellonella), black ...
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