First Bornean orangutan sighting in Usun Apau National Park, Sarawak

Wildlife surveys were conducted in Usun Apau National Park (UANP), Sarawak from Oct 2017 to Oct 2020. This was the first attempt to document fauna diversity in Usun Apau National Park on the UANP plateau at 1200-1400 m a.s.l. On 17 September 2020, 10 AM, we observed an orangutan individual, Pongo py...

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Autores principales: Ampeng, Ahmad, Liam, Jack, Simpson, Boyd, Traelholt, Carl, Md Nor, Shukor, Abdan-Saleman, Mohd Shamsul Bahri, Osman, Syafiani, Zakaria, Shaffeqe Affendy, Md-Zain, Badrul Munir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7846550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33531863
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e60753
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Sumario:Wildlife surveys were conducted in Usun Apau National Park (UANP), Sarawak from Oct 2017 to Oct 2020. This was the first attempt to document fauna diversity in Usun Apau National Park on the UANP plateau at 1200-1400 m a.s.l. On 17 September 2020, 10 AM, we observed an orangutan individual, Pongo pygmaeus, over a period of one minute at Libut Camp UANP (E: 114039’.546, N: 2052’36.44) at 1,020 m a.s.l. We also recorded four nests and orangutan vocalisation twice. This observation is important for Bornean orangutan conservation as this was the first orangutan sighting in UANP and well outside the species distribution range for in Sarawak.

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