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32,600 Hours Show Orangutan Mothers Arranging Playdates

Fifteen years of GPS tracks from wild Bornean orangutans show mothers traveling farther and feeding less so their infants can play with peers.

The third figure in a new PNAS paper1 on orangutan mothers includes a single dyad-day from the Tuanan research station in Central Kalimantan, 4 February 2006, drawn as three colored tracks. Two females appear on the map, Mindy and Jinak, each inside a dashed outline marking where she spends half her time, each with a diamond for the center of her range o…

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