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Manufacture and use of tools in wild Sumatran orangutans

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  1. C. P. van Schaik

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  1. Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University, 27708, Durham, NC, USA

    C. P. van Schaik & E. A. Fox

  2. Department of Biology, University of Indonesia, 16424, Depok, Indonesia

    A. F. Sitompul

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van Schaik, C.P., Fox, E.A. & Sitompul, A.F. Manufacture and use of tools in wild Sumatran orangutans. Naturwissenschaften 83, 186–188 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01143062

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