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Patterns of Infant Care in Wild Siamangs (Symphalangus syndactylus) in Southern Sumatra

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Funding for this research was provided by the Leakey Foundation, Sigma Xi, the Fulbright Student Program, New York University, the New York Consortium for Evolutionary Primatology, and the Margaret and Herman Sokol Foundation, and during the writing stages, by Ewha University and the Amore Pacific Foundation. Permission to conduct research in Indonesia was granted by the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), and permission to conduct research in the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park was granted by the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry’s Department for the Protection and Conservation of Nature (PHKA). I thank the American–Indonesian Exchange Foundation (AMINEF), Universitas Indonesia and the Wildlife Conservation Society–Indonesia Program, and especially Nelly Paliama, Noviar Andayani, Tim O’Brien, and Margaret Kinnaird, for considerable logistical assistance in Indonesia, and Anton Nurcayho, Maya Dewi Prasetyaningrum, Mohammad Iqbal, Teguh Priyanto, Tedy Presetya Utama, Janjiyanto, Sutarmin, Martin Trisunu Wibowo, and Abdul Roshyd for their assistance in the field. Finally, I thank Danielle Whittaker for many helpful comments on this manuscript.

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    Lappan, S. (2009). Patterns of Infant Care in Wild Siamangs (Symphalangus syndactylus) in Southern Sumatra. In: Whittaker, D., Lappan, S. (eds) The Gibbons. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88604-6_16

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