Publications of the Max Planck Fellow Group Comparative Socioecology

Aguado, W. D.; Zulfa, A.; Bransford, T. D.; Makur, K. P.; van Noordwijk, M. A.; Utami Atmoko, S. S.; Vogel, E. R.: Nutritional importance of a liana species for a population of Bornean orangutans. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 186 (4), e70042 (2025)

Fröhlich, M.; van Noordwijk, M. A.; Setia, T. M.; van Schaik, C. P.; Knief, U.: Wild and captive immature orangutans differ in their non-vocal communication with others, but not with their mothers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 78 (1), 12 (2024)

Gunasekaram, C.; Battiston, F.; Sadekar, O.; Padilla-Iglesias, C.; van Noordwijk, M. A.; Furrer, R.; Manica, A.; Bertranpetit, J.; Whiten, A.; van Schaik, C. P. et al.; Vinicius, L.; Migliano, A. B.: Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture. Science 386 (6724), pp. 920 - 925 (2024)

Kunz, J. A.; Falkner, S. S.; Aprilinayati, F.; Duvot, G. J.; Fröhlich, M.; Willems, E. P.; Atmoko, S. S. U.; van Schaik, C. P.; Schuppli, C.; van Noordwijk, M. A.: Play behavior varies with age, sex, and socioecological context in wild, immature Orangutans (Pongo spp.). International Journal of Primatology (2024)

Mörchen, J.; Luhn, F.; Wassmer, O.; Kunz, J. A.; Kulik, L.; van Noordwijk, M. A.; Rianti, P.; Rahmaeti, T.; Atmoko, S. S. U.; Widdig, A. et al.; Schuppli, C.: Orangutan males make increased use of social learning opportunities, when resource availability is high. iScience 27 (2), 108940 (2024)

Revathe, T.; Mundry, R.; Utami-Atmoko, S. S.; Perawati, D.; Bürkner, P.-C.; van Noordwijk, M. A.; Schuppli, C.: Maternal behavior in Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) is modulated by mother-offspring characteristics and socioecological factors. International Journal of Primatology (2024)

Kunz, J. A.; Duvot, G. J.; Ashbury, A. M.; Willems, E. P.; Spillmann, B.; Dunkel, L. P.; bin Abdullah, M.; Schuppli, C.; Vogel, E. R.; Atmoko, S. S. U. et al.; van Noordwijk, M. A.; van Schaik, C. P.: Alternative reproductive tactics of unflanged and flanged male orangutans revisited. American Journal of Primatology 85 (9), e23535 (2023)

Mörchen, J.; Luhn, F.; Wassmer, O.; Kunz, J. A.; Kulik, L.; van Noordwijk, M. A.; van Schaik, C. P.; Rianti, P.; Atmoko, S. S. U.; Widdig, A. et al.; Schuppli, C.: Migrant orangutan males use social learning to adapt to new habitat after dispersal. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11, 1158887 (2023)

van Noordwijk, M. A.; LaBarge, L. R.; Kunz, J. A.; Marzec, A. M.; Spillmann, B.; Ackermann, C.; Rianti, P.; Vogel, E. R.; Atmoko, S. S. U.; Kruetzen, M. et al.; van Schaik, C. P.: Reproductive success of Bornean orangutan males: scattered in time but clustered in space. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 77 (12), 134 (2023)

Ashbury, A. M.; Meric de Bellefon, J.; Kunz, J. A.; Abdullah, M.; Marzec, A. M.; Fryns, C.; Utami Atmoko, S. S.; van Schaik, C. P.; van Noordwijk, M. A.: After the smoke has cleared: Extended low fruit productivity following forest fires decreased gregariousness and social tolerance among wild female Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii). International Journal of Primatology 43 (2), pp. 189 - 215 (2022)

Fröhlich, M.; van Schaik, C. P.; van Noordwijk, M. A.; Knief, U.: Individual variation and plasticity in the infant-directed communication of orang-utan mothers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289 (1975), 20220200 (2022)

Fröhlich, M.; Bartolotta, N.; Fryns, C.; Wagner, C.; Momon, L.; Jaffrezic, M.; Setia, T. M.; Schuppli, C.; van Noordwijk, M. A.; van Schaik, C. P.: Orang-utans have larger gestural repertoires in captivity than in the wild–a case of weak innovation? iScience 24 (11), 103304 (2021)

Kunz, J. A.; van Noordwijk, M. A.; van Schaik, C. P.: Orangutan sexual behavior. In: The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology: Volume 4: Controversies, Applications, and Nonhuman Primate Extensions, pp. 401 - 425 (Ed. Shackelford, T. K.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2022)