An Illustrated Guide to Bornean Orangutan Food Plants

Orangutans can persist in mixed oil palm and forest landscapes, with females refuging in forest patches and males moving periodically between the patches through the oil palms. Large oil palm estates and concessions situated within the natural distribution of orangutans can play a role in permanently sustaining these populations, firstly by allowing orangutans to live within plantations and, secondly, by retaining and growing food plants most favoured by orangutans on the set-aside areas. But which plants are the most favoured, and how to recognise them? This guide outlines more than 100 kinds of native Bornean plant types whose fruits, leaves or bark are commonly eaten by wild orangutans. One third are of the remarkable ‘keystone’ genus, Ficus, which provides the single most important food source for orangutans in most areas where the species has been studied. The guide is illustrated with over 90 photos.

Author(s): John Payne & Zainal Zahari Zainuddin
Language(s): WWF-Malaysia
Format: Softcover
Publisher: WWF-Malaysia
ISBN: 9789670237770
Weight: 440g