Orangutans

Roads through Rainforest Threaten our Cultured Cousins -- my press release on the article "Orangutan Cultures and the Evolution of Material Culture" published in ScienceJan. 3, 2003 and a campaign to halt roadbuilding in prime orangutan habitat, plus links to other news articles. Illegal Logging in Gunung Leuser Reports on illegal logging activities at Suaq Bailimbing Reserch Station, Sumatra, Indonesia. Download 2MB video of an orangutan at Suaq Balimbing using a feeding tool. Audio from wild orangutans and their habitat also available for download. The Orangutan Network This site includes a discussion forum and detailed information about research sites, plus info and results from the Orangutans Compared workshop. Thanks Gwen! Here's my AnthroQuest article about it, or my expanded version with links. Orangutan Foundation International Orang utan Think Tank Project at the National Zoo Welcome to Balikpapan Orangutan Society - U.S.A - Save the Orangutans!

Discovery Online -- Orangutans GrungyApe, Ink. - Orangutan and Primate Information Center! The Nature Conservancy Discovers Large Population of Orangutans in Borneo (see also NPR Radio Expidition) ABCNEWS.com : Economics Threaten Orangutans A list of Articles on Orangutan Behavior and Ecology

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African Apes: Bonobos, Chimpanzees and Gorillas

• African Ape Study Sites

Photos of bonobos at Lomako, Zaire taken by Frances J. White. BPF - Bonobo Protection Fund Bonobos: WWF fact sheet  William Calvin's Bonobo Info PYGMY CHIMPS AT BONOBO ROAD (San Diego Zoo)

Bonobo Sex and Society by Frans B.M. de Waal, Scientific American, March 1995 The Bonobo Initiative -- somebody finally realized that we need to support peace and stability in Congo if we hope to save the bonobos. Language Research Center where work has been done using artifical language instruction and computers with bonobos, chimpanzees and orangutans. I worked here a few weeks during summer 1995.

Pan Africa News The Newsletter of The Japan Committee for the Conservation and Care of Chimpanzees and The Mahale Wildlife Conservation Society Chimpanzee Cultures based on a paper in Nature by A. Whiten et al. about cultural variation in the chimpanzee.   Mountain Gorilla and Rainforest Direct Aid Includes Gorilla Journal with info on both mountain and lowland gorillas. Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund - Gorilla Habitat Study

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Other Non-Human Primates

• Duke University Primate Center See the lemurs! Frink!
• Primate Info Net A general resource for primate information.
• African Primates
• International Primatological Society
• Primates Online The Primate Conservation & Welfare Society
• International Primate Protection League
• Wild Primate Populations in Emerging Infectious Disease Research:� The Missing Link? This has important implications for conserving primate habitats and stopping the bushmeat trade.

Biological Anthropology

• Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University
• Human Evolution Multimedia
• Biological Anthropology and Anatomy 093 The webpage I developed for the Introduction to Biological Anthropology Course at Duke University. (Apparently no one else is interested in updating it -- it still has the grades from when I taught in Summer '98. Oh well, I tried.)
• American Association of Physical Anthropology

• L.S.B. Leakey Foundation This exceptional site includes information about current research projects, news items on research related to human origins, and a wonderful visual glossary of relevant terms. (And I'm not just saying that because they gave me some funding for my project).

• Human Origins and Evolution Homebase
• Dept of Anth: Skull Module A terrific example of the use of the web to facilitate teaching and learning by the folks at Cal State Chico!
• Touma� Info on the Chad discovery from French National Center for Scientific Research on possible earliest hominid find.
• Fossil Hominids Discussions about hominid fossil record in the Talk.Origins Archive.
• Becoming Human Paleoanthropology news and a Flash-driven "documentary," from the Institute for Human Origins. Fancy fun for broadband geeks.
• paleoanthropology.org Searchable portal of anthropology resources.

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CONTACT

• CONTACT HomePage Information about an amazing annual interdisciplinary conference, where astronomers, anthropologists, science fiction writers and others discuss the possibilities, implications, complications and wonder surrounding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
• Contact Consortium HomePage
• EPONA "Epona is an imaginary world. You're familiar with the concept. Science fiction and world modeling are two faces of a coin. But Epona is different from the rest: Epona is consistent and complete. Why don't they all look like this?" -- Larry Niven
• Active Worlds A virtual reality playground.
• Brian Bilbrey's summary of events at Contact 2002
• Allen Tough's online Welcome to ET (yes, I'm listed in the who we are section)

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Zoology and Evolutionary Biology

• NetVet/The Electronic Zoo
• UCMP Web Lift to Taxa
• National Center for Science Education Working on the front lines "to keep evolution in the science classroom and 'scientific creationism' out."
• Mendel's Paper  The first study of genetics.
• Talk.Origins Archive Archives from lively newsgroup debates on evolution, cosmology and the like.
• William H. Calvin An interesting collection of information from a neurophysiologist at U. Washington.
• The Temple of Alife A fantastically interactive page where you can get hands-on experiences in virtual evolution. Cool toys for bio-nerds. Beware: "MORPHS" is highly addictive.
• Biota The digital biology project - more artificial life, plus conferences with a paleo slant.
• The Dog Genome Project: Principles and Goals

• DINOSAUR EVOLUTION FISH : THE COELACANTH I remember writing a paper about these things in fifth or sixth grade. Neato!

   

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Indonesia

• The Jakarta Post Daily English-language newspaper.

• Indonesian Observer

• The Ultimate Indonesian Homepage
• Indonesia - Consular Information Sheet
• Lonely Planet - Destination Indonesia
• Maps of Indonesia by Peter Loud
• Inside Biodiversity - Indonesia
• Institute Science of Indonesia
• A s i a n N e t - Indonesia On-Line
• Travel Information for Indonesia

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Congo (Zaire)

• Lomako Forest Pygmy Chimpanzee Project  A collection of my notes for preparing to go to Zaire for field research in 1996. Of course, it's all different now, I'd expect, but it does give you some idea of how to deal with worst-case-scenario travel. For more about travel in the area, see Francis Hannaway's site. He got through the airport more successfully than my companion and I did. He went to some of the same places and saw some of the same people we did.
• AFRICA NEWS on the World Wide Web

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Last modified 06-Jan-2009