| meat-eating by a wild bornean orang-utan (pongo pygmaeus). | we present the first evidence for consumption of meat by a wild bornean orang-utan (pongo pygmaeus). meat-eating has been reported in sumatran orang-utans, specifically the hunting and consumption of slow lorises (nycticebus coucang), but loris-hunting behaviour has not been observed in the bornean species and meat of any species is essentially absent from their diet, with only two anecdotal reports of vertebrate meat consumption prior to this current finding in over 40 years of study. in august ... | 2015 | 26298471 |