Abstract
Despite several recent orang-utan (Pongo pygmaeus) field studies in Borneo and Sumatra, tool-use has never been reported among wild orang-utan populations in contexts other than agonistic displays or nesting/covering behaviors. During a continuous 9-year study at Tanjung Puting Reserve, Central Indonesian Borneo, only one instance of wild orang-utan tool-use outside these two contexts was observed: an adult male orang-utan broke off a dead branch and used it to scratch his rear for half a minute.
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