News Archive July 2018

Olivia Wassmer spent several months to observed bands of unflanged Sumatran orangutans moved around in North Sumatera.  She conducted the observation of this critically endangered species as part of her research to understand their dispersal pattern. In biological sciences, dispersal is defined as both the movement from a birth site to a breeding site and from one breeding site to another. Related to…

Tom Roth, a master of science student in Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, came to the Department of Biology to broaden the knowledge of the Department students in the field of animal biosciences. In the guest lecture event held at Reading Room (Ruang Baca) of the Department of Biology (June 25, 2018), he explained the aggregation behavior of Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) living in the low-productive forest. He…