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A PABTY of scientific workers from Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities has set out with the intention of making a survey of the birds and mammals of Siam, Borneo and Sumatra (Science Service, Washington, D.C.). The results should be of special significance, for the programme includes study of the social life of some of the most interesting of the higher monkeys. In the jungles of Siam, the habits of the gibbons will be observed for three or four months by Dr. Carpenter ; other members of the expedition will carry out parallel observations in British North Borneo on orang-utans, gibbons and proboscis monkeys ; while, later, in the mountains of northern Sumatra, orang-utans will be studied in the national park recently set aside by the Netherlands Government to protect this rapidly disappearing animal. It is expected that the study of the social habits of these creatures may throw light upon the problems of man's social and physical evolution.
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U.S. Zoological Expedition to Far East. Nature 140, 356 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140356a0
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