ANNE RUSSON PUBLICATIONS
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Articles in refereed journals
Russon, A. E., Andrews, K., & Huss, B. (2007). Innovation and the grain problem. Commentary on Ramsey, G., Bastian, M. L., and van Schaik, C. P., Animal innovation defined and operationalized. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 422-423.
Russon, A. E. (2006). Acquisition of complex foraging skills in juvenile and adolescent orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus): Developmental pacing and shaping. Aquatic Mammals, 32(4), 500-510. pdf
Russon, A. E., Handayani, P., Kuncoro, P. & Ferisa, A. (2007). Orangutan leaf-carrying for nest building: Unravelling cultural processes. Animal Cognition, 10(2), 189-202. pdf
Russon, A. E. & Begun, D. R. (2002). Great ape communication: Cognitive and evolutionary approaches. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25(5), 638.
Russon, A.E. (2002). Return of the native: Cognition and site-specific expertise in orangutan rehabilitation. International Journal of Primatology, 23(3), 461-478. pdf
Russon, A. E. (2002). Introduction: Cognitive approaches to great ape conservation. International Journal of Primatology, 23(3), 459-460.
Russon, A.E., Erman, A. & Dennis, R. (2001). The population and distribution of orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus) in and around the Danau Sentarum Wildlife Reserve, W. Kalimantan, Indonesia. Biological Conservation, 97, 21-28. pdf
Russon, A.E., Meijaard, E., & Dennis, R. (2000). Declining orangutan populations in and around the Danau Sentarum National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Borneo Research Bulletin, 31, 372-384.
Russon, A. E. (1999). Naturalistic approaches to orangutan intelligence and the question of enculturation. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 12(4, 181-202.
Russon, A.E. (1998). The nature and evolution of orangutan intelligence. Primates, 39, 485-503. pdf
Byrne, R.W. & Russon, A.E. (1998). Learning by imitation: A hierarchical approach. Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 21, 667-721. pdf
Russon, A.E. & Galdikas, B.M.F. (1995). Constraints on great ape imitation: Model and action selectivity in rehabilitant orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 109(1), 5-17. pdf
Russon, A.E., Josefowitz, N. & Edmonds, C. (1994). Making computer instruction accessible: Familiar analogies for female novices. Computers in Human Behavior, 10(2), 175-187.
Russon, A.E. & Galdikas, B.M.F. (1994). Imitation in rehabilitant orangutans: Model and action selectivity. Current Primatology, Vol II, 363-370.
Russon, A.E. (1993). Sociality and mentality in nonhuman primates. Semiotic Review of Books, 4, 6-10.
Russon, A.E. & Galdikas, B.M.F. (1993). Imitation in free-ranging rehabilitant orangutans. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 107(2), 147-161. pdf
Russon, A.E. (1991). Deconstructing primatology. Semiotic Review of Books, 2, 9-11.
Russon, A.E. & Waite, B.E. (1991). Patterns of dominance and imitation in an infant peer group. Ethology and Sociobiology, 12(1), 55-73.
Russon, A.E., Waite, B.E. & Rochester, M.J. (1990). Direct caregiver intervention in infant peer social encounters. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 60(3), 423-439.
Moessinger, P., Barcelo, J., Russon, A.E. & Mathieu, M. (1979). Perception de la pluralite chez le chimpanze. Archives de Psychologie, 85-86.
Russon, A.E. & Blair, J.M. (1969). Rational function minimax approximations for the Bessel functions K (x) & K (x). Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. Publication AECL 3461, Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River, Ont., Oct. 1969.
Books
Russon, A. E. & Begun, D. R. (eds). (2004). The Evolution of Thought: Evolution of Great Ape Intelligence. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Russon, A.E. (2004). Orangutans: Wizards of the Rainforest, revised edition. Toronto: Key Porter Publications.
Russon, A.E. (2000). Orangutans: Wizards of the Rainforest. Toronto: Key Porter Publications.
Russon, A.E., Bard, K.A., & Parker, S.T. (eds.) (1996). Reaching into Thought: The Minds of the Great Apes. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Chapters in books
Russon AE, Wich SA, Ancrenaz M, Kanamori T, Knott CD, Kuze N, Morrogh-Bernard HC, Pratje P, Ramlee H, Rodman P, Sawang A, Sidiyasa, S, Singleton I & van Schaik CP. (2009). Geographic variation in orangutan diets. In SA Wich, SS Utami, T Mitra Setia & CP van Schaik (ed.). Orangutans: Geographic Variation in Behavioral Ecology and Conservation, pp. 135-156. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pdf
The complete orangutan food list (2007). pdf
Russon AE, van Schaik CP, Kuncoro P, Ferisa A, Handayani DP, van Noordwijk MA (2009). Innovation and intelligence in orangutans. In SA Wich, SS Utami, T Mitra Setia & CP van Schaik (ed.). Orangutans: Geographic Variation in Behavioral Ecology and Conservation, pp. 279-298. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pdf
Russon AE (2009). Orangutan rehabilitation and reintroduction. In SA Wich, SS Utami, T Mitra Setia & CP van Schaik (ed.). Orangutans: Geographic Variation in Behavioral Ecology and Conservation, pp. 327-350. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pdf
Russon, A. E. & Russell, C. L. (2005). Orangutan tourism. In J. Caldecott & L. Miles (ed.), World Atlas of the Great Apes and their Conservation, pp. 264-265. Berkeley, CA: Univ. California Press.
Box, H. O. & Russon, A. E. (2004). Social mediated learning among monkeys and apes: Some comparative perspectives. In L. J. Rogers & G. Kaplan (ed.), Comparative Vertebrate Cognition: Are Primates Superior to Non-Primates?, pp. 97-140. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
Russon, A. E. (2004). Evolutionary reconstructions of great ape intelligence. In A. E. Russon & D. R. Begun (ed.), The Evolution of Great Ape Intelligence, pp. 1-14. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pdf
Russon, A. E. (2004). Cognition in living great apes. In A. E. Russon & D. R. Begun (ed.), The Evolution of Great Ape Intelligence, pp. 29-30. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Russon, A. E. (2004). Great ape cognitive systems. In A. E. Russon & D. R. Begun (ed.), The Evolution of Great Ape Intelligence, pp. 76-100. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pdf
Russon, A. E. (2004). Modern great ape adaptation. In A. E. Russon & D. R. Begun (ed.), The Evolution of Great Ape Intelligence, pp. 101-103. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Russon, A. E. & Begun, D. R. (2004). The evolutionary origins of great ape intelligence. In A. E. Russon & D. R. Begun (ed.), The Evolution of Great Ape Intelligence, pp. 353-368. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pdf
Russon, A. E. (2003). Innovation and creativity in forest-living rehabilitant orangutans. In: Animal Innovation, ed. S. M. Reader & K. N. Laland, pp. 279-306. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Russon, A.E. (2003). Developmental perspectives on great ape traditions. In D. Fragaszy & S. Perry (eds.), Towards a Biology of Traditions: Models and Evidence, pp. 329-364. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Russon, A.E. (2003). Comparative developmental perspectives on culture: The great apes. In H. Keller, Y.H. Poortinga, & A. Schoelmerich (eds.), Between Culture and Biology: Perspectives on Ontogenetic Development, pp. 30-56. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Russon, A.E., Vasey, P., & Gauthier, C. (2002). Seeing with the mind’s eye: Eye-covering play in orangutans and Japanese macaques. In R.W. Mitchell (ed.), Pretending in Animals, Children, and Adult Humans, pp. 241-254. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Russon, A.E. (2002). Pretending in free-ranging rehabilitant orangutans. In R.W. Mitchell (ed.), Pretending in Animals, Children, and Adult Humans, pp. 229-240. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Russon, A. E. & Susilo, A. (1999). The effects of the 1997-98 droughts and fires on orangutans in Sungai Wain Protection Forest, E. Kalimantan, Indonesia. In H. Suhartoyo & T. Toma (eds.), Impacts of Fire and Human Activities on Forest Ecosystems in the Tropics: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Asian Tropical Forest Management, pp. 348-372. Samarinda, Indonesia: Tropical Forest Research Center, Mulawarman University and Japan International Cooperation Agency.
Russon, A.E. (1999). Orangutans' imitation of tool use: A cognitive interpretation. In Parker, S.T., Mitchell, R.W., & Miles, H. L., (eds.), Mentalities of Gorillas and Orangutans, pp. 119-145. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Russon, A.E., Mitchell, R.E., Lefebvre, L. & Abravanel, E. (1998). The evolution of imitation. In J. Langer & M. Killen (Eds.), Piaget, Evolution and Development, pp. 103-143. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Russon, A.E. (1997). Exploiting the knowledge of others. In R.W. Byrne & A. Whiten (Eds.), Machiavellian Intelligence, 2nd ed, pp. 174-206. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Russon, A.E. (1996). Imitation in everyday use: the nature of spontaneous imitation in free-ranging rehabilitant orangutans. In Russon, A.E., Bard, K.A. & Parker, S.T. (Eds.). Reaching into Thought: The Minds of the Great Apes. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Russon, A.E. & Bard, K.A. (1996) Exploring the minds of the great apes: Issues and Controversies. In Russon, A.E., Bard, K.A. & Parker, S.T. (Eds.). Reaching into Thought: The Minds of the Great Apes. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Parker, S.T. & Russon, A.E. (1996). On the wild side of culture and cognition in the great apes. In Russon, A.E., Bard, K.A. & Parker, S.T. (Eds.). Reaching into Thought: The Minds of the Great Apes. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Russon, A.E. & Galdikas, B.M.F. (1995). Imitation and tool use in rehabilitant orangutans. In R.D. Nadler, B. Galdikas, L. Sheehan, & N. Rosen (Eds.), The Neglected Ape, pp. 191-197. New York: Plenum.
Russon, A.E. & Galdikas, B.M.F. (1995). Imitation and tool use in rehabilitant orangutans. Proceedings of the International Conference on Orangutans. Fullerton, CA, 2004.
Russon, A.E. (1990). The development of peer social interaction in infant chimpanzees: Comparative, cognitive and brain analyses. In S. Parker & K. Gibson, (Eds.), Language and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes (pp. 379-419). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge U. Press, l990.
Book Reviews
Russon, A.E. & Adams, L.C. (2007). Review of T. Matsuzawa, M. Tomonaga & M. Tanaka (ed), Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 135, 366-370.
Russon, A.E. (2005). Review of Among Orangutans by C. P. van Schaik and The Red Ape, revised edition, by J. Schwartz. International Journal of Primatology. In press.
Russon, A.E. (2000). Review of Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters by Jane Goodall (edited by Dale Peterson). The Toronto Globe and Mail, April 8.
Russon, A.E. (2000). Review of Origins of Intelligence: The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans by S. T. Parker & M. McKinney. Quarterly Review of Biology, 75(3), 306-307.
Russon, A.E. (1998). Seeing ourselves as others see us. Review of The Follow by L. Spalding. The Gazette, York University.
Russon, A.E. (1997). Review of Theories of Theories of Mind by P. Carruthers & P.J. Smith (eds.). International Journal of Primatology, 18(5), 41-43.
Russon, A.E. (1997). When thought evolved. Review of The Thinking Ape by R.W. Byrne. Contemporary Psychology.
Russon, A.E. (1995). Orangutans of Borneo by G. Kaplan & L. Rogers (Univ. of New England Press, 1994). Primate-Talk Electronic Bulletin Board, Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin, April 25, 1995.
Other publications
Russon, A. E. (2007). What orangutan rehabilitation can contribute to conservation. Proceedings of the Orangutan SSP Husbandry Workshop, Brookfield Zoo, Chicago, Oct. 16-18.
Russon, A. E. (2007). Guidelines for Great Ape Re-Introduction, ed. Beck et al. Photographs (cover, inner). An occasional paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission No. 35, Gland, Switzerland.
Russell, C. L. & Russon, A. E. (in press, 2006). Ecotourism. In M. Bekoff (ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal-Human Interaction. Greenwood Publishing: New York.
Russon, A. E. (2006). Wizards of the rainforest: Their ticket is valid. (text and photos). Muse, 10(1), 36-43.
Russon, A. E. (2004). Culture in our relatives, the orangutans. In M. Bekoff (ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Vol.1, pp. 458-459. Westport CN: Greenwood Press.
Russon, A. E. (2004). History of views on great apes from Ancient Greece to the present. In M. Bekoff (ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Vol. 2, pp. 633-641. Westport CN: Greenwood Press.
Orangutan Reintroduction Project (2003). Orangutan food repertoire: Meratus Protection Forest, E. Kalimantan, 1999-2002. (coauthor). For the Wanariset Orangutan Reintroduction Project and the Indonesian Department of Forestry, Aug., 2002.
Rosen, N., Russon, A. & Byers, O. (2001). Orangutan Reintroduction and Protection Workshop: Final Report. IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group. Apple Valley, MN.
Russon, A.E. (2001). Rehabilitating orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus): Behavioral competence. Laboratory Primate Newsletter, 40(4), 8-9.
Russon, A.E. (2001). Unlocking the forest (article and photographs). Living Planet Magazine, 3. 22-31.
Russon, A.E. et al. (2000). Orangutan food repertoire: Sungai Wain Protection Forest, E. Kalimantan, 1994-2000. Developed for the Wanariset Orangutan Reintroduction Project and the Indonesian Department of Forestry and Estate Crops, Aug., 2000.
Russon, A.E. (1999). Orangutan intelligence. PBS web page, www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/orangutans
Yeager, C. & Russon, A.E. (1998). Trial by Fire. International Primatological Society Newsletter, Nov.
Russon, A.E. (1996). Report on Readaptation to Forest Life by Orangutans in Release Group VI. Report to the Wanariset Orangutan Reintroduction Project.
Russon, A.E. & Erman, A. (1996). A nest count survey of the orangutan population in and around the Danau Sentarum Wildlife Reserve, W. Kalimantan, Indonesia. Report to the Indonesian Dept. of Forestry’s Agency for Nature Protection and Conservation (PHPA/KSDA) and Wetlands International-Indonesia, Pontianak, W. Kalimantan, Indonesia.
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