Bat and bird poo can tell you a lot about ancient landscapes in Southeast Asia
- Written by Christopher Wurster, Senior Research Associate of Stable Isotope Geochemistry, James Cook University
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The islands of Sumatra, Borneo and Java were once part of a much larger landmass connected to Asia called Sundaland.
But there are some species that are unique to each island today – such as the two species of orangutan – so in research, published today in Scientific Reports, we looked at what could have kept them apart.
And that...
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