User talk:PongoGuy

Orangutang research
Hi! You added text to Great ape language about your own orangutan research. According to the rules of Wikipedia it should be removed as it is Original Research. Even if it is true it does not qualify unless it can be verified with reliable sources. I thought about removing it straight away, but I thought you might have some articles published in a peer reviewed journal or so, which you could reference in the article. Regards Mlewan 07:37, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, there is peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed publications though my Master's thesois work (cited in the Aazk piece) was never published. However, refer to:

1982 - Shapiro, G., Sign acquisition in a homereared/ free-ranging orangutans: Comparisons with other signing apes. American Journal of Primatology,3: 121-129.

1985 - Shapiro, G., Factors Influencing Sign Learning Performance in Four Juvenile Orangutans Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oklahoma, Dept. of Zoology. University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, MI. http://www.orangutanrepublik.org/GLSDissertation.pdf.

1994 - Shapiro, G. and B.M.F. Galdikas, Visual Attentiveness of Orangutans within the Sign Learning Context. in Proceedings of the International Conference on "Orangutans: the Neglected Ape." ed. J. Ogden, L. Perkins, and L. Sheeran, California State University, Fullerton, Zoological Society of San Diego.

1999 - Shapiro, G. & B. Galdikas, Sign Learning by an Adult, Free-ranging Orangutan, in The Mentalities of Gorillas and Orangutans, edited by S. Parker, G.Mitchell and L. Miles, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.