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Open access, freely available online PLoS BIOLOGY Aerial Surveys Give New Estimates for Orangutans in Sabah, Malaysia 1* 2,3 4 1 4 ˆ 5 Marc Ancrenaz , Olivier Gimenez , Laurentius Ambu , Karine Ancrenaz , Patrick Andau , Benoıt Goossens , John Payne6 1 4 1,7 , Azri Sawang , Augustine Tuuga , Isabelle Lackman-Ancrenaz ´ ´ 1 Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Project, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia, 2 CEFE/CNRS, equipe Biometrie et Biologie des populations, Montpellier, France, 3 Institut de ´ ´ ´ ´ ´ l’Ingenierie de l’Information de Sante, equipe TIMB, Faculte de Medecine, La Tronche Cedex, France, 4 Sabah Wildlife Department, Wisma Muis, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, 5 Biodiversity and Ecological Processes Group, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cathays Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom, 6 World Wildlife Fund- Malaysia, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, 7 Pittsburgh Zoo, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America Great apes are threatened with extinction, but precise information about the distribution and size of most populations is currently lacking. We conducted orangutan nest counts in the Malaysian state of Sabah (North Borneo), using a combination of ground and helicopter surveys, and provided a way to estimate the current distribution and size of the populations living throughout the entire state. We show that the number of nests detected during aerial surveys is directly re