Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/srep21848, published online 22 February 2016

This Article contains an error. Among the studied species, the orangutan was erroneously specified as Bornean orangutan Pongo pygmaeus. In fact, the studied individual was a Sumatran orangutan Pongo abelii.

In the Results section,

“The same held true for the hominid orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) retina (Fig. 2 middle).”

should read:

“The same held true for the hominid orangutan (Pongo abelii) retina (Fig. 2 middle).”

The error is also present in Figure 1, the correct Figure 1 is given below.

Figure 1
figure 1

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Finally, the error is present in Table S1, where

“Bornean orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus

should read:

“Sumatran orangutan, Pongo abelii

This error does not alter the conclusions of the paper.