For 12 years, primatologist Nadine Ruppert and her colleagues have had one recurring task on their calendar: tagging along with a group of southern pig-tailed macaques in Segari, Peninsular Malaysia, as these primates hop between native rainforests and the neighboring oil palm plantations. Over the years, the researchers successfully habituated the group: they named every […]
GEORGE TOWN: Wild animals are venturing out from their natural habitat due to changes in the ecosystem and the ecological balance in nature caused by deforestation, says wildlife expert Dr Nadine Ruppert.
Frequent visits to oil palm plantations are leading to a sharp increase in mortality rates among infant southern pig-tailed macaques <i>(Macaca nemestrina)</i> in the wild, according to a new study.
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