Monkeys on the Edge: Ecology and Management of Long-Tailed Macaques and their Interface with Humans

by Edited by Michael D. Gumert , Agustín Fuentes , Lisa Jones-Engel

• ISBN13: 9780521764339
• ISBN10: 0521764335
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) have a wide geographical distribution and extensively overlap with human societies across southeast Asia, regularly utilizing the edges of secondary forest and inhabiting numerous anthropogenic environments, including temple grounds, cities and farmlands. Yet despite their apparent ubiquity across the region, there are striking gaps in our understanding of long-tailed macaque population ecology. This timely volume, a key resource for primatologists, anthropologists and conservationists, underlines the urgent need for comprehensive population studies on common macaques. Providing the first detailed look at research on this underexplored species, it unveils what is currently known about the population of M. fascicularis, explores the contexts and consequences of human-macaque sympatry and discusses the innovative programs being initiated to resolve human-macaque conflict across Asia. Spread throughout the book are boxed case studies that supplement the chapters and give a valuable insight into specific field studies on wild M. fascicularis populations.

Author Biography

Michael D. Gumert is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Psychology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he leads a field program investigating the behavioral biology and ecology of Macaca fascicularis in Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand. Recent research has focused on practical issues facing long-tailed macaque populations, and he has organized international experts in a cooperative group to better understand the conservation and management needs of long-tailed macaques. Augustn Fuentes is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for Schollarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame. His current research projects include assessing behavior, ecology, and pathogen transmission in human-monkey interactions in Southeast Asia and Gibraltar and examining the roles of cooperation, social negotiation, and niche construction in primate and human evolution. Lisa Jones-Engel is a Senior Research Scientist at the Washington National Primate Research Center, University of Washington. Her current research focuses on cross-species infectious agent transmission and she coordinates several multidisciplinary research projects in Asia, which focus on the role synanthropic macaques play in disease transmission.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. viii
Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
The status and distribution of long-tailed macaques	p. 1
The common monkey of Southeast Asia: Long-tailed macaque populations, ethnophoresy, and their occurrence in human environments	p. 3
The long-tailed macaques of Karimunjawa (Macaca fascicularis karimondjiwae): A small and isolated island subspecies threatened by human-macaque conflict	p. 12
Trade in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis)	p. 20
Distribution and current status of long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea) in Myanmar	p. 45
Preliminary survey of the long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) on Java, Indonesia: Distribution and human-primate conflict	p. 65
Distribution and present status of long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in Laos and their ecological relationship with rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)	p. 72
A possible decline in populations of the long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) in northeastern Cambodia	p. 83
The human-macaque interface	p. 99
Campus monkeys of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia: Nuisance problems and students' perceptions	p. 101
Human impact on long-tailed macaques in Thailand	p. 118
Macaque behavior at the human-monkey interface: The activity and demography of semi-free-ranging Macaca fascicularis at Padangtegal, Bali, Indonesia	p. 159
Box 6.1	p. 180
The role of Macaca fascicularis in infectious agent transmission	p. 183
Ethnophoresy of long-tailed macaques	p. 205
Macaca fascicularis in Mauritius: Implications for macaque-human interactions and for future research on long-tailed macaques	p. 207
The support of conservation programs through the biomedical usage of long-tailed macaques in Mauritius	p. 236
Ethnophoresy: The exotic macaques on Ngeaur Island, Republic of Palau	p. 252
Comparisons with rhesus macaques	p. 273
India's rhesus populations: Protectionism versus conservation management	p. 275
Box 11.1	p. 283
Understanding and managing the human-macaque interface	p. 293
Developing sustainable human-macaque communities	p. 295
Box 12.1	p. 297
Box 12.2	p. 307
Future directions for research and conservation of long-tailed macaque populations	p. 328
Index	p. 354
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