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Human interactions threaten endangered lion-tailed macaque
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Human interactions threaten endangered lion-tailed macaque

The Hindu  

Human-wildlife interaction, especially non-human primates, is a growing concern in areas where roads and plantations continue to encroach on natural habitats. A recent study warns of a growing threat to the critically endangered lion-tailed macaque, endemic to the Western Ghats of India due to increasing human interaction. The study published in the journal ‘Primate Conservation’ reveal that increased food provisioning …

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Launceston Mayor to inform city-sister Ikeda that City Park macaque monkeys will be sterilised
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Launceston Mayor to inform city-sister Ikeda that City Park macaque monkeys will be sterilised

ABC  

Tim Walker I'd like to think at that stage they're not on public display Leon. Tim Walker Your decision is only as good as the information you have and I think that there's probably more information that could be shared from Council in regards to the other difficulties around in breeding and some of the consequences of that so it's …

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Efforts on to put nagging macaques under control
1 month, 1 week ago

Efforts on to put nagging macaques under control

China Daily  

A troop of macaques has been caught on camera raiding a village in southern China recently, sparking concerns about the balance between wildlife conservation and human-wildlife coexistence. "I've seen dozens of them at once, old ones leading the younger ones," said a villager surnamed Zhao, who has witnessed the macaque invasion firsthand. However, Nong Xiaoyue, deputy director of the Daxin …

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Efforts on to put nagging macaques under control
1 month, 1 week ago

Efforts on to put nagging macaques under control

China Daily  

A troop of macaques has been caught on camera raiding a village in southern China recently, sparking concerns about the balance between wildlife conservation and human-wildlife coexistence. "I've seen dozens of them at once, old ones leading the younger ones," said a villager surnamed Zhao, who has witnessed the macaque invasion firsthand. However, Nong Xiaoyue, deputy director of the Daxin …

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Monkeys that escaped a lab are a species used for human research since the 1800s
2 months ago

Monkeys that escaped a lab are a species used for human research since the 1800s

Associated Press  

The 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the planet. “Every large research university in the United States probably has some rhesus macaques hidden somewhere in the basement of its medical school,” according to the 2007 book, “Macachiavellian Intelligence: How Rhesus Macaques and Humans Have Conquered the …

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Chinese scientists unveil neural mechanisms of sequence sorting in macaque monkeys' brain
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Chinese scientists unveil neural mechanisms of sequence sorting in macaque monkeys' brain

China Daily  

SHANGHAI -- After a person memorizes a series of numbers, the numbers can be repeated in the correct order or in reverse. To figure out the neural mechanisms of sequence sorting in working memory, Chinese scientists trained two macaque monkeys to perform a visuospatial delayed sequence-sorting task and conducted high-throughput electrophysiological recordings in the frontal cortex of the monkeys. Images …

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Chinese scientists unveil neural mechanisms of sequence sorting in macaque monkeys' brain
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Chinese scientists unveil neural mechanisms of sequence sorting in macaque monkeys' brain

China Daily  

SHANGHAI -- After a person memorizes a series of numbers, the numbers can be repeated in the correct order or in reverse. To figure out the neural mechanisms of sequence sorting in working memory, Chinese scientists trained two macaque monkeys to perform a visuospatial delayed sequence-sorting task and conducted high-throughput electrophysiological recordings in the frontal cortex of the monkeys. Images …

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Erode couple arrested for possessing baby bonnet macaque in Coimbatore
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Erode couple arrested for possessing baby bonnet macaque in Coimbatore

The Hindu  

The Forest Department on August 18, 2024 arrested a couple on charges of possessing a baby bonnet macaque, aged around three months, in Coimbatore. V. Balakrishnan, who works as an inspector for the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, spotted the couple with a baby monkey near Park Gate junction on Dr. Nanjappa Road in Coimbatore on Sunday. They …

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730 Lion-tailed Macaque in Sharavathi Valley LTM Sanctuary: Report
7 months ago

730 Lion-tailed Macaque in Sharavathi Valley LTM Sanctuary: Report

The Hindu  

A report on the status of diurnal arboreal mammals in and around the forest of Sharavathi Valley Lion-tailed Macaque Sanctuary which has been submitted to the Karnataka Forest Department recently has revealed that there are 730 LTM in vicinity. The estimated number of groups was 41 and the estimated minimum population size was 730 for the entire Sharavathi Valley LTM …

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Scientists draw map of macaque brain networks
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Scientists draw map of macaque brain networks

China Daily  

A Chinese research team has drawn a network map of a macaque brain that will help explain the macroscopic organizational patterns of the human brain. The map, created by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Automation, divided the macaque brain into 304 distinct regions and quantitatively depicted the anatomical and functional connectivity patterns of each region. As …

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Chinese scientists map macaque brain networks
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Chinese scientists map macaque brain networks

China Daily  

BEIJING -- A Chinese research team has successfully drawn a novel network map of a macaque brain that will help explain the macroscopic organizational patterns of the human brain. The map, created by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Automation, divided the macaque brain into 304 distinct regions and quantitatively depicted the anatomical and functional connectivity patterns …

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Scientists create monkey chimera using stem cells method for the first time
1 year, 2 months ago

Scientists create monkey chimera using stem cells method for the first time

ABC  

A monkey born in China with green fluorescence in its brain and eyes was the first live-born "chimera" of its kind. Key points: Scientists in China say they created a monkey chimera using stem cells injected into an embryo Chimeras are organisms that contain cells from two or more individuals Researchers hope the breakthrough will aid medical research into things …

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74 Monkey Carcasses Found in Siddipet, Killings by Electrocution, Poisoning Suspected
1 year, 3 months ago

74 Monkey Carcasses Found in Siddipet, Killings by Electrocution, Poisoning Suspected

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Seventy-four carcasses of rhesus macaque monkeys were found in Mugadapa village of Siddipet on Saturday, in a suspected case of deliberate killings through electrocution and food poisoning, officials said. K. Kiran Kumar, Gajwel forest range officer, told Deccan Chronicle, “Rhesus macaque are commonly found all over the southern states. Those found guilty will not be spared.” The killings were …

Massive infrastructure project proposed by Central government threatens Great Nicobar Island
2 years, 2 months ago

Massive infrastructure project proposed by Central government threatens Great Nicobar Island

The Hindu  

Published : Oct 20, 2022 10:20 IST At the southernmost extent of India, off the eastern coast, Great Nicobar Island is a tropical oasis in the Andaman Sea. Protected status stripped Last year, large swathes of land and coastal area, including portions of the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve and Galathea Bay, were stripped of their protected status to make way …

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Japanese police turn tranquiliser guns on monkeys after spate of attacks
2 years, 5 months ago

Japanese police turn tranquiliser guns on monkeys after spate of attacks

The Independent  

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Monarch butterfly and long-tailed macaque added to endangered list
2 years, 5 months ago

Monarch butterfly and long-tailed macaque added to endangered list

The Independent  

The long-tailed macaque and the monarch butterfly are among species classed as endangered for the first time, as Earth’s biodiversity declines accelerate. Long-tailed macaques are caught to be killed or sold for research, food or as pets The 41,459 species in danger of being wiped out includes trees, conifers, reef corals and reptiles. “Legal and illegal logging and deforestation to …

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New Arunachal monkey named after Sela pass
2 years, 7 months ago

New Arunachal monkey named after Sela pass

The Hindu  

A new species of old world monkey recorded from Arunachal Pradesh has been named after a strategic mountain pass at 13,700 ft above sea level. “We found the new macaque species in western and central Arunachal Pradesh while exploring the Arunachal macaque’s wild population for genetic insights. Major cause for crop loss The study describes the Sela macaque as genetically …

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Shrinking tree cover and increasing tourist arrivals create an existential crisis for the lion-tailed macaque and other denizens of the forest in Valparai
4 years ago

Shrinking tree cover and increasing tourist arrivals create an existential crisis for the lion-tailed macaque and other denizens of the forest in Valparai

The Hindu  

The setting sun sends slanting shafts of smoky beams to stroke the tops of neatly cropped tea bushes, strobe-lighting the dance of the dust mites. This is daily drama in Valparai where elephants, lion-tailed macaques, bisons, bonnet macaques, Nilgiri tahr and other creatures of the jungle are forced to share their shrinking turf with ever expanding tea estates and the …

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Habitat loss puts lion-tailed macaque in IUCN endangered list for the sixth time
4 years, 3 months ago

Habitat loss puts lion-tailed macaque in IUCN endangered list for the sixth time

The Hindu  

Lion-tailed macaque, a primate endemic to small and severely fragmented rainforests of the Western Ghats in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, continues to be in the ‘endangered’ category in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The latest conservation status of the primate was updated in the IUCN database recently based on technical reports over the years from a group …

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Researchers have found that human and monkeys have similar thought patterns
4 years, 6 months ago

Researchers have found that human and monkeys have similar thought patterns

Firstpost  

The indigenous Tsimane’ people in Amazon rainforest, American adults and preschoolers and macaque monkeys all have a flair for recursive skills. It divulged that indigenous Tsimane’ people in Bolivia’s Amazon rainforest, American adults and preschoolers and macaque monkeys have one thing in common. “For the first time, we have strong empirical evidence about patterns of thinking that come naturally to …

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Different strategies needed to conserve lion-tailed, bonnet macaques, says study
4 years, 11 months ago

Different strategies needed to conserve lion-tailed, bonnet macaques, says study

The Hindu  

A recent review article makes the point that very different approaches are needed to protect animals that are essentially forest-dwellers and those that are habitat generalists and often share their habitats and resources with people. Analysis of earlier studies on the Anamalai Tiger Reserve area, which is an important distributional range of the lion-tailed macaque shows that fragmentation of forests …

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