Effects of food provisioning on the behaviour of commensal Hamadryas Baboons,<i>Papio hamadryas</i>, at Al Hada Mountain in Western Saudi Arabia

Kamal, K.; Boug, Ahmed; Brain, Paul F.

doi:10.1080/09397140.1997.10637699

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“…Since provisioned food is usually more spatially clumped, more predictable and detectable, provisioned monkeys do not have to invest in searching effort, and extra time might be spent as "reserve" time [Dunbar, 1991;Kamal et al, 1997]. However, a cost related to food provisioning is the increased amount of intragroup competition [Kamal et al, 1997;Hill, 1999;Sinha et al, 2005;Hsu et al, 2009].…”

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Effect of Provisioning on the Temporal Variation in the Activity Budget of Urban Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in West Sumatra, Indonesia

Ilham

Rizaldi

Nurdin

et al. 2018

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We studied the behavioral ecology of provisioned long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, to examine how temporal changes in food provisioning within a day affect macaque activity. We conducted a field survey from October 2015 to January 2016 at two different sites: Gunung Meru (GM) and Gunung Padang (GP), where macaques receive high and low provisioning, respectively. The time budgets of macaques significantly differed between study groups. At GM, macaques spent more time resting, feeding, acting out agonistic behaviors, and less time moving and searching for food, than the macaques at GP. Diurnal activity patterns significantly changed within a day. The short-term change in activity of the macaques was closely related to the number of tourists: they spent a greater time feeding and searching when more tourists came to feed the monkeys, while time for grooming decreased. Our result showed that the ability of the macaques to adjust their activity in response to the number of tourists (that is, provisioning patterns) indicated their behavioral flexibility. Our result may aid the management strategies to reduce human-macaque conflicts, which has become a major problem in Padang.

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“…One of the likely reasons is their larger group size [Kamal et al, 1997;Ram et al, 2003;Brotcorne, 2009]. A second reason is the amount and clumped distribution of provisioned foods [Hill, 1999;Jaman and Huffman, 2013].…”

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Effect of Provisioning on the Temporal Variation in the Activity Budget of Urban Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in West Sumatra, Indonesia

Ilham

Rizaldi

Nurdin

et al. 2018

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“…Active participation reaches its most extreme forms when hand-feeding of otherwise wild animals is conducted as a promotional or commercial exercise (e.g. with tigers, Komodo dragons, squirrels, baboons and macaques) (Huestis 1951a,b, Robinson & Cowan 1954, McDougal 1980, Manski et al 1981, Manski 1982, Aggimarangsee 1993, Kamal et al 1997, Walpole 2001.…”

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“…These include health problems in animals caused by the food given and variations in species behavior, such as changes in spatial distribution (Huestis 1951a,b), becoming used to the presence of humans (Robinson & Cowan 1954), alterations in the social structure of animal communities (Manski et al 1981, Manski 1982 and increases in risk for humans due to potential attacks by the animals (Aggimarangsee 1993, Kamal et al 1997).…”

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Recreational fish feeding affects coastal fish behavior and increases frequency of predation on damselfish Chromis chromis nests

Milazzo¹,

Anastasi²,

Willis³

2006

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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Wildlife feeding has become an integral part of the range of activities offered to protected area visitors. In marine protected areas (MPAs), fish feeding may cause changes in the behavior, and thus the density and distribution, of coastal fish species. We evaluated spatial variability in human-positive fish behavior around the Ustica Island MPA (Italy) and the potential indirect effects of behavioral change on other species. Two mensurative experiments demonstrated that ca. 1/3 of the species present in fish-feeding areas exhibited human-positive behavior, losing instinctive fear in the presence of humans and encircling people in the water even when food was not provided. A manipulative experiment demonstrated that this behavioral response was learned rapidly. Damselfishes were negatively affected by the unnatural aggregation of a labrid species, as these aggregations frequently attacked and destroyed the benthic nests of the damselfish. Thus, fish feeding can have both direct and indirect effects. Therefore the MPA management goals need to be explicitly stated on a case-by-case basis. If the aim of a reserve is only to promote awareness of marine life and the benefits of conservation to the public, activities such as fish feeding may be regarded as desirable, since the human-positive behavior brought about by this activity guarantees a visual spectacle for visitors. Fish-feeding locations, however, cannot be regarded as natural and may reduce the effectiveness of a reserve for scientific research.

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“…The feeding time of rhesus macaques ( M. mulatta ) in a rural group was longer than that in an urban group in response to the availability of food resources [Jaman and Huffman, 2013]. Artificial foods provided by humans changed the behaviour of hamadryas baboons ( Papio hamadryas ) [Kamal et al, 1997]. Savannah baboons ( P. cynocephalus ) in a semi-provisioned group (SPG) spent less time feeding than wild groups did [Altmann and Muruthi, 1988].…”

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Diet and Activity of Macaca assamensis in Wild and Semi-Provisioned Groups in Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park, Nepal

Koirala

Chalise²,

Katuwal³

et al. 2017

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Studying the behavioural flexibility and adaptability of macaques to different habitats is one approach to designing a conservation plan. To determine the activity budget and feeding behaviour and evaluate the effects of seasonality in wild and human- altered habitats of Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis), we conducted this study in the Nagarjun forest of Shivapuri-Nagarjun National Park (SNNP) in central Nepal. We also updated the list of plant food items of Assamese macaques in the SNNP. Using scan and all-occurrence sampling, we recorded the diets and activities of Assamese macaques in 2 social groups, a wild-feeding group (WG) and a semi-provisioned group (SPG), throughout the year from August 2013 to July 2014. Both groups spent most of their time in feeding activities and were quite arboreal, but there were significant differences in the activity budgets and diets between the groups. Human food was the main component of the diet for the SPG, whereas it was fruit for the WG, indicating a normally frugivorous diet. Furthermore, the activity budget and diet composition varied in response to the season. These results indicate that provisioning alters the activity and feeding behaviour of macaques, and can also increase human-macaque conflict and disease transmission.

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Effects of food provisioning on the behaviour of commensal Hamadryas Baboons,Papio hamadryas, at Al Hada Mountain in Western Saudi Arabia

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Effect of Provisioning on the Temporal Variation in the Activity Budget of Urban Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in West Sumatra, Indonesia

Effect of Provisioning on the Temporal Variation in the Activity Budget of Urban Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in West Sumatra, Indonesia

Recreational fish feeding affects coastal fish behavior and increases frequency of predation on damselfish Chromis chromis nests

Diet and Activity of Macaca assamensis in Wild and Semi-Provisioned Groups in Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park, Nepal

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