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

An examination of long-tailed macaque populations, looking at the issues of their sustainability and the contexts and consequences of macaques interacting with human societies.

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

9780521764339, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 April 2011

380 pages
23.5 x 16 x 2.2 cm, 0.73 kg

'… an important and major resource for primatologists, anthropologists, and conservationists.' Mammalia

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.

Foreword David Quamman
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. The Status and Distribution of Long-Tailed Macaques: 1. The common monkey of southeast Asia: long-tailed macaque populations, ethnophoresy, and their occurrence in human environments Michael D. Gumert
Box 1.1. The long-tailed macaques of Karimunjawa (Macaca fascicularis karimondjiwae): a small and isolated subspecies threatened by human-macaque conflict Nur Afendi, Devis Rachmawan and Michael D. Gumert
Box 1.2. Trade in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) Kaitlyn-Elizabeth Foley and Chris R. Shepherd
2. Distribution and current status of long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea) in Myanmar Aye Mi San and Yuzuru Hamada
Box 2.1. Preliminary survey of the long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) on Java, Indonesia: distribution and human-primate conflict Randall C. Kyes, Entang Iskandar and Joko Pamungkas
3. Distribution and present status of long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in Laos and their ecological relationship with rhesus macaques (M. mulatta) Yuzuru Hamada, Hiroyuki Kurita, Shunji Goto, Yoshiki Morimitsu, Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Sitideth Pathonton, Bounnam Pathontone, Phouthone Kingsada, Chanda Vongsombath, Fong Samouth and Bounthob Praxaysombath
Box 3.1. A possible decline in populations of the long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) in northeastern Cambodia Benjamin P. Y.-H. Lee
Part II. The Human-Macaque Interface: 4. Campus monkeys of University Kebangsaan Malaysia: nuisance problems and students' perceptions Badrul Munir Md-Zain, Mohamed Reza Tarmizi and Mastura Mohd Zaki
5. Human impact on long-tailed macaques in Thailand Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Yolanda Vazquez and Yuzuru Hamada
6. Macaque behavior at the human-monkey interface: the activity and demography of semi-free ranging Macaca fascicularis at Padangtegal, Bali, Indonesia Agustín Fuentes
Box 6.1. Recent demographic and behavioral data of Macaca fascicularis at Padangtegal, Bali, Indonesia F. Brotcorne, I. N. Wandia, A. L. T. Rompis, I. G. Soma, I. N. Suartha and M. C. Hunyen
7. The role of M. fascicularis in infectious agent transmission Gregory Engel and Lisa Jones-Engel
Part III. Ethnophoresy of Long-Tailed Macaques: 8. Macaca fascicularis in Mauritius: implications for macaque-human interactions and for future research on long-tailed macaques Robert Sussman, Christopher A. Shaffer and Lisa Guidi
9. Macaca fascicularis in Mauritius: a pest funding conservation projects Nada Padayatchy
10. Ethnophoresy: the exotic macaques on Ngeaur Island, Republic of Palua Bruce P. Wheatley
Part IV. Comparisons with Rhesus Macaques: 11. India's rhesus populations: protectionism vs. conservation management Charles Southwick and M. Farooq Siddiqi
Box 11.1. Managing human-macaque conflict in Himachal, India Sandeep Rattan
Part V. Understanding and Managing the Human-Macaque Interface: 12. Developing sustainable human-macaque communities Lisa Jones-Engel, Gregory Engel, Michael D. Gumert and Agustín Fuentes
Box 12.1. Management of macaque nuisance in Hong Kong Chung-Tong Shek
Box 12.2. Lessons and challenges in the management of long-tailed macaques in urban Singapore Benjamin P. Y.-H. Lee and Sharon Chan
13. Future directions for research and conservation of long-tailed macaque populations Michael D. Gumert, Agustín Fuentes, Gregory Engel and Lisa Jones-Engel
Index.

Subject Areas: Ecological science, the Biosphere [PSAF], Biology, life sciences [PS]