Palm Oil Plantations are Killing Baby Monkeys
The detrimental effects of palm oil plantations on wildlife have been brought to light by a decade-long study conducted by researchers.
Source: onegreenplanet.org
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The detrimental effects of palm oil plantations on wildlife have been brought to light by a decade-long study conducted by researchers.
In a decade-long study in Malaysia, researchers discovered that 57 percent of macaques born between 2014 and 2023 died before they were even a year old.
Prolonged exposure to plantation environments tripled the likelihood of mortality among the infant primates
They get this information through a behavior called peering.