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For 12 years, primatologist Nadine Ruppert and her colleagues have had one recurring task on their calendar: tagging along with a group of southern pig-tailed macaques in Segari, Peninsular Malaysia, as these primates hop between native rainforests and the neighboring oil palm plantations. Over the years, the researchers successfully habituated the group: they named every […]
The detrimental effects of palm oil plantations on wildlife have been brought to light by a decade-long study conducted by researchers.
Frequent visits to oil palm plantations are leading to a sharp increase in mortality rates among infant southern pig-tailed macaques <i>(Macaca nemestrina)</i> in the wild, according to a new study.
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.
<p>Frequent visits to oil palm plantations are leading to a sharp increase in mortality rates among infant southern pig-tailed macaques (<em>Macaca nemestrina</em>) in the wild, according to a new study published in <em>Current Biology. </em>In addition to increased risk from predators and human encounters, exposure to harmful agricultural chemicals in this environment may negatively affect infant development.</p>