core area; home range; Khao Yai National Park; Macaca leonina; northern pigtailed macaque; site fidelity; socioecological models; white-handed gibbons
Abstract :
[en] Human food supplementation can affect components of animal socioecology by altering the abundance and distribution of available food. We studied the effect of food supplementation by comparing the ranging patterns and intergroup interactions of two groups of northern pigtailed macaques (Macaca leonina), a non-territorial primate species. One group was partially reliant on food provisioning, whereas the other group foraged wild food. We also compared the macaques’ movement with that of a group of white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar), a territorial species inhabiting the same site. Home range, core area, and daily path lengths were significantly smaller for the semi-provisioned group than for the wild-feeding group. In contrast to wild-feeding macaques, supplemented macaques showed higher fidelity to home range, core area, and particularly to the region where human food was most accessible and abundant. The rela- tionship of daily path length and home range indicated a low defendability index for wild-feeding macaques; the higher index for the semi-provisioned group was consistent with the territorial pattern found in gibbons. Semi-provisioned macaques showed further traits of territoriality with aggression during intergroup encounters. These findings indicate that human modification of food availability can sig- nificantly affect movement patterns and intergroup competition in macaques. The observed ranging dynamics related to food provision- ing may decrease the efficiency of macaques as seed dispersers and increase predation on their home range, and thus have important consequences for plant regeneration and animal diversity.
Disciplines :
Environmental sciences & ecology
Author, co-author :
José Dominguez, Juan Manuel; Universidad de Granada (España) = University of Granada (Spain) - UGR > Laboratory of Anthropology > Legal Medicine, Toxicology and Physical Anthropology
Huynen, Marie-Claude ; Université de Liège > Département de Biologie, Ecologie et Evolution > Biologie du comportement - Ethologie et psychologie animale
Garcia, Carmen J; Universidad de Granada (España) = University of Granada (Spain) - UGR > Laboratory of Anthropology > Legal Medicine, Toxicology and Physical Anthropology
Albert-Daviaud, Aurélie
Savini, Tommaso
Asensio, Norberto; Mahidol University, Thailand > Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies,
Language :
English
Title :
Non-territorial Macaques Can Range Like Territorial Gibbons When Partially Provisioned With Food
Alternative titles :
[en] Les macaques non-territoriaux range comme les gibbons territoriaux lorsqu'ils sont approvisionnés
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