Tourism and Infant-Directed Aggression in Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana) at Mt. Huangshan, China

摘要: ABSTRACTPrevious studies of habituated Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana) at Mt. Huangshan, China demonstrated the negative impact that some tourism management strategies had on monkeys' annual infant mortality, but data precise causes and perpetrators injuries were not available. We worked same site recorded rates aggression older monkeys directed toward group infants as a function tourist numbers proximity. found correlation between number people viewing platform frequency group's infants, effect is slight. noted infant-directed (IDA) was more likely to occur in provisioning zone where tourists bounded two sides, despite fact spent very little time location. The alpha beta males engaged IDA than expected, while other three adult males, females, juveniles exhibited less expected. Males' i...