Human-wildlife conflict: proximate predictors of aggression between humans and rhesus macaques in India

摘要: Macaques live in close contact with humans across South and Southeast Asia, direct interaction is frequent. Aggressive a concern many locations, particularly among populations of rhesus longtail macaques that co-inhabit urbanized cities towns humans. We investigated the proximate factors influencing occurrence macaque aggression toward as well human to determine extent which behavior elicits vice versa. conducted 3-month study four free-ranging Dehradun, India from October-December 2012, using event sampling record all instances human-macaque (N = 3120). Our results show while was predicted by potential for economic losses or damage, influenced aggressive intimidating recent rates conspecific aggression. Further, adult female participated more frequently than expected, whereas subadult males expected. analyses demonstrate neither nor unprovoked. Rather, both are responding one another's behavior. Mitigation human-primate conflict, indeed other types human-wildlife conflict such coupled systems, will require holistic investigation ways each participant to, consequently altering, other. Am J Phys Anthropol, 2014. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Language: en