Young southern pig-tailed macaques, an endangered species, are less likely to reach their first birthday if they spend time on plantations. Skip to main content. Thank you for visiting nature.com.

L ong-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) and southern pig-tailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina) have emerged as important model organisms, especially for research on infectious diseases. While not ...

Two species of macaque monkeys are involved: the long-tailed macaque, known as kera, and pig-tailed macaque, known as berok or, in Sabah, gebuk. Both species occur in all three regions of Malaysia.

Frequent visits to oil palm plantations are leading to a sharp increase in mortality rates among infant southern pig-tailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina) in the wild, according to a new study ...

“In these oil palm plantations where [pig-tailed macaques] seem to be thriving as mentioned in the new study, in fact, they could also be locally declining because in our study population in ...

Frequent visits to oil palm plantations are leading to a sharp increase in mortality rates among infant southern pig-tailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina) in the wild, according to a new study. In ...

image: Female southern pig-tailed macaque with infant. view more . Credit: Anna Holzner. Frequent visits to oil palm plantations are leading to a sharp increase in mortality rates among infant ...

Image by Amy Downes. A pig-tailed macaque searching a palm tree for an unusual meal. As our plane came into land in Kuala Lumpur, the first thing we noticed was the palm oil plantations stretching ...

After about 18 months of study, the federal agency determined that neither the long-tailed macaque nor the southern pig-tailed macaque qualify for listing as threatened or endangered.

Unlike northern pig-tailed macaques that split into smaller groups and merge again, stump-tails live in large troops. Largest group The two troops that the researcher studied had more than 100 ...

Image: Pig-tailed macaque family. Pic: Ecological Cascades Lab During the study, the team encountered "huge troops of macaques" in these regions. Dr ...