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Life is short for baby monkeys amid the oil palms

Young southern pig-tailed macaques, an endangered species, are less likely to reach their first birthday if they spend time on plantations.
A female pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) sitting on a tree branch with her nursing baby

The southern pig-tailed macaque spends time in oil-palm plantations, where dogs, humans and other threats pose risks to baby macaques. Credit: Fiona Rogers/Nature Picture Library

As people transform the planet, wild animals are spending more time in human landscapes. Anna Holzner at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research in Leipzig and her colleagues investigated how use of agricultural habitat affects the survival of infant southern pig-tailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina)1.

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Nature 625, 427 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00008-9

References

  1. Holzner, A., Rameli, N. I. A. M., Ruppert, N. & Widdig, A. Curr. Biol. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.002 (2024).

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