Impact of individual demographic and social factors on human-wildlife interactions: a comparative study of three macaque species.

ABSTRACT: Despite increasing conflict at human-wildlife interfaces, there exists little research on how the attributes and behavior of individual wild animals may influence human-wildlife interactions. Adopting a comparative approach, we examined the impact of animals' life-history and social attributes on interactions between humans and (peri)urban macaques in Asia. For 10 groups of rhesus, long-tailed, and bonnet macaques, we collected social behavior, spatial data, and human-interaction data for 11-20 months on pre-identified individuals. Mixed-model analysis revealed that, across all species, males and spatially peripheral individuals interacted with humans the most, and that high-ranking individuals initiated more interactions with humans than low-rankers. Among bonnet macaques, but not rhesus

SUBMITTER: Balasubramaniam KN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7738552 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature