Agustín Fuentes

Monkeys on the Edge

Ecology and Management of Long-Tailed Macaques and Their Interface with Humans
Herausgeber: Gumert, Michael D; Jones-Engel, Lisa

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Produktbeschreibung

Examination of long-tailed macaque populations, issues of their sustainability and the contexts and consequences of macaques interacting with human societies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780521764339
• ISBN-10: 0521764335
• Artikelnr.: 32560749

Autorenporträt

Agustín Fuentes is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame. His current research projects include assessing behavior, ecology and pathogen transmission in human-monkey interactions in Southeast Asia and Gibraltar and examining the roles of cooperation, social negotiation and niche construction in primate and human evolution.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword David Quamman; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. The Status and
Distribution of Long-Tailed Macaques: 1. The common monkey of southeast
Asia: long-tailed macaque populations, ethnophoresy, and their occurrence
in human environments Michael D. Gumert; Box 1.1. The long-tailed macaques
of Karimunjawa (Macaca fascicularis karimondjiwae): a small and isolated
subspecies threatened by human-macaque conflict Nur Afendi, Devis Rachmawan
and Michael D. Gumert; Box 1.2. Trade in long-tailed macaques (Macaca
fascicularis) Kaitlyn-Elizabeth Foley and Chris R. Shepherd; 2.
Distribution and current status of long-tailed macaques (Macaca
fascicularis aurea) in Myanmar Aye Mi San and Yuzuru Hamada; Box 2.1.
Preliminary survey of the long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) on
Java, Indonesia: distribution and human-primate conflict Randall C. Kyes,
Entang Iskandar and Joko Pamungkas; 3. Distribution and present status of
long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in Laos and their ecological
relationship with rhesus macaques (M. mulatta) Yuzuru Hamada, Hiroyuki
Kurita, Shunji Goto, Yoshiki Morimitsu, Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Sitideth
Pathonton, Bounnam Pathontone, Phouthone Kingsada, Chanda Vongsombath, Fong
Samouth and Bounthob Praxaysombath; Box 3.1. A possible decline in
populations of the long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) in
northeastern Cambodia Benjamin P. Y.-H. Lee; Part II. The Human-Macaque
Interface: 4. Campus monkeys of University Kebangsaan Malaysia: nuisance
problems and students' perceptions Badrul Munir Md-Zain, Mohamed Reza
Tarmizi and Mastura Mohd Zaki; 5. Human impact on long-tailed macaques in
Thailand Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Yolanda Vazquez and Yuzuru Hamada; 6.
Macaque behavior at the human-monkey interface: the activity and demography
of semi-free ranging Macaca fascicularis at Padangtegal, Bali, Indonesia
Agustín Fuentes; Box 6.1. Recent demographic and behavioral data of Macaca
fascicularis at Padangtegal, Bali, Indonesia F. Brotcorne, I. N. Wandia, A.
L. T. Rompis, I. G. Soma, I. N. Suartha and M. C. Hunyen; 7. The role of M.
fascicularis in infectious agent transmission Gregory Engel and Lisa
Jones-Engel; Part III. Ethnophoresy of Long-Tailed Macaques: 8. Macaca
fascicularis in Mauritius: implications for macaque-human interactions and
for future research on long-tailed macaques Robert Sussman, Christopher A.
Shaffer and Lisa Guidi; 9. Macaca fascicularis in Mauritius: a pest funding
conservation projects Nada Padayatchy; 10. Ethnophoresy: the exotic
macaques on Ngeaur Island, Republic of Palua Bruce P. Wheatley; Part IV.
Comparisons with Rhesus Macaques: 11. India's rhesus populations:
protectionism vs. conservation management Charles Southwick and M. Farooq
Siddiqi; Box 11.1. Managing human-macaque conflict in Himachal, India
Sandeep Rattan; Part V. Understanding and Managing the Human-Macaque
Interface: 12. Developing sustainable human-macaque communities Lisa
Jones-Engel, Gregory Engel, Michael D. Gumert and Agustín Fuentes; Box
12.1. Management of macaque nuisance in Hong Kong Chung-Tong Shek; Box
12.2. Lessons and challenges in the management of long-tailed macaques in
urban Singapore Benjamin P. Y.-H. Lee and Sharon Chan; 13. Future
directions for research and conservation of long-tailed macaque populations
Michael D. Gumert, Agustín Fuentes, Gregory Engel and Lisa Jones-Engel;
Index.