The cognition of 'nuisance'species

LP Barrett, LA Stanton, S Benson-Amram - Animal Behaviour, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent work in animal cognition has focused on how animals respond to new or changing
environments. Although many species are currently in decline, other species are thriving in …

How do animals navigate the urban jungle? A review of cognition in urban-adapted animals

R Sarkar, A Bhadra - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapid urbanisation leading to habitat loss is a major problem for biodiversity conservation.
While urbanisation negatively affects the survival of many species, some species are well …

Wildlife is imperiled in peri-urban landscapes: threats to arboreal mammals

ÓM Chaves, JCS Júnior, G Buss, ZMB Hirano… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urbanization and deforestation impose severe challenges to wildlife, particularly for forest-
living vertebrates. Understanding how the peri-urban matrix impacts their survival is critical …

Threat analysis of forest fragmentation and degradation for Peruvian primates

S Shanee, L Fernández-Hidalgo, N Allgas, V Vero… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
Peru has 55 primate taxa (including all species and subspecies), a third of which are
threatened. The major drivers of habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation are grazing …

Primate responses to changing environments in the Anthropocene

U Kalbitzer, CA Chapman - Primate life histories, sex roles, and …, 2018 - Springer
Most primate habitats are undergoing intense and rapid changes due to anthropogenic
influences resulting in many primate populations being threatened. Habitat loss and …

Primates adjust movement strategies due to changing food availability

R Reyna-Hurtado, JA Teichroeb, TR Bonnell… - Behavioral …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Animals are hypothesized to search their environments in predictable ways depending on
the distribution of resources. Evenly distributed foods are thought to be best exploited with …

[HTML][HTML] Risk perception of vervet monkeys Chlorocebus pygerythrus to humans in urban and rural environments

P Mikula, G Šaffa, E Nelson, P Tryjanowski - Behavioural processes, 2018 - Elsevier
Like other animals, primates respond to predation using behavioural adaptations. Hence,
they should optimise their escape strategy under the risk of predation, and flee at a distance …

Think fast!: vervet monkeys assess the risk of being displaced by a dominant competitor when making foraging decisions

TJM Arseneau-Robar, KA Anderson… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Foraging animals need to quickly assess the costs and benefits of different foraging
decisions, including resource quantity, quality, preference, ease of access, dispersion …

Feeding ecology and diet of the southern geladas (Theropithecus gelada obscurus) in human‐modified landscape, Wollo, Ethiopia

Z Kifle, A Bekele - Ecology and evolution, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Studying the dietary flexibility of primates that live in human‐modified environments is
crucial for understanding their ecological adaptations as well as developing management …

Anthropogenic influences on the time budgets of urban vervet monkeys

HR Thatcher, CT Downs, NF Koyama - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2019 - Elsevier
Continuing urban developments are ecologically changing many landscapes. A greater
understanding of how wildlife adapt behaviorally to these changes is necessary to inform …