Primate crop feeding behavior, crop protection, and conservation

CM Hill - International Journal of Primatology, 2017 - Springer
Many species across a range of primate genera, irrespective of dietary and locomotory
specializations, can and will incorporate agricultural crops in their diets. However, although …

Behavioral causes, ecological consequences, and management challenges associated with wildlife foraging in human-modified landscapes

G Fehlmann, MJ O'riain, I FÜrtbauer, AJ King - BioScience, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Humans have altered up to half of the world's land surface. Wildlife living within or close to
these human-modified landscapes are presented with opportunities and risks associated …

The Spatial Ecology of Chacma Baboons (Papio ursinus) in a Human-modified Environment

TS Hoffman, MJ O'Riain - International Journal of Primatology, 2011 - Springer
Anthropogenic habitat alteration can have a dramatic effect on the spatial distribution and
ranging patterns of primates. We characterized the spatial ecology of a free-living troop of …

Prey density threshold and tidal influence on reef manta ray foraging at an aggregation site on the Great Barrier Reef

AO Armstrong, AJ Armstrong, FRA Jaine, LIE Couturier… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Large tropical and sub-tropical marine animals must meet their energetic requirements in a
largely oligotrophic environment. Many planktivorous elasmobranchs, whose thermal …

30 days in the life: daily nutrient balancing in a wild chacma baboon

CA Johnson, D Raubenheimer, JM Rothman, D Clarke… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
For most animals, the ability to regulate intake of specific nutrients is vital to fitness. Recent
studies have demonstrated nutrient regulation in nonhuman primates over periods of one …

A Low-Cost Manipulation of Food Resources Reduces Spatial Overlap Between Baboons (Papio ursinus) and Humans in Conflict

BS Kaplan, MJ O'Riain, R van Eeden… - International Journal of …, 2011 - Springer
Competition over food and space is a primary driver of human–wildlife conflict. In the Cape
Peninsula, South Africa, chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) have adapted to a human …

Differences in Activity Budgets and Diet Between Semiprovisioned and Wild‐Feeding Groups of the Endangered Barbary Macaque (Macaca sylvanus) in the Central …

A El Alami, E Van Lavieren, A Rachida… - American journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The Barbary macaque, Macaca sylvanus is a very adaptable primate species occupying a
wide range of habitats in Morocco and Algeria. Several groups of this endangered macaque …

Extreme behavioural shifts by baboons exploiting risky, resource-rich, human-modified environments

G Fehlmann, MJ O'Riain, C Kerr-Smith, S Hailes… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
A range of species exploit anthropogenic food resources in behaviour known as 'raiding'.
Such behavioural flexibility is considered a central component of a species' ability to cope …

Flexible group cohesion and coordination, but robust leader–follower roles, in a wild social primate using urban space

AM Bracken, C Christensen… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Collective behaviour has a critical influence on group social structure and organization,
individual fitness and social evolution, but we know little about whether and how it changes …

Phylogenetic Evidence That Two Distinct Trichuris Genotypes Infect both Humans and Non-Human Primates

DF Ravasi, MJ O'Riain, F Davids, N Illing - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Although there has been extensive debate about whether Trichuris suis and Trichuris
trichiura are separate species, only one species of the whipworm T. trichiura has been …