Frequent visits to oil palm plantations are leading to a sharp increase in mortality rates among infant southern pig-tailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina) in the wild, according to a new study. In ...

L ong-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) and southern pig-tailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina) have emerged as important model organisms, especially for research on infectious diseases. While not ...

image: Female southern pig-tailed macaque with infant. view more . Credit: Anna Holzner. Frequent visits to oil palm plantations are leading to a sharp increase in mortality rates among infant ...

Risk of human disease due to rising pig and monkey populations, research suggests . According to research led by The University of Queensland, growing populations of wild pigs and macaque monkeys ...

A long-tailed macaque eats a biscuit on World Wildlife Day in Indonesia on March 3, 2023. Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP via Getty Images ...

“In these oil palm plantations where [pig-tailed macaques] seem to be thriving as mentioned in the new study, in fact, they could also be locally declining because in our study population in ...

The zoo shared the exciting news in a Facebook post:. We have some exciting baby news to help brighten up your Monday! Glenda, our long-tailed macaque gave birth on Oct. 11 to an adorable baby boy!

Female long-tailed macaques have a five-and-a-half to six-month-long pregnancy and give birth to a single baby. ... Then macaque Kathy added another baby, Cora, to the troop on Jan. 3. Related ...

Image by Amy Downes. A pig-tailed macaque searching a palm tree for an unusual meal. As our plane came into land in Kuala Lumpur, the first thing we noticed was the palm oil plantations stretching ...