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- Title
Sleeping site selection in wild stump-tailed macaques.
- Authors
ZOTHANSIAMA; SOLANKI, G. S.
- Abstract
The article presents a study on sleeping site selection in wild stump-tailed macaques and examining their functional significance. The findings include the stump-tailed macaques used six sleeping trees belonging to two different species including Ficus bengalensis and Ficus religiosa, the reduced awareness of sleeping primates made them more vulnerable to predation, and the need for conservation of tree species used for sleeping for the conservation of stump-tailed macaques.
- Subjects
STUMP-tailed macaque; SLEEP; BANYAN tree; FICUS religiosa; PRIMATES; ANIMAL behavior
- Publication
Current Science (00113891), 2016, Vol 110, Issue 2, p157
- ISSN
0011-3891
- Publication type
Article