Brief report: Crocodile predation on a crab‐eating macaque in Borneo
作者:
Biruté M. F. Galdikas,
Carey P. Yeager,
期刊:
American Journal of Primatology
(WILEY Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 6,
issue 1
页码: 49-51
ISSN:0275-2565
年代: 1984
DOI:10.1002/ajp.1350060106
出版商: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
关键词: crocodile;predation;Macaca fascicularis;crab‐eating macaque;Borneo
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractAn immature crab‐eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis), which was sitting on the river bank near the Orangutan Research and Conservation Project base camp in the Tanjung Puting Reserve, Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia, was seized by a crocodile which rapidly emerged from the water and then resubmerged with the monkey in its jaws. As crocodile populations are in a decline throughout Borneo, crocodile predation on crab‐eating macaques was probably more frequent in the past. This predation may have influenced development of some behaviors with an antipredator function inM. fascicula
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