38 results on '"Michael D. Gumert"'
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2. There Is More than One Way to Crack an Oyster: Identifying Variation in Burmese Long-Tailed Macaque (Macaca fascicularis aurea) Stone-Tool Use.
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Amanda Tan, Say Hoon Tan, Dhaval Vyas, Suchinda Malaivijitnond, and Michael D Gumert
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
We explored variation in patterns of percussive stone-tool use on coastal foods by Burmese long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea) from two islands in Laem Son National Park, Ranong, Thailand. We catalogued variation into three hammering classes and 17 action patterns, after examining 638 tool-use bouts across 90 individuals. Hammering class was based on the stone surface used for striking food, being face, point, and edge hammering. Action patterns were discriminated by tool material, hand use, posture, and striking motion. Hammering class was analyzed for associations with material and behavioural elements of tool use. Action patterns were not, owing to insufficient instances of most patterns. We collected 3077 scan samples from 109 macaques on Piak Nam Yai Island's coasts, to determine the proportion of individuals using each hammering class and action pattern. Point hammering was significantly more associated with sessile foods, smaller tools, faster striking rates, smoother recoil, unimanual use, and more varied striking direction, than were face and edge hammering, while both point and edge hammering were significantly more associated with precision gripping than face hammering. Edge hammering also showed distinct differences depending on whether such hammering was applied to sessile or unattached foods, resembling point hammering for sessile foods and face hammering for unattached foods. Point hammering and sessile edge hammering compared to prior descriptions of axe hammering, while face and unattached edge hammering compared to pound hammering. Analysis of scans showed that 80% of individuals used tools, each employing one to four different action patterns. The most common patterns were unimanual point hammering (58%), symmetrical-bimanual face hammering (47%) and unimanual face hammering (37%). Unimanual edge hammering was relatively frequent (13%), compared to the other thirteen rare action patterns (
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- 2015
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3. Prevalence of tool behaviour is associated with pelage phenotype in intraspecific hybrid long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea × M. f. fascicularis)
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Michael D. Gumert, Lydia V. Luncz, Atsushi Iriki, Lars Kulik, Adam D. Switzer, Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Constance Ting Chua, Amanda Wei Yi Tan, Michael Haslam, School of Social Sciences, Asian School of the Environment, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine), RIKEN-NTU Research Centre for Human Biology, and Earth Observatory of Singapore
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Ecological environment ,Significant difference ,Zoology ,Subspecies ,Biology ,Tool Behaviour ,Phenotype ,Intraspecific competition ,Behavioral Neuroscience ,Long-tailed macaque ,Psychology [Social sciences] ,Long-tailed Macaque ,Animal Science and Zoology ,Animal culture ,Hybrid - Abstract
Stone-hammering behaviour customarily occurs in Burmese long-tailed macaques, Macaca fascicularis aurea, and in some Burmese-common longtail hybrids, M. f. aurea × M. f. fascicularis; however, it is not observed in common longtails. Facial pelage discriminates these subspecies, and hybrids express variable patterns. It was tested if stone hammering related to facial pelage in 48 hybrid longtails, across two phenotypes — hybrid-like () and common-like (). In both phenotypes, tool users showed similar frequency and proficiency of stone hammering; however, common-like phenotypes showed significantly fewer tool users (42%) than hybrid-like phenotypes (76%). 111 Burmese longtails showed the highest prevalence of tool users (88%). Hybrid longtails living together in a shared social and ecological environment showed a significant difference in tool user prevalence based on facial pelage phenotype. This is consistent with inherited factors accounting for the difference, and thus could indicate Burmese longtails carry developmental biases for their tool behaviour.
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- 2019
4. Use-wear patterns on wild macaque stone tools reveal their behavioural history.
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Michael Haslam, Michael D Gumert, Dora Biro, Susana Carvalho, and Suchinda Malaivijitnond
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
Burmese long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea) are one of a limited number of wild animal species to use stone tools, with their tool use focused on pounding shelled marine invertebrates foraged from intertidal habitats. These monkeys exhibit two main styles of tool use: axe hammering of oysters, and pound hammering of unattached encased foods. In this study, we examined macroscopic use-wear patterns on a sample of 60 wild macaque stone tools from Piak Nam Yai Island, Thailand, that had been collected following behavioural observation, in order to (i) quantify the wear patterns in terms of the types and distribution of use-damage on the stones, and (ii) develop a Use-Action Index (UAI) to differentiate axe hammers from pound hammers by wear patterns alone. We used the intensity of crushing damage on differing surface zones of the stones, as well as stone weight, to produce a UAI that had 92% concordance when compared to how the stones had been used by macaques, as observed independently prior to collection. Our study is the first to demonstrate that quantitative archaeological use-wear techniques can accurately reconstruct the behavioural histories of non-human primate stone tools.
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- 2013
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5. Young macaques (Macaca fascicularis) preferentially bias attention towards closer, older, and better tool users
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Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Michael D. Gumert, Charlotte K. Hemelrijk, Amanda Tan, and Hemelrijk group
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Male ,0106 biological sciences ,Population ,Behavioural sciences ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Macaque ,Dreyfus model of skill acquisition ,Developmental psychology ,Bias ,biology.animal ,Social partners ,Animals ,Learning ,Attention ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology ,education ,Cultural transmission in animals ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,education.field_of_study ,biology ,Psychological research ,05 social sciences ,Social learning ,Social Learning ,Macaca fascicularis ,Female ,Psychology - Abstract
Examining how animals direct social learning during skill acquisition under natural conditions, generates data for examining hypotheses regarding how transmission biases influence cultural change in animal populations. We studied a population of macaques on Koram Island, Thailand, and examined model-based biases during interactions by unskilled individuals with tool-using group members. We first compared the prevalence of interactions (watching, obtaining food, object exploration) and proximity to tool users during interactions, in developing individuals (infants, juveniles) versus mature non-learners (adolescents, adults), to provide evidence that developing individuals are actively seeking information about tool use from social partners. All infants and juveniles, but only 49% of mature individuals carried out interacted with tool users. Macaques predominantly obtained food by scrounging or stealing, suggesting maximizing scrounging opportunities motivates interactions with tool users. However, while interactions by adults was limited to obtaining food, young macaques and particularly infants also watched tool users and explored objects, indicating additional interest in tool use itself. We then ran matrix correlations to identify interaction biases, and what attributes of tool users influenced these. Biases correlated with social affiliation, but macaques also preferentially targeted tool users that potentially increase scrounging and learning opportunities. Results suggest that social structure may constrain social learning, but the motivation to bias interactions towards tool users to maximize feeding opportunities may also socially modulate learning by facilitating close proximity to better tool users, and further interest in tool-use actions and materials, especially during development.
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- 2018
6. A Simian View of the Oldowan
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Michael D. Gumert, William C. McGrew, Tiago Falótico, and Eduardo B. Ottoni
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biology ,Evolutionary biology ,Simian ,Psychology ,biology.organism_classification ,Oldowan - Abstract
Findings from field primatology show that three living primate genera—ape (Pan), Old World monkey (Macaca), and New World monkey (Sapajus)—use elementary lithic technology to obtain and process food in nature. All three taxa use stone tools, producing enduring artifacts with distinctive archaeological signatures. In a comparison we show that each taxon has its own suite of tools, both organic and inorganic. All use percussion, but there are differences in the number and type of other tools in each taxon. Our assessment also allows for point-by-point comparisons with the early toolkits of extinct hominins, and here we compare to the Oldowan. This broader comparison shows that modeling the evolutionary origins of human material culture continues to advance. Wynn’s “ape adaptive grade” must now be expanded to a more inclusive “simian adaptive grade,” as monkeys too show convergent features with percussive stone technology.
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- 2019
7. Long-tailed Macaque Stone Tool Use in Intertidal Habitats
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Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Michael D. Gumert, and Amanda Tan
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Stone tool ,Long-tailed macaque ,Geography ,Habitat ,Ecology ,engineering ,Intertidal zone ,engineering.material - Published
- 2019
8. Stone tool transport by wild Burmese long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea)
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Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Michael Haslam, Suchinda Malaivijitnond, and Michael D. Gumert
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0301 basic medicine ,Stone tool ,Archeology ,biology ,Ecology ,Foraging ,engineering.material ,Macaque ,language.human_language ,Predation ,Burmese ,03 medical and health sciences ,Niche construction ,030104 developmental biology ,biology.animal ,language ,engineering ,Primate ,Single episode - Abstract
Archaeologists have used stone transport as a proxy to understand a variety of cognitive, logistical and social problems faced by human ancestors. In the same way, tool transport in our close relatives, non-human primates, has been seen as an important indicator of material selection proclivities, and as a contributing factor to the formation of activity sites as part of niche construction processes. Non-human primate transport behaviour also assists in framing evolutionary scenarios for the emergence of stone tool use in the hominin lineage. Here, we present the first study of directly observed stone tool transport in wild and unhabituated Burmese long-tailed macaques ( Macaca fascicularis aurea ) in Thailand. These macaques were observed during intertidal foraging activities, during which they pound open hard-shelled molluscs with stone tools. We recorded 2449 transport bouts, when a long-tailed macaque carried a stone tool from one prey target to the next, and found that on average the same tool was used to sequentially consume nine prey items in each foraging episode. The maximum number of prey items consumed in a single episode was 63. We found that tools used to open sessile oysters typically were used to consume more prey per episode than those employed on motile prey, and females transported tools further than males. Heavier tools (> 200 g) were rarely transported more than a few metres, but the longest transport distance was over 87 m. Importantly for primate archaeological analysis of macaque tool use sites, we found that the median transport distance was 0.5 m, meaning that tools are very often used in the immediate vicinity of the place they were collected by a macaque.
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- 2016
9. Morphological characteristics and genetic diversity of Burmese long-tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea)
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Hiroo Imai, Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Aye Mi San, Yuzuru Hamada, Srichan Bunlungsup, and Michael D. Gumert
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0106 biological sciences ,education.field_of_study ,Genetic diversity ,05 social sciences ,Haplotype ,Population ,Zoology ,Biology ,Subspecies ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Genetic analysis ,Genetic divergence ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Animal Science and Zoology ,050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology ,Clade ,education ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Hybrid - Abstract
Macaca fascicularis aurea (Mfa) is the only macaque which has been recorded to use stone tools to access encased foods. They live in close contact with M. fascicularis fascicularis (Mff) in southwestern Thailand and the hybrids were reported [Fooden, 1995]. Although Mff and Mfa can be seen in the same habitat types, tool-use behavior has never been reported in Mff. Thus, comparing the morphological characteristics and genetics between Mfa and Mff should help elucidate not only the morphological differences and genetic divergence between these subspecies but also potentially the relationship between genetics and their tool use behavior. We surveyed Mfa and Mff in Myanmar and Thailand, ranging from 16° 58' to 7° 12' N. Fecal or blood samples were collected from eight, five, and four populations of Mfa, Mff, and Mff × Mfa morphological hybrids along with three individuals of captive Chinese M. mulatta (Mm), respectively, for mtDNA and Y-chromosome (TSPY and SRY genes) DNA sequence analyses. In addition, eight populations were captured and measured for 38 somatometric dimensions. Comparison of the somatic measurements revealed that Mfa had a statistically significantly shorter tail than Mff (P < 0.05). Based on the mtDNA sequences, Mfa was separated from the Mm/Mff clade. Within the Mfa clade, the mainland Myanmar population was separate from the Mergui Archipelago and Thailand Andaman seacoast populations. All the morphological hybrids had the Mff mtDNA haplotype. Based on the Y-chromosome sequences, the three major clades of Mm/Indochinese Mff, Sundaic Mff, and Mfa were constructed. The hybrid populations grouped either with the Mm/Indochinese Mff or with the Mfa. Regarding the genetic analysis, one subspecies hybrid population in Thailand (KRI) elicited tool use behavior, thus the potential role of genetics in tool use behavior is raised in addition to the environmental force, morphological suitability, and cognitive capability. Am. J. Primatol. 78:441-455, 2016. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- 2015
10. Primate archaeology evolves
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John W.K. Harris, R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Adrián Arroyo, Caroline Schuppli, Tiago Falótico, Amanda Tan, William C. McGrew, Michael Haslam, Michael D. Gumert, Lydia V. Luncz, Elisabetta Visalberghi, Dorothy M. Fragaszy, Jill D. Pruetz, Michael A. Huffman, Eduardo B. Ottoni, Fiona A. Stewart, Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Alex K. Piel, Ammie K. Kalan, Tomos Proffitt, University of Zurich, and Haslam, Michael
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Primates ,10207 Department of Anthropology ,0301 basic medicine ,Old World ,Lineage (evolution) ,Ecology (disciplines) ,Archaeological record ,hominids ,stone tool use ,03 medical and health sciences ,Anthropocentrism ,biology.animal ,Animals ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Primate ,050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,QL ,Tool Use Behavior ,Ecology ,biology ,300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology ,05 social sciences ,Biological anthropology ,Excavation ,CC ,Biological Evolution ,Archaeology ,1105 Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,030104 developmental biology ,Evolutionary biology ,2303 Ecology - Abstract
Since its inception, archaeology has traditionally focused exclusively on humans and our direct ancestors. However, recent years have seen archaeological techniques applied to material evidence left behind by non-human animals. Here, we review advances made by the most prominent field investigating past non-human tool use: primate archaeology. This field combines survey of wild primate activity areas with ethological observations, excavations and analyses that allow the reconstruction of past primate behaviour. Because the order Primates includes humans, new insights into the behavioural evolution of apes and monkeys also can be used to better interrogate the record of early tool use in our own, hominin, lineage. This work has recently doubled the set of primate lineages with an excavated archaeological record, adding Old World macaques and New World capuchin monkeys to chimpanzees and humans, and it has shown that tool selection and transport, and discrete site formation, are universal among wild stone-tool-using primates. It has also revealed that wild capuchins regularly break stone tools in a way that can make them difficult to distinguish from simple early hominin tools. Ultimately, this research opens up opportunities for the development of a broader animal archaeology, marking the end of archaeology's anthropocentric era.
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- 2018
11. Analysis of wild macaque stone tools used to crack oil palm nuts
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Michael Haslam, Magdalena S. Svensson, Michael D. Gumert, Tomos Proffitt, Suchinda Malaivijitnond, and V. L. Luncz
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0301 basic medicine ,percussive technology ,Elaeis guineensis ,Macaque ,03 medical and health sciences ,human evolution ,biology.animal ,Palm oil ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Primate ,050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology ,lcsh:Science ,use-wear ,Multidisciplinary ,biology ,05 social sciences ,food and beverages ,Biology (Whole Organism) ,hammerstone ,15. Life on land ,biology.organism_classification ,primate archaeology ,Macaca fascicularis ,030104 developmental biology ,Human evolution ,Evolutionary biology ,Plant species ,lcsh:Q ,Palm ,Hammerstone ,Research Article - Abstract
The discovery of oil palm ( Elaeis guineensis ) nut-cracking by wild long-tailed macaques ( Macaca fascicularis ) is significant for the study of non-human primate and hominin percussive behaviour. Up until now, only West African chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes verus ) and modern human populations were known to use stone hammers to crack open this particular hard-shelled palm nut. The addition of non-habituated, wild macaques increases our comparative dataset of primate lithic percussive behaviour focused on this one plant species. Here, we present an initial description of hammerstones used by macaques to crack oil palm nuts, recovered from active nut-cracking locations on Yao Noi Island, Ao Phang Nga National Park, Thailand. We combine a techno-typological approach with microscopic and macroscopic use-wear analysis of percussive damage to characterize the percussive signature of macaque palm oil nut-cracking tools. These artefacts are characterized by a high degree of battering and crushing on most surfaces, which is visible at both macro and microscopic levels. The degree and extent of this damage is a consequence of a dynamic interplay between a number of factors, including anvil morphology and macaque percussive techniques. Beyond the behavioural importance of these artefacts, macaque nut-cracking represents a new target for primate archaeological investigations, and opens new opportunities for comparisons between tool using primate species and with early hominin percussive behaviour, for which nut-cracking has been frequently inferred.
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- 2018
12. Technological response of wild macaques (Macaca fascicularis) to anthropogenic change
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Michael Haslam, Michael D. Gumert, Lydia V. Luncz, Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Tomos Proffitt, and Magdalena S. Svensson
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0106 biological sciences ,Anthropogenic influence ,engineering.material ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Macaque ,Natural (archaeology) ,Article ,Lithic technology ,biology.animal ,Nut cracking ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Primate ,050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology ,Transect ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Stone tool ,biology ,National park ,Ecology ,05 social sciences ,food and beverages ,Macaca fascicularis ,Animal ecology ,engineering ,Animal Science and Zoology ,Behavioral flexibility ,Tool use - Abstract
Anthropogenic disturbances have a detrimental impact on the natural world; the vast expansion of palm oil monocultures is one of the most significant agricultural influences. Primates worldwide consequently have been affected by the loss of their natural ecosystems. Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascilularis) in Southern Thailand have, however, learned to exploit oil palm nuts using stone tools. Using camera traps, we captured the stone tool behavior of one macaque group in Ao Phang-Nga National Park. Line transects placed throughout an abandoned oil palm plantation confirmed a high abundance of nut cracking sites. Long-tailed macaques previously have been observed using stone tools to harvest shellfish along the coasts of Thailand and Myanmar. The novel nut processing behavior indicates the successful transfer of existing lithic technology to a new food source. Such behavioral plasticity has been suggested to underlie cultural behavior in animals, suggesting that long-tailed macaques have potential to exhibit cultural tendencies. The use of tools to process oil palm nuts across multiple primate species allows direct comparisons between stone tool using nonhuman primates living in anthropogenic environments. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s10764-017-9985-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- 2017
13. Author response: Resource depletion through primate stone technology
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Tomos Proffitt, Amanda Tan, Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Lars Kulik, Michael D. Gumert, Lydia V. Luncz, and Michael Haslam
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biology ,Ecology ,biology.animal ,Primate ,Resource depletion - Published
- 2017
14. Resource depletion through primate stone technology
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Michael Haslam, Lars Kulik, Tomos Proffitt, Michael D. Gumert, Lydia V. Luncz, Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Amanda Tan, and School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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0106 biological sciences ,Male ,Conservation of Natural Resources ,QH301-705.5 ,Science ,Foraging ,Tool-assisted foraging ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Macaque ,Choice Behavior ,Stone Tool Use ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Predation ,Abundance (ecology) ,biology.animal ,parasitic diseases ,Animals ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Primate ,050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology ,14. Life underwater ,Primate stone technology ,Biology (General) ,Ecosystem ,Extinction ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,biology ,Tool Use Behavior ,Ecology ,National park ,General Neuroscience ,Population size ,05 social sciences ,General Medicine ,Feeding Behavior ,Thailand ,Macaca fascicularis ,shellfish ,Medicine ,Female ,Other ,Insight - Abstract
Tool use has allowed humans to become one of the most successful species. However, tool-assisted foraging has also pushed many of our prey species to extinction or endangerment, a technology-driven process thought to be uniquely human. Here, we demonstrate that tool-assisted foraging on shellfish by long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park, Thailand, reduces prey size and prey abundance, with more pronounced effects where the macaque population size is larger. We compared availability, sizes and maturation stages of shellfish between two adjacent islands inhabited by different-sized macaque populations and demonstrate potential effects on the prey reproductive biology. We provide evidence that once technological macaques reach a large enough group size, they enter a feedback loop – driving shellfish prey size down with attendant changes in the tool sizes used by the monkeys. If this pattern continues, prey populations could be reduced to a point where tool-assisted foraging is no longer beneficial to the macaques, which in return may lessen or extinguish the remarkable foraging technology employed by these primates. Published version
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- 2016
15. Complex processing of prickly pear cactus (Opuntia sp.) by free-ranging long-tailed macaques: preliminary analysis for hierarchical organisation
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Michael Haslam, Amanda Tan, Michael D. Gumert, Lydia V. Luncz, and Suchinda Malaivijitnond
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0106 biological sciences ,Old World ,Zoology ,Hierarchy, Social ,Biology ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Preliminary analysis ,Feeding behavior ,Cognition ,Botany ,Animals ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology ,Social Behavior ,Free ranging ,05 social sciences ,Opuntia ,food and beverages ,Feeding Behavior ,Prickly-pear Cactus ,Thailand ,Macaca fascicularis ,Animal ecology ,Fruit ,Cactus ,Animal Science and Zoology ,Introduced Species - Abstract
Complex food-processing techniques by gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans have allowed comparisons of complex hierarchical cognition between great apes and humans. Here, we analyse preliminary observations of free-ranging long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) (n = 3) in Thailand processing Opuntia sp. cactus fruits. From our observations, we suggest that there is potential to extend the analyses of hierarchical cognition to Old World monkeys. We found that the macaques used six behavioural sequences to obtain Opuntia fruits, remove irritant hairs from the skin of the fruits, and break open, and consume the fruits, each a unique combination of 17 action elements. Removing irritant hairs involved abrading fruits on a sand or rock substrate, and washing fruit in water. The behavioural sequences that macaques use to process Opuntia potentially show features of hierarchical organisation described in the leaf-processing behaviours of great apes. Our observations highlight the need for closer study of complex food-processing behaviour in monkeys to better understand the organisational capacities involved.
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- 2016
16. Archaeological excavation of wild macaque stone tools
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Tiago Falótico, Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Michael D. Gumert, Lydia V. Luncz, Michael Haslam, and Suchinda Malaivijitnond
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0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,Technology ,biology ,Tool Use Behavior ,Fossils ,Historical Article ,Excavation ,Thailand ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Archaeology ,Macaque ,03 medical and health sciences ,030104 developmental biology ,Geography ,Mining engineering ,Anthropology ,biology.animal ,Animals ,Macaca ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,History, Ancient - Abstract
More than 3 million years of excavated archaeological evidence underlies most major insights into the evolution of human behaviour. However, we have seen almost no use of archaeological excavation to similarly broaden our understanding of behaviour in other animal lineages. The few published examples include recovery of a late Holocene assemblage of stones from the Ivory Coast, attributed to the agency of both humans (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus), and exploration of the occupation sites of nontool-using species such as penguins and other birds. The development of viable methods for identifying and interpreting past non-human tool use landscapes is essential if we are to gain a better understanding of technological evolution within other animals, including our close relatives, the primates. Recently, the growth of primate archaeology has built on the close phylogenetic relationship between humans and other primates to begin filling in this lacuna. Here, we present thefirst report on an archaeologically excavated Old World monkey tool use site, which was created by wild Burmese long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea) during shellfish-processing activities in coastal Thailand. These macaques use stone and shell pounding tools to access a wide variety of coastal and inter-tidal resources, including shellfish, crabs and nuts, and previous work has demonstrated that use-wear on the stone tools permits reconstruction of past macaque activities (Haslam et al., 2013). Uncovering the history of this foraging behaviour opens up opportunities to study its evolution within the macaque lineage and, more broadly, to retrieve comparative data for researchers studying human and primate coastal exploitation.
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- 2016
17. How Living Near Humans Affects Singapore’s Urban Macaques
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Alexander S. DuVall-Lash, Michael D. Gumert, Crystal M. Riley, Bryan L. Koenig, Amy R. Klegarth, and Srikantan L. Jayasri
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0106 biological sciences ,biology ,Human–wildlife conflict ,05 social sciences ,Ethnoprimatology ,Provisioning ,Affect (psychology) ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Macaque ,Urban wildlife ,Geography ,biology.animal ,Human settlement ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology ,Socioeconomics ,Enforcement - Abstract
Long-tailed macaques commonly live near human settlements in Southeast Asia and Singapore is one example of such an interface. In 2011 and 2012, we conducted a census for Singapore’s National Parks Board (NParks), during which we collected behavioral, demographic, and ranging data. We used these data to examine how the presence of humans and access to human food related to changes in the macaques’ time budget, ranging behavior, and group size. We found that human presence was associated with decreased traveling rates, decreased arboreality, increased terrestriality, and increased use of human-made substrates. In particular, access to human food was associated with larger macaque group sizes, decreased arboreality, and increased use of human-made structures. Our results demonstrate how living near humans in an intensely urban habitat impacts macaques. Perhaps with better knowledge of how humans affect urban macaques, we can better plan management strategies to mitigate conflict. We discuss some nonlethal strategies for managing Singapore’s human–macaque interface that could potentially reduce human–macaque conflict. Specifically, we recommend consistent enforcement of an existing feeding ban, the employment of security guards to mitigate conflict in particularly problematic areas, and the expansion of existing education programs for local people and tourists.
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- 2016
18. Macaque-human interactions and the societal perceptions of macaques in Singapore
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Sharon Chan, Agustín Fuentes, Michael D. Gumert, Benjamin P. Y.-H. Lee, Lisa Jones-Engel, and John Chih Mun Sha
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Male ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Wildlife ,Context (language use) ,Macaque ,Article ,Feeding behavior ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,biology.animal ,Perception ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,media_common ,Behavior ,Singapore ,Behavior, Animal ,biology ,Aggression ,Social perception ,Feeding Behavior ,Macaca fascicularis ,Attitude ,Social Perception ,Animal Science and Zoology ,medicine.symptom ,Psychology ,Social psychology ,Demography - Abstract
Humans and long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) interface in several locations in Singapore. We investigated six of these interface zones to assess the level of conflict between the two species. We observed macaque-to-human interactions and distributed questionnaires to residents and visitors of nature reserves. We observed an average of two macaque-to-human interactions per hour at the sites, which included affiliative or submissive behaviors (46.9%), aggression (19.1%), taking food and other items (18.5%) searching bins, cars, and houses (13.4%), and nonaggressive contact (2.1%). Two-thirds of interactions occurred when a human was carrying food or food cues, and one-quarter occurred when a human provoked macaques. Only 8% of interactions occurred without a clear human-triggered context. Our interview showed one-third of respondents experienced nuisance problems from macaques. They had items taken from them (50.5%) and received threats (31.9%). Residents reported more nuisance problems than visitors, and their perceptions toward macaques differed. Residents were more aware of the consequences of food provisioning and that there were regulations against feeding. Residents fed macaques less and held more negative sentiments toward macaques. Nearly half of the interviewed people held neutral attitudes toward macaques and only 26.2% of respondents thought conflict with macaques warranted urgent action. Nearly two-thirds of the respondents supported education programs to ameliorate human-macaque conflict, and less than 15% supported removing or eradicating macaques. 87.6% felt that it is importance to conserve and protect macaques. Our results show that human-macaque conflict exists in Singapore, but that it may not be severe. Human behavior is largely responsible for macaque-to-human interactions, and thus could be lessened with management of human behavior in interface zones (i.e. restrict food carrying and provocation). Moreover, our interviews shows people living in Singapore value macaques, do not wish them entirely removed, prefer education-based solutions, and consider conservation and protection of them important.
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19. Status of the long-tailed macaque Macaca fascicularis in Singapore and implications for management
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Michael D. Gumert, Lisa Jones-Engel, John Chih Mun Sha, Sharon Chan, Benjamin P. Y.-H. Lee, Agustín Fuentes, and Subaraj Rajathurai
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Nature reserve ,education.field_of_study ,Ecology ,biology ,Population ,Wildlife ,Macaque ,Geography ,biology.animal ,Human settlement ,Wildlife management ,Mainland ,Socioeconomics ,education ,Recreation ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Nature and Landscape Conservation - Abstract
The long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) population of the island-state of Singapore consists of ca. 1,218–1,454 individuals. About seventy percent of the population (ca. 1,027 individuals) is concentrated in both Bukit Timah and Central Catchment Nature Reserves, a system of reservoirs and forest reserves located in the center of Singapore. This core population resides mainly along perimeter forest areas of the reserve system, which is bordered by residential and recreational areas (e.g., parks and golf courses) and encircled by expressways. Periphery sub-populations (ca. 427 individuals) persist in forest fragments throughout Singapore mainland and on 5 offshore islands. Much of the Singaporean macaque population overlaps with human settlement and these commensal groups are mainly distributed close to roads, parks and residential areas. At least 70% of these groups are habituated to human presence and at least 50% to food provisioning. Moreover, commensal groups have more individuals and have higher infant:adult female ratios than non-commensal groups. The close association of habituated macaque groups living in human environments has led to increasing human-macaque conflict in Singapore. The overlap is also associated with human-induced population loss resulting from road accidents (2.4%); and trapping efforts (14%) aimed at ameliorating conflict issues. Consequently, it is important to better understand how humans are affecting macaque populations. In order to mitigate human-macaque conflict and at the same maintain a sustainable macaque population in Singapore, there is an urgent need for wildlife management strategies aimed at minimizing the extent of human–macaque conflict. Such strategies should include designing appropriate buffers around reserve areas, revised urban development plans, and managing the behavior of people interfacing with macaques.
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- 2009
20. The trade balance of grooming and its coordination of reciprocation and tolerance in Indonesian long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis)
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Moon-Ho Ringo Ho and Michael D. Gumert
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Male ,Aggression ,fungi ,Biology ,Grooming ,Macaca fascicularis ,Long-tailed macaque ,Indonesia ,Animal ecology ,behavior and behavior mechanisms ,medicine ,Animals ,Female ,Animal Science and Zoology ,medicine.symptom ,Social Behavior ,human activities ,Social psychology ,psychological phenomena and processes ,Demography - Abstract
We collected data on grooming, proximity, and aggression in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in Kalimantan, Indonesia. We used this data to study how grooming influenced a receiver's (B) behavior towards the bout's initiator (A). In our first analysis, post-grooming samples were collected after A groomed B. These were compared to matched-control samples of similar conditions but A had not previously groomed B. This comparison was performed on 26 individuals (16 female, 3 male, 7 immature) and tested whether A's initial act of grooming increased the pair's time in proximity and the amount of time B groomed A. We also tested if A's grooming decreased B's aggression towards A per time in proximity. Rates of B--A aggression per time in proximity with A for 39 individuals (18 female, 5 male, 16 immature) were compared between post-grooming and focal sample data. Finally, we studied 248 grooming bouts to test if the first two grooming episodes were time matched. We assessed the influence of age, sex, rank and inferred kinship on time matching, and controlled for individual variation and tendency to groom using a general linear mixed model. Our results showed that A--B grooming acted to increase B--A grooming and the pair's proximity, while lowering B--A aggression. Despite these effects, episodes in grooming bouts were generally not matched, except weakly among similar partners (i.e., female pairs and immature pairs). Grooming imbalance was greatest across age-sex class (i.e., male-female and adult-immature pairs). In similar pairs, grooming duration was skewed in favor of high-ranking individuals. We conclude grooming established tolerance and increased the likelihood that grooming reciprocation would occur, but grooming durations were not typically matched within bouts. Lack of time matching may be the result of grooming that is performed to coordinate interchanges of other social services.
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- 2008
21. Payment for sex in a macaque mating market
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Michael D. Gumert
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biology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,fungi ,Fertility ,Sexual relationship ,Macaque ,Developmental psychology ,Sexually active ,Market theory ,biology.animal ,behavior and behavior mechanisms ,Social grooming ,Animal Science and Zoology ,Primate ,Mating ,human activities ,psychological phenomena and processes ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,media_common ,Demography - Abstract
In primate sexual relationships, males and females can cooperate through social trade. Market-like trading of sexual activity has been theorized, but no data have yet been presented that clearly show its existence. I collected data to test whether biological market theory could account for exchanges of male-to-female grooming and sexual activity in longtailed macaques. I explored male-to-female grooming, rates of sexual activity, and groomingemating interchanges, which were male-to-female grooming bouts that directly involved mating. Male-to-female grooming mainly occurred when females were sexually active, and males groomed females longer per bout when mating, inspection, or presentation of female hindquarters was involved. Moreover, male-to-female grooming was associated with an increase in female rates for all forms of sexual activity, where in contrast, female-to-male grooming was associated with decreased rates of mating in the groomed males. Males did not preferentially mate with swollen females or invest more grooming in them during groomingemating interchanges, as swellings did not seem to be a reliable indicator of female fertility. Rank status was correlated with grooming payment during groomingemating interchanges in favour of higher-ranked males and females. In support of a biological market interpretation, the amount of grooming a male performed on a female during groomingemating interchanges was related to the current supply of females around the interaction. The results provided evidence of a groomingemating trade that was influenced by a mating market.
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- 2007
22. Grooming and Infant Handling Interchange in Macaca fascicularis: The Relationship Between Infant Supply and Grooming Payment
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Michael D. Gumert
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Animal ecology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,fungi ,behavior and behavior mechanisms ,Social grooming ,Animal Science and Zoology ,Payment ,Psychology ,human activities ,psychological phenomena and processes ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,media_common ,Developmental psychology - Abstract
Female long-tailed macaques are attracted to infants and frequently groom mothers bearing them. Such grooming often involves the groomer contacting the infant and may be a trade of grooming for infant handling. To identify if grooming and infant handling are directly traded, I collected samples on times after female-to-mother grooming and on interactions in which a female groomed a mother and contacted her infant. I determined that grooming tended to promote an exchange with infant handling and that the supply of available infants was related to how long a female groomed a mother. Grooming interactions were longer when infants were scarce in the surrounding social environment than when they were abundant, indicating a possible supply-and-demand effect. This supports that grooming may be payment for infant handling. Grooming-infant handling interchanges tended to be unidirectional as mothers usually did not reciprocate grooming. Instead, infant contact occurred. A larger proportion of grooming-infant handling interchanges involved younger infants, but infant age did not seem to influence grooming durations. The length of female-to-mother grooming had no observable effect on handling time. Lower-ranked females groomed higher-ranked mothers and their infants longer than vice versa. Moreover, it was possible to predict up-rank grooming via supply and demand better than down-rank grooming. There was no observable influence of kinship on grooming-infant handling interchange. These results support the conclusion that grooming and infant handling may be traded. Grooming promoted infant handling, while supply and rank predicted the grooming payment a female would offer to access an infant.
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- 2007
23. Morphological characteristics and genetic diversity of Burmese long-tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea)
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Srichan, Bunlungsup, Hiroo, Imai, Yuzuru, Hamada, Michael D, Gumert, Aye Mi, San, and Suchinda, Malaivijitnond
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Macaca fascicularis aurea (Mfa) is the only macaque which has been recorded to use stone tools to access encased foods. They live in close contact with M. fascicularis fascicularis (Mff) in southwestern Thailand and the hybrids were reported [Fooden, 1995]. Although Mff and Mfa can be seen in the same habitat types, tool-use behavior has never been reported in Mff. Thus, comparing the morphological characteristics and genetics between Mfa and Mff should help elucidate not only the morphological differences and genetic divergence between these subspecies but also potentially the relationship between genetics and their tool use behavior. We surveyed Mfa and Mff in Myanmar and Thailand, ranging from 16° 58' to 7° 12' N. Fecal or blood samples were collected from eight, five, and four populations of Mfa, Mff, and Mff × Mfa morphological hybrids along with three individuals of captive Chinese M. mulatta (Mm), respectively, for mtDNA and Y-chromosome (TSPY and SRY genes) DNA sequence analyses. In addition, eight populations were captured and measured for 38 somatometric dimensions. Comparison of the somatic measurements revealed that Mfa had a statistically significantly shorter tail than Mff (P 0.05). Based on the mtDNA sequences, Mfa was separated from the Mm/Mff clade. Within the Mfa clade, the mainland Myanmar population was separate from the Mergui Archipelago and Thailand Andaman seacoast populations. All the morphological hybrids had the Mff mtDNA haplotype. Based on the Y-chromosome sequences, the three major clades of Mm/Indochinese Mff, Sundaic Mff, and Mfa were constructed. The hybrid populations grouped either with the Mm/Indochinese Mff or with the Mfa. Regarding the genetic analysis, one subspecies hybrid population in Thailand (KRI) elicited tool use behavior, thus the potential role of genetics in tool use behavior is raised in addition to the environmental force, morphological suitability, and cognitive capability. Am. J. Primatol. 78:441-455, 2016. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- 2015
24. Analysis of sea almond (Terminalia catappa ) cracking sites used by wild Burmese long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea )
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Tiago Falótico, Noemi Spagnoletti, Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Michael Haslam, Michael D. Gumert, and Lydia V. Luncz
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0106 biological sciences ,long-tailed macacques ,Intertidal zone ,Troglodytes ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Macaque ,stone tool use ,Burmese ,Open sea ,biology.animal ,Animals ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Primate ,050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Tool Use Behavior ,biology ,Ecology ,05 social sciences ,Terminalia ,Feeding Behavior ,Thailand ,biology.organism_classification ,language.human_language ,Macaca fascicularis ,stone hammers ,Taxon ,nut-cracking ,language ,Animal Science and Zoology - Abstract
Nut-cracking is shared by all non-human primate taxa that are known to habitually use percussive stone tools in the wild: robust capuchins (Sapajus spp.), western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus), and Burmese long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea). Despite opportunistically processing nuts, Burmese long-tailed macaques predominantly use stone tools to process mollusks in coastal environments. Here, we present the first comprehensive survey of sea almond (Terminalia catappa) nut-cracking sites created by macaques. We mapped T. catappa trees and nut-cracking sites that we encountered along the intertidal zone and forest border on the coasts of Piak Nam Yai Island, Thailand. For each nut-cracking site, we measured the physical properties (i.e., size, weight, use-wear) of hammer stones and anvils. We found that T. catappa trees and nut-cracking sites primarily occurred on the western coast facing the open sea, and cracking sites clusters around the trees. We confirmed previous results that nut cracking tools are among the heaviest tools used by long-tailed macaques; however, we found our sample of T. catappa stone tools lighter than a previously collected sea almond sample that, unlike our sample, was collected immediately after use within the intertidal zone. The difference was likely the result of tidal influences on tool-use sites. We also found that tool accumulations above the intertidal region do not resemble those within them, possibly leading to incomplete assessments of macaque stone tools through archaeological techniques that would use these durable sites.
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- 2017
25. Human activity negatively affects stone tool-using Burmese long-tailed macaques Macaca fascicularis aurea in Laem Son National Park, Thailand
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Yuzuru Hamada, Michael D. Gumert, Suchinda Malaivijitnond, and School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Stone tool ,education.field_of_study ,biology ,Ecology ,National park ,Range (biology) ,Population ,engineering.material ,Social sciences [DRNTU] ,biology.organism_classification ,Macaque ,Predation ,Canis ,Geography ,biology.animal ,engineering ,education ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Nature and Landscape Conservation ,Invertebrate - Abstract
Animal traditions can affect survival by improving how individuals use their environment. They are inherited through social learning and are restricted to small subpopulations. As a result, traditions are rare and their preservation needs to be considered in biodiversity conservation. We studied Burmese long-tailed macaquesMacaca fascicularis aurealiving on Piak Nam Yai Island in Laem Son National Park, Thailand, which maintain a rare stone tool-using tradition for processing hard-shelled invertebrate prey along the island's shores. We found the population had 192 individuals in nine groups and most individuals used stone tools. This population is under pressure from the local human community through the development of farms and release of domestic dogsCanis familiarisonto the island. The level of anthropogenic impact varied in each macaque groups' range and juvenile–infant composition varied with impact. The proportion of young was smaller in groups overlapping farms and was negatively correlated with the amount of dog activity in their range. We also found that coastal use by macaques was negatively related to living near plantations and that the dogs displaced macaques from the shores in 93% of their encounters. We conclude that human impact is negatively affecting Piak Nam Yai's macaques and are concerned this could disrupt the persistence of their stone-use tradition. we discuss the impact and the potential consequences, and we recommend better protection of coastal areas within Laem Son National Park.
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- 2013
26. Monkeys on the Edge : Ecology and Management of Long-Tailed Macaques and Their Interface with Humans
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Agustín Fuentes, Michael D. Gumert, Lisa Jones-Engel, Agustín Fuentes, Michael D. Gumert, and Lisa Jones-Engel
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- Kra, Ecology, Kra--Effect of human beings on, Kra--Ecology, Kra--Conservation, Conservation of natural resources
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Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) have a wide geographical distribution and extensively overlap with human societies across southeast Asia, regularly utilizing the edges of secondary forest and inhabiting numerous anthropogenic environments, including temple grounds, cities and farmlands. Yet despite their apparent ubiquity across the region, there are striking gaps in our understanding of long-tailed macaque population ecology. This timely volume, a key resource for primatologists, anthropologists and conservationists, underlines the urgent need for comprehensive population studies on common macaques. Providing the first detailed look at research on this underexplored species, it unveils what is currently known about the population of M. fascicularis, explores the contexts and consequences of human-macaque sympatry and discusses the innovative programs being initiated to resolve human-macaque conflict across Asia. Spread throughout the book are boxed case studies that supplement the chapters and give a valuable insight into specific field studies on wild M. fascicularis populations.
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- 2011
27. Marine prey processed with stone tools by Burmese long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea) in intertidal habitats
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Michael D. Gumert, Suchinda Malaivijitnond, and School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Monodonta labio ,Intertidal zone ,Thais bitubercularis ,Subspecies ,Predation ,Anthropology, Physical ,Nerita ,Animals ,Nuts ,Mollusca ,Arthropods ,Ecosystem ,Appetitive Behavior ,biology ,Tool Use Behavior ,Ecology ,Feeding Behavior ,biology.organism_classification ,Thailand ,Diet ,Macaca fascicularis ,Habitat ,Seafood ,Anthropology ,Anatomy - Abstract
Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) feed opportunistically in many habitats. The Burmese subspecies (M. f. aurea) inhabits coastal areas in southwestern Thailand and Myanmar, and some of their populations have adapted lithic customs for processing encased foods in intertidal habitats. We investigated the diet of such macaques in Laemson National Park, Thailand, and identified the variety of foods they processed with stones. We conducted 36 shore surveys to study tool sites following feeding activity, during which we counted the minimum number of individual (MNI) food items found at each site. We identified 47 food species (43 animals and four plants), from 37 genera. We counted 1,991 food items during surveys. Nearly all were mollusks (n = 1,924), with the small remainder primarily consisting of crustaceans and nuts. The two most common foods, rock oysters (Saccostrea cucullata; n = 1,062) and nerite snails (Nerita spp.; n = 538), composed 80.2% of our sample. Four prey species comprised 83.2% of the sample (MNI = 1,656), S. cucullata (n = 1,062), Nerita chamaeleon (n = 419), Thais bitubercularis (n = 95), and Monodonta labio (n = 80). Macaques selected a wide variety of foods. However, they heavily concentrated on those that were abundant, easy to access, and sufficiently sized. The Burmese long-tailed macaque stone-processed diet, which focuses on intertidal marine prey, differs from Sapajus and Pan, who use stones primarily for encased nuts and fruits. In terms of diversity of foods exploited, coastal stone-based predation by macaques resembles the diet of coastal-foraging humans (Homo sapiens sapiens). Am J Phys Anthropol, 2012.
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- 2012
28. Sex differences in the stone tool-use behavior of a wild population of burmese long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea)
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Michael D. Gumert, Low Kuan Hoong, and Suchinda Malaivijitnond
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Stone tool ,Male ,education.field_of_study ,biology ,Tool Use Behavior ,Significant difference ,Population ,Foraging ,Age Factors ,Zoology ,Feeding Behavior ,engineering.material ,Macaque ,Macaca fascicularis ,Sex Factors ,Bout duration ,biology.animal ,engineering ,Animals ,Animal Science and Zoology ,Female ,education ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics - Abstract
We investigated sex differences in how Burmese long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea) used stone tools to open shelled food items along the shores of two islands in Laemson National Park, Thailand. Over a 2-week period in December 2009, we collected scan and focal samples on macaques when they were visible along the shores and mangroves. We found females used stones more often while feeding and used smaller tools than males. Females also processed sessile oysters more than males, whereas males processed unattached foods more than females. It was unclear which sex was overall more proficient at stone tool use, but males did perform significantly better at opening unattached food items with large pounding stones. Females also struck food items more times during tool-use bouts and at a faster rate, but no significant difference was found in average tool-use bout duration. Males processed foods slightly faster within a tool-use bout, but we were unable to detect a significant difference in the rate of food processing while foraging with tools. In summary females chipped open sessile oysters with an axing technique more than males, while males used larger stones to pound open unattached shelled food more often than females. Despite using pounding more than females, males also regularly utilized the axing technique on sessile oysters. Our results are the first assessment of sex differences in macaque stone tool use, providing a basis for comparison with tool use in other primates, and to nonfunctional forms of stone use in other macaques. Am. J. Primatol. 73:1239–1249, 2011. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- 2011
29. The common monkey of Southeast Asia: Long-tailed macaque populations, ethnophoresy, and their occurrence in human environments
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Michael D. Gumert
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Long-tailed macaque ,Geography ,biology ,Ecology ,Zoology ,Tibetan macaque ,biology.organism_classification ,Population status ,Southeast asia - Published
- 2011
30. Future directions for research and conservation of long-tailed macaque populations
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Lisa Jones-Engel, Augstín Fuentes, Michael D. Gumert, and Gregory A. Engel
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education.field_of_study ,biology ,Ecology (disciplines) ,Ethnoprimatology ,Population ,Zoology ,EDGE species ,Generalist and specialist species ,Macaque ,Intraspecific competition ,Geography ,Evolutionary biology ,biology.animal ,Primate ,education - Abstract
Long-tailed macaques are an edge species, preferring to live along the forest borders of many habitat types (Gumert, Chapter 1). The result of this preference is that long-tailed macaques are adaptable generalists that are frequently found along the edges of human settlements across Southeast Asia. Another consequence is that long-tailed macaques can adjust quickly to living with other species, and thus have commonly expanded beyond the edge to overlap with humans in numerous contexts (see Part II). Due to the close association with humans, macaque populations can be powerfully impacted by human activity. In some cases they have been carried and introduced to areas beyond their normal range (see Part III). The overlap of macaques and humans, and the consequences of this overlap, needs to be better understood. While the basis of our relationship with long-tailed macaques is becoming apparent, much more research will be needed to fully understand their population and the causes and consequences of our interface with them. This chapter is an attempt to focus future research in a few important areas that will be necessary for better understanding the population, ecology, and synanthropic nature of long-tailed macaques. This chapter focuses on three subject areas that warrant special consideration for future scientific research on M. fascicularis : population-level research, the issue of ethnophoresy and introduced populations, and the causes and consequences of human-macaque overlap. Directions for population-level research Long-tailed macaques perhaps have the greatest amount of intraspecific variation of any primate species (Fooden, 2006).
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- 2011
31. Monkeys on the Edge
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Michael D Gumert
- Abstract
Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) have a wide geographical distribution and extensively overlap with human societies across southeast Asia, regularly utilizing the edges of secondary forest and inhabiting numerous anthropogenic environments, including temple grounds, cities and farmlands. Yet despite their apparent ubiquity across the region, there are striking gaps in our understanding of long-tailed macaque population ecology. This timely volume, a key resource for primatologists, anthropologists and conservationists, underlines the urgent need for comprehensive population studies on common macaques. Providing the first detailed look at research on this underexplored species, it unveils what is currently known about the population of M. fascicularis, explores the contexts and consequences of human-macaque sympatry and discusses the innovative programs being initiated to resolve human-macaque conflict across Asia. Spread throughout the book are boxed case studies that supplement the chapters and give a valuable insight into specific field studies on wild M. fascicularis populations.
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- 2011
32. Developing sustainable human–macaque communities
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Michael D. Gumert, Gregory A. Engel, Agustín Fuentes, and Lisa Jones-Engel
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Geography ,biology ,business.industry ,Population estimation ,biology.animal ,Environmental resource management ,Development economics ,Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution ,business ,Macaque ,Disease transmission ,Trapping methods - Published
- 2011
33. The support of conservation programs through the biomedical usage of long-tailed macaques in Mauritius
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Michael D. Gumert, Agustín Fuentes, Nada Padayatchy, and Lisa Jones-Engel
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Computer science ,business.industry ,Artificial intelligence ,business ,Data science - Published
- 2011
34. Dominance and Reciprocity in the Grooming Relationships of Female Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in Indonesia
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Michael D. Gumert
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biology ,biology.animal ,Zoology ,Sexual maturity ,Philopatry ,Psychology ,Macaque ,Reciprocity (evolution) - Abstract
It has been long known that females form the stable core of macaque societies (Bernstein and Sharpe 1966; Vandenbergh 1967; Drickamer 1976). They have strong relational ties and develop lifelong relationships with other females in their groups, thus they are considered to be female-bonded (Wrangham 1980). They have particularly close relationships with kin that are characterized by high levels of affiliation (Sade 1965; Drickamer 1976; Kurland 1977; Chapais 1983; Gouzoules and Gouzoules 1987; Kapsalis 2004; Silk 2006). This pattern results because females are philopatric and remain in their natal group for life, while males disperse and emigrate from their natal groups shortly after reaching sexual maturity (van Noordwijk and van Schaik 1985; Pusey and Packer 1987). Since female family lineages generally remain in the same location across generations, macaque groups are based on a cross-generational matrilineal social structure of closely related females. Macaque groups are typically multi-male/multi-female, and consist of several female matrilines (i.e., families), their young, and unrelated immigrant adult males that have migrated from neighboring communities and maintain transient relationships with the females until they emigrate again (de Ruiter and Geffen 1998). Due to the matrilineal structure of macaque societies, females must maintain long-term affiliative relationships with other females in their group. Consequently female cercopithecine primates, such as macaques, are equipped with adaptations for developing and maintaining close female-female bonds because females that can develop larger relationship networks tend to have higher fitness (Silk et al. 2003; Silk 2007).
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- 2009
35. The physical characteristics and usage patterns of stone axe and pounding hammers used by long-tailed macaques in the Andaman Sea region of Thailand
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Michael D. Gumert, Suchinda Malaivijitnond, and Marius Kluck
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Video recording ,Stone tool ,Tool Use Behavior ,Sapajus libidinosus ,Video Recording ,Observation ,engineering.material ,Hand ,Thailand ,Archaeology ,Choice Behavior ,law.invention ,Long-tailed macaque ,Macaca fascicularis ,Geography ,law ,engineering ,Animals ,Animal Science and Zoology ,Hammer ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics - Abstract
Stone hammering in natural conditions has been extensively investigated in chimpanzees and bearded capuchins. In contrast, knowledge of stone tool use in wild Old World monkeys has been limited to anecdotal reports, despite having known for over 120 years that Macaca fascicularis aurea use stone tools to process shelled foods from intertidal zones on islands in the Andaman Sea. Our report is the first scientific investigation to look at the stone tools used by these macaques. We observed they were skilled tool users and used stone tools daily. They selected tools with differing qualities for differing food items, and appeared to use at least two types of stone tools. Pounding hammers were used to crush shellfish and nuts on anvils and axe hammers were used to pick or chip at oysters attached to boulders or trees. We found significant physical differences between these two tools. Tools at oyster beds were smaller and exhibited scarring patterns focused more often on the points, whereas tools found at anvils were larger and showed more scarring on the broader surfaces. We also observed grip differences between the two tool types. Lastly, macaques struck targets with axe hammers more rapidly and over a wider range of motion than with pounding hammers. Both our behavioral and lithic data support that axe hammers might be used with greater control and precision than pounding hammers. Hand-sized axe hammers were used for controlled chipping to crack attached oysters, and larger pounding hammers were used to crush nuts and unattached shellfish on anvils. In addition to stones, they also used hand-sized auger shells (Turritella attenuata) as picks to axe attached oysters. Pound hammering appears similar to the stone tools used by chimpanzees and capuchins, but axe hammering has not yet been documented in other nonhuman primates in natural conditions. Am. J. Primatol. 71:594–608, 2009. © 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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- 2009
36. Use-Wear Patterns on Wild Macaque Stone Tools Reveal Their Behavioural History
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Dora Biro, Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Susana Carvalho, Michael Haslam, and Michael D. Gumert
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Science ,Zoology ,Social and Behavioral Sciences ,Macaque ,Archaeometry ,law.invention ,Behavioral Ecology ,03 medical and health sciences ,law ,biology.animal ,Animals ,Humans ,0601 history and archaeology ,Primate ,Animal behavior ,Hammer ,Animal species ,Biology ,030304 developmental biology ,Evolutionary Biology ,0303 health sciences ,Experimental Archaeology ,060101 anthropology ,Multidisciplinary ,Ecology ,Animal Behavior ,Behavior, Animal ,Geography ,Tool Use Behavior ,biology ,06 humanities and the arts ,Archaeology ,Paleoanthropology ,Macaca ,Medicine ,Research Article - Abstract
Burmese long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea) are one of a limited number of wild animal species to use stone tools, with their tool use focused on pounding shelled marine invertebrates foraged from intertidal habitats. These monkeys exhibit two main styles of tool use: axe hammering of oysters, and pound hammering of unattached encased foods. In this study, we examined macroscopic use-wear patterns on a sample of 60 wild macaque stone tools from Piak Nam Yai Island, Thailand, that had been collected following behavioural observation, in order to (i) quantify the wear patterns in terms of the types and distribution of use-damage on the stones, and (ii) develop a Use-Action Index (UAI) to differentiate axe hammers from pound hammers by wear patterns alone. We used the intensity of crushing damage on differing surface zones of the stones, as well as stone weight, to produce a UAI that had 92% concordance when compared to how the stones had been used by macaques, as observed independently prior to collection. Our study is the first to demonstrate that quantitative archaeological use-wear techniques can accurately reconstruct the behavioural histories of non-human primate stone tools.
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- 2013
37. Results of a nationwide census of the long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) population of singapore
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Riley, C. M., Jayasri, S. L., and Michael D Gumert
38. Mitochondrial D-LOOP variation and structure of two island populations of urban macaques (Macaca fascicularis)
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Klegarth, Amy R., Michael D Gumert, Riley, Crystal M., Srikantan, Jayasri, Meier, Rudolf, Jones-Engel, Lisa, Fuentes, Agustin, and Hollocher, Hope
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