The Habitat Expert Series webforum, A Future for Primates in Malaysia, organized with the Malaysian Primatological Society (MPS) on 28 July 2020 provided a timely platform to discuss steps that can be taken to address the declining status of Malaysia's primate species. Malaysia is blessed with 26 species of primates, the second highest number in an Asian country after Indonesia. This is an honour that few Malaysians are aware of. The reclassification of many of these species and Endangered in the latest assesment of the … [Read more...] about A Future for Primates in Malaysia
Southern pig-tailed macaques
Macaca Nemestrina Project
THF Research Grant Macaca Nemestrina Project is a long-term behavioural and ecological study of Southern pig-tailed macaques which has been conducted near the Segari Melintang Forest Reserve (SMFR), Perak, Peninsular Malaysia since 2013. Here, two groups of habituated macaques, numbering approximately 80 individuals move between the forest reserve and the oil palm plantations bordering its South-Western edge. Researchers supervised by Dr Nadine Ruppert of the School of Biological Sciences at Universiti Sains Malaysia are … [Read more...] about Macaca Nemestrina Project
