Consistent Individual Differences Drive Collective Movements in a Tibetan Macaque Group [PDF]
AnimalsCollective movement has emerged as a key area of interest in animal behavior. While individual differences are often viewed as a potential threat to group cohesion, growing evidence suggests that these differences can actually influence an animal’s ...
Sen Ren +10 more
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Video‐Sound Recording Devices Reveal Multiple Drivers of Nocturnal Vocalizations in Tibetan Macaques [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionNocturnal vocalizations not only reflect communications at night, but also reveal adaptive strategies of animals. Previous research focused on the vocalizations of nocturnal species, with little attention to nocturnal vocalizations in diurnal animals ...
Xin Gao +10 more
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The Food Niche Overlap and Interspecific Relationship between the Sympatric Tibetan Macaque and Grey Snub-Nosed Monkey [PDF]
Animals, 2023 Assessing the trophic niche and interspecific relationships between related species and determining how the species maintain differences in nutritional niches while coexisting in the same area are important topics in ecological research.
Li Yue +6 more
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Genomics Insights Into High‐Latitude Adaptation of Tibetan Macaques [PDF]
Advanced ScienceFew nonhuman primates inhabit high‐latitude regions that pose significant adaptive challenges. The Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana) represents a rare primate species entirely distributed north of the Tropic of Cancer.
Rusong Zhang +12 more
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TMacaque-FaceNet: Automatic Facial Recognition Based on Vision Transformer for Wild Tibetan Macaques [PDF]
AnimalsWithin the framework of behavioral ecology and conservation, individual recognition plays a critical role in the research on wild social animals at the individual level.
Qiyang Gao +4 more
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The prospect of rising in rank is key to long-term stability in Tibetan macaque society [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 One of the most fundamental questions in behavioural biology is why societies can persist for a long period of time. While researchers in animal behaviour have been hindered by a lack of an aggregate measure (such as social mobility) to quantify the ...
Lixing Sun +4 more
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Ecotourism Disturbance on an Endemic Endangered Primate in the Huangshan Man and the Biosphere Reserve of China: A Way to Move Forward [PDF]
Biology, 2022 The primary purpose of the Man and the Biosphere Program is the sustainable development of both the economy and nature conservation activities. Although the effectiveness of eco-tourism to reach this goal has been proposed, due to the lack of long-term ...
Wen-Bo Li +5 more
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Impact of Human Activities and Climate Change on Chinese Forest Musk Deer (Moschus berezovskii) [PDF]
BiologyHuman activities and climate change are influencing the survival and distribution of species, threatening the current distribution pattern of biodiversity and potentially leading to the “sixth mass extinction.” The forest musk deer (Moschus berezovskii ...
Du Xu +5 more
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Gut microbiome is associated with personality traits of free-ranging Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana) [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyRecent studies have emphasized that there is a strong link between the gut microbiome and the brain that affects social behavior and personality in animals. However, the interface between personality and the gut microbiome in wild primates remains poorly
Mengyi Xia +17 more
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A Genomic Method for Combating Wildlife Trafficking: SNP-Based Traceability of Four Endangered Species in China [PDF]
AnimalsWildlife trafficking poses a severe threat to global biodiversity and ecosystem stability, necessitating robust forensic tools for tracing the origins of illegally traded taxa.
Jilai Zhao +5 more
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