Updates On 16th Jun 2014

Over the past 7 months, the Macaque Team has been working very closely with Amy Klegarth, a primate researcher working on her PH.D at the University of Notre Dame. 6 macaques from different troops around Singapore were GPS collared. The data gathered showed the distribution range of the individual troops of macaques. These data have assisted us in identifying the areas of high human-macaque interaction, thus allowing us to address the root of each problem and providing accurate advices and effective solutions to residents/park users.

Rising before sunrise and at times, waiting till the macaques go to sleep, here’s her take on her studies:

” I love studying monkeys in highly developed regions where there is a high interface with humans and applying my work to reducing conflict between those two groups. My work has a strong focus on applications to management and as such I work closely with local governments and wildlife managers at both of my field sites in Singapore and Gibraltar.

My focus is on landscape genetics and ranging patterns – looking at how the urban landscape promotes or prevents movement of individuals between groups and how this landscape impacts their behavior and degrees of conflict with humans. “

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