Seasonal variations in the activity budget of Japanese macaques in the coniferous forest of Yakushima: Effects of food and temperature

Hanya, Goro

doi:10.1002/ajp.20049

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“…Habitat quality affects food availability and primates respond variably to changes in food availability [Defler, 1995;Li & Rogers, 2004]. In the wild, Japanese macaques decrease traveling and feeding time when temperature decreases, but when food is abundant, food distribution and feeding speed increase while time spent feeding and traveling decreases [Hanya, 2004]. Feeding is considered to have priority over all nonessential activities.…”

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“…Our understanding about the dynamics of Japanese macaques' activity budgets comes from free-ranging provisioned and nonprovisioned populations [Hanya, 2004;Maruhashi, 1981;Watanuki & Nakayama, 1993]. Controlled experiments (or manipulations) are an ideal method for deciphering how specific mechanisms affect behavior, but rigorous controls are often impossible under natural conditions.…”

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Enclosure environment affects the activity budgets of captive Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)

Jaman

Huffman

2008

American J Primatol

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Individuals adapt to changes in their environment, such as food availability and temperature, by adjusting the amount of time spent in different behavioral activities. These adjustments in behavior should vary across age-sex class according to specific physiological and social needs. We studied the activity budgets of three social Japanese macaque groups inhabiting either vegetated or nonvegetated enclosures in order to compare the effects of access with vegetation, as both food and substrate on resting, feeding, grooming and moving activities over a 12-month period. Daily access to natural foods for monkeys in the vegetated enclosure seems to be largely responsible for the differences in daily time budgets of these three groups. Resting time in all three groups was longer than the time devoted to other activities. Resting and moving time in the two nonvegetated enclosures was significantly longer than in the vegetated enclosure. In contrast, feeding and grooming time was significantly longer in the vegetated enclosure. Seasonal variation in time spent feeding, resting and grooming was significantly effected by enclosure type. In all three enclosures, immatures, particularly females, spent more time feeding and moving, whereas adults spent more time resting. Significant monthly variation in time spent by age-sex class was noted only for feeding and resting. Interestingly, in the vegetated enclosure, time spent feeding on natural vegetation was equal to the amount of time spent feeding on provisioned food. This suggests that factors other than energetic and nutritional needs may be important determinants of the activity budget of the species. These results have important implications for the enrichment of captive primates and our understanding of the maintenance of activity patterns by primates in the wild.

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Enclosure environment affects the activity budgets of captive Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)

Jaman

Huffman

2008

American J Primatol

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“…In natural habitats, the availability of food and its distribution are subject to seasonal variation [Ganguly et al, 1964;Ding and Zhao, 2004;Riley, 2007]. Therefore, pri-mates regulate their activities according to seasonal changes in food availability [Mé-nard and Vallet, 1997;Hanya, 2004;Riley, 2007]. In human-altered environments, the influence of seasonality on primate activity is reduced in the presence of human foods [Fa, 1986;Sha and Hanya, 2013b].…”

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Effect of Provisioning on the Temporal Variation in the Activity Budget of Urban Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in West Sumatra, Indonesia

Ilham

Rizaldi

Nurdin

et al. 2018

IJFP

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We studied the behavioral ecology of provisioned long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, to examine how temporal changes in food provisioning within a day affect macaque activity. We conducted a field survey from October 2015 to January 2016 at two different sites: Gunung Meru (GM) and Gunung Padang (GP), where macaques receive high and low provisioning, respectively. The time budgets of macaques significantly differed between study groups. At GM, macaques spent more time resting, feeding, acting out agonistic behaviors, and less time moving and searching for food, than the macaques at GP. Diurnal activity patterns significantly changed within a day. The short-term change in activity of the macaques was closely related to the number of tourists: they spent a greater time feeding and searching when more tourists came to feed the monkeys, while time for grooming decreased. Our result showed that the ability of the macaques to adjust their activity in response to the number of tourists (that is, provisioning patterns) indicated their behavioral flexibility. Our result may aid the management strategies to reduce human-macaque conflicts, which has become a major problem in Padang.

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“…Diurnal primates must budget their daylight hours in order to complete necessary activities. Factors influencing primate activity budgets are mainly confined to the distribution and abundance of food resources [Clutton-Brock, 1974;Watts, 1988;Zhou et al, 2007] as well as variation in the ambient environment [Hanya, 2004].…”

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Differences in the Activity Budgets of Yunnan Snub-Nosed Monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti) by Age-Sex Class at Xiangguqing in Baimaxueshan Nature Reserve, China

Li¹,

Li²,

Bao-ping³

et al. 2015

IJFP

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The activity budgets of primates reflect their survival strategy. Despite existing data on the activity budgets of Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti), little is known about how activity budgets vary between age-sex classes. This study provides the first detailed activity budgets subdivided by age-sex class, based on observations of the largest habituated group of R. bieti at Xiangguqing in Baimaxueshan Nature Reserve. This study was conducted from June 2008 to May 2009. We found that adult females spent more time feeding (44.8%) than adult males (39.5%), juveniles (39.1%) and infants (14.2%). Females allocated significantly more time to feeding than to any other activity. Adult males allocated more time to miscellaneous activities (12.5%) than adult females (3.8%). Juveniles allocated less time to grooming than adults. Infants were being groomed 6.9% of the time, the highest proportion among all age-sex classes. Adults spent more time feeding, while immature individuals allocated more time to moving and other activities. There are several reasons why activity budgets can vary by age-sex class: (1) differential reproductive investment between males and females; (2) developmental differences among the age categories, and (3) social relationships between members of different age-sex classes, particularly dominance. These variations in activity budgets among the different age-sex classes may become a selective pressure in this species.

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Seasonal variations in the activity budget of Japanese macaques in the coniferous forest of Yakushima: Effects of food and temperature

Cited by 161 publications

References 31 publications

Enclosure environment affects the activity budgets of captive Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)

Enclosure environment affects the activity budgets of captive Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)

Effect of Provisioning on the Temporal Variation in the Activity Budget of Urban Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in West Sumatra, Indonesia

Differences in the Activity Budgets of Yunnan Snub-Nosed Monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti) by Age-Sex Class at Xiangguqing in Baimaxueshan Nature Reserve, China

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