Population Status And Behaviors Of Rhesus Monkey (Macacca Mulatta) In Ayubia National Park, Abbottabad Pakistan
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2016-08
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Taimur
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Change is a prominent feature of living organism that necessitates periodic status assessment of such organism for appropriate and strategic managements. Population study was carried out to asses the population status as well as the general behaviors of Macaca mulata in Ayubia National Park. This study also aimed to evaluate the distribution of Rhesus monkey in the study area. Population and behavioral data of the monkeys were collected from Ayubia National Park (latitude 34o 00/48// to 34o 06/23// N and longitude 73 022/54// to 73 027 /15// E) which covers 33 square kilometers. Data for this study was collected using reconnaissance survey and scan sampling while the secondary data was obtained from the Department of Wildlife, Abbottabad, Pakistan. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, autocorrelation, covariance and contingence analysis. A total of 1744 Macaca mulatta individuals were observed, which were composed of infants (10%), juveniles (46%), adult females (29%) and adult males (15%). About 170 groups were observed during data collection at an average of 5 groups per day from June to October 2013. The ratio of females to males for June to October 2013 as compared to the data collected in 2007 showed a positive population rate in the study area. The group organization composed of Alpha male female, Beta male and female, Juvenile and Infant. In these groups different social behavior of Macaca mulatta were established while social contact, playing, fighting, reconciliation, aggression and
grooming were the common group behaviors. These behaviors were found unstable because just as been established elsewhere, the behavioral changeability is apparent. Masturbation were also observed and it was found that the mating system of Macaca mulatta is polygamous. Population changes in the study area could therefore described in term of structure, sex, weather and time. These are the components of the eight types of spatio-temporal object changes which could result into aggregate changes in the population.
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The population status as well as the general behaviors of , Macaca mulata in Ayubia National Park.