The forbidden fruit: toque macaques (Macaca sinica) feeding on invasive pond apple (Annona glabra) in Sri Lankan mangroves
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Stefanie M. Rog
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Pablo Sinovas
Abstract
This is the first documented instance of Sri Lanka’s endemic Macaca sinica (toque macaque) foraging on invasive Annona glabra (pond apple). We observed a troop of toque macaques (∼15) consuming A. glabra in a mangrove forest in Negombo lagoon in western Sri Lanka. This behaviour highlights the need to understand species interactions in the design of effective invasive species interventions for mangrove management.
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Research ethics: Not applicable.
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Author contributions: The authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
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Competing interests: The authors state no conflict of interest.
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Research funding: None declared.
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- Biogeography
- Current distribution of the Reeves’ muntjac Muntiacus reevesi (Ogilby, 1839) in France
- Climate change impacts on the distribution of Dryomys laniger (woolly dormouse) in Türkiye: a data-driven approach
- First record of the grand leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros grandis (Hipposideridae), from Bangladesh
- Rediscovery of the Bavarian pine vole (Microtus bavaricus) in Germany
- Southernmost occurrence of Cuniculus paca (Rodentia, Cuniculidae): new Argentinean localities based on vouchers
- New findings on the karyotype and distribution of two Rhipidomys Tschudi, 1845 species (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) from Upper Purus River
- Physiology
- Reproductive physiology of Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) in Pothwar Plateau, Pakistan
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetic analysis brings evidence of the sexual selection hypothesis for an infanticide event in giant armadillos (Priodontes maximus)
- Taxonomy/Phylogeny
- Three small species of shrews (Soricidae) from the Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo, representing two new taxa and a new record
- Molecular analysis reveals the evolutionary distinctiveness of the Silver-backed Chevrotain within the genus Tragulus
- Museology/History of Science
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Ecology
- Novel insights into red deer (Cervus elaphus) habitat use and suitability in human-dominated versus near-natural landscapes
- Effect of conifer afforestation on the occurrence and food availability for Zaedyus pichiy (Xenarthra: Chlamyphoridae) in the north-western Patagonian steppe of Argentina
- Effect of seasonal variation on feeding and food preference of olive baboons (Papio anubis) in a protected Guinean savannah of West Africa
- Noteworthy records of survival, longevity, and recruitment in a key area for jaguars in Western Mexico
- The forbidden fruit: toque macaques (Macaca sinica) feeding on invasive pond apple (Annona glabra) in Sri Lankan mangroves
- Electrocutions as an important cause of mortality for a mesocarnivore
- Eurasian red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) and mesocarnivores in a Mongolian protected area
- Materials of garden dormouse summer nests in Germany
- Increase in the frequency of melanism in Abert’s Squirrel in Boulder, Colorado
- The importance of rodents to a specialist carnivore in an industrialized site
- A stranding of pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata) near Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico confirms the presence of the species in the Mexican Caribbean
- First report of a leucistic Brown Agouti (Dasyprocta variegata) in Bolivia
- Predation of Natalus macrourus (Chiroptera: Natalidae) by Trachops cirrhosus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in a ferriferous Brazilian Amazon cave
- Biogeography
- Current distribution of the Reeves’ muntjac Muntiacus reevesi (Ogilby, 1839) in France
- Climate change impacts on the distribution of Dryomys laniger (woolly dormouse) in Türkiye: a data-driven approach
- First record of the grand leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros grandis (Hipposideridae), from Bangladesh
- Rediscovery of the Bavarian pine vole (Microtus bavaricus) in Germany
- Southernmost occurrence of Cuniculus paca (Rodentia, Cuniculidae): new Argentinean localities based on vouchers
- New findings on the karyotype and distribution of two Rhipidomys Tschudi, 1845 species (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) from Upper Purus River
- Physiology
- Reproductive physiology of Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) in Pothwar Plateau, Pakistan
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetic analysis brings evidence of the sexual selection hypothesis for an infanticide event in giant armadillos (Priodontes maximus)
- Taxonomy/Phylogeny
- Three small species of shrews (Soricidae) from the Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo, representing two new taxa and a new record
- Molecular analysis reveals the evolutionary distinctiveness of the Silver-backed Chevrotain within the genus Tragulus
- Museology/History of Science
- The names of the Dusky Striped Squirrel (Funambulus obscurus, Sciuridae) and Kathleen Ryley in the Bombay Natural History Society’s Mammal Survey
