Biology Reference
In-Depth Information
Interviews
In order to get the feedback and perception from the college students, a ques-
tionnaire survey was conducted to find out whether the macaques had caused
any problem to them. One hundred students of the Burhanuddin Helmi
Residential College were interviewed and were given questionnaire regard-
ing nuisance problems caused by long-tailed macaques. We interviewed 100
students in Burhanuddin Helmi Residential College (KBH) about the opinion,
knowledge and attitudes towards long-tailed macaques. The majority of the
respondents were Malays (75 percent), followed by Chinese (15 percent) and
Indians (10 percent). Female students represented the highest percentage of
the respondents as their residence is where the most nuisance problems from
long-tailed macaque occurred.
Results
Population survey
In this study, eight groups of
M. fascicularis
were identified at eight different
sites mostly in the area of student residential colleges (
Table 4.2
). The home
ranges of some of the groups overlap with each another.
Table 4.2
presents the
total number of individuals in each group. Group eight, located at Perumahan
Bukit Puteri (i.e, staff quarters) had the highest number of individuals, which
was approximately 100. The second highest total number was recorded in
group one at the Law faculty (55-65 individuals) and followed by group three
(50-60 individuals) at Ibrahim Yaakob Residential College. Group six at Ibu
Zain Residential College (45 individuals) had a unique characteristic as one
Dusky leaf monkey (
Trachypithecus obscurus
) was seen to join the group.
No agonistic interaction was recorded between them. Group two, located in
Burhanuddin Helmi Residential College, was the main focus group for our
human-macaque conflict behavior study and consisted of 36-42 individuals.
During observation, one
M. nemestrina
was seen to search for food in the same
area of group two. Some agonistic interactions occurred between members of
M. fascicularis
and the
M. nemestrina
. Meanwhile, in this survey, the small-
est group was group four, at Aminuddin Baki Residential College, with only
18-27 individuals.
