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Table 6.3. Comparison of activity budgets for Macaca fascicularis (from this
study, Fooden, 1995 , Gumert et al., 2009a )
Feed
Travel
Other
Bali (Padangtegal)
23%
12%
58%
Sumatra
15%
26%
59%
Mauritius
32%
4%
64%
Malaysia
35%
20%
45%
Kalimantan
13%
45%
42%
Bangladesh
39%
9%
53%
Singapore
43%
14%
43%
Table 6.4. Diet during Padangtegal dry season (June-August)
1999-2001 (11,761 feeding instances)
Provisioned
Non-provisioned
Sweet potato
28.9%
Banana
21.9%
Peanuts
12.4%
Papaya leaves
5.7%
Coconut
1%
2.8%
Invertebrates
7.5%
Forest vegetation
9%
Other
10.3%
sweet potatoes, papaya leaves, and various fruits and vegetables. Tourists visit-
ing the site primarily provided bananas and peanuts. It is clear that ongoing
study is needed to effectively document the annual dietary variation in these
macaques. It is also clear from monitoring the appearance of the individuals
that they were quite well fed.
The “other” category in Table 6.4 consists of temple offerings, chicken eggs
provided by temple staff, a few types of pre-packaged food provided by tour-
ists, and vertebrate animals (e.g., primarily infant squirrels, infant rats and
adult frogs). All the macaques in this population had sporadic access to rice,
a variety of flowers, cakes, chicken, and assorted fruits as these are frequently
the contents of offerings placed at the temples by the local Balinese. However,
amounts of offerings varied dramatically across ceremony and time and access
to offerings is generally mediated by dominance rank of the macaques. Once
a year the temple staff provided numerous eggs to the macaques as part of a
festival honoring the monkeys. Throughout the year temple staff occasion-
ally provided an egg or two to adult males as well. Although only seventeen
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