INVESTIGADORES
DI BITETTI Mario Santiago
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Why do monkeys bark-strip trees in forest plantations?
Autor/es:
DI BITETTI, M. S.
Lugar:
Pretoria
Reunión:
Seminario; Forest Health & Wildlife: behaviour and effect of forest-damaging mammals; 2024
Institución organizadora:
FISNA - University of Pretoria, South Africa
Resumen:
Some mammal species bark-strip trees causing damage to plantations, which can lead to significant economic losses. Primates in tropical and subtropical regions are particularly problematic because they bark-strip trees in plantations, creating a wildlife-human conflict of difficult solution. In this presentation I review the global patterns of bark-stripping trees by primates in plantations, I review the main measures that have been used or proposed to mitigate this conflict and the hypotheses that have been suggested to explain this primate behaviour. I present a new hypothesis for why capuchin monkeys (Sapajus nigritus) bark-strip pines (Pinus sp.) in plantations based on optimal foraging theory. We are currently testing this hypothesis in Misiones Argentina. I describe this new hypothesis and its predictions. Preliminary results of our research, aimed at testing this hypothesis and a potential solution to this conflict, will be presented by the next panelist (Valentín Zárate).
