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INTRODUCTION

Background

Long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) are animals that


highly adaptive, able to adapt to the variety of habitats. adaptability
This high often lead them into conflict with humans.
Conflict often occurs when long-tailed monkeys living close to humans
due to the competing and overlapping requirements between the two.
The conflict between human-wildlife occurs when human action
detrimental to wildlife, or vice versa (Conover, 2002). Wild animal
cause harm to humans when they attacked farmland,
land animal, or food storage. Human-wildlife conflict
also happens when humans perform actions that cause harm to
wildlife, such as wildlife habitat altered for the sake of man.
Conflict can be caused by damaged or narrowing of wildlife habitat
wild due to the activity of clearing forests and land conversion. Opportunities conflict becomes more
Great with the increasing human population growth has implications
in increasing wildlife habitat conversion into residential areas,
plantation, agriculture, and other land use (Widiatmoko, 2013).
Menoreh Mountains in Kulon Progo Regency has long been
long-tailed monkey habitat. Some locations in the mountains can Menoreh
encountered long-tailed monkey population who often have problems with
communities such as in Sub Samigaluh, namely Hamlet Village Keceme
Gerbosari (Subenuh, 2003), and Village Sidoharjo (Herlan, 2001; Fahmi, 2001).
The population of long-tailed monkeys has been since the 1960s known
community (Fahmi, 2001). Long-tailed monkeys also attacked farmland
Girimulyo community property in the District, District Kalibawang, and
Kokap (BKSDA, 2012).
Damage to agricultural crops is a general loss
occurs because of an attack by long-tailed monkeys. Losses as a result of this conflict
make people think of the monkeys as pests. In Gunung farmers
to patrol to keep agricultural crops from attack-tailed macaque
Long (Susmayanti, 2014). Long-tailed monkey attacks has also been
coped with the arrest by Bedouins but the attempt failed because
some time later this animal appears again (Mulyadi, 2011). other efforts
done by installing nets at the edges of fields to prevent
long-tailed monkeys entering and damaging crops (Sulistiyawan, 2015),
scare with firecrackers rang (Hidayat and Daru, 2015),
ring a gong sound or other megaphone (Setiawan and Daru,
2014). In addition, the handling is also done by planting fruit trees
about habitat long-tailed macaques (Setiawan and Daru, 2014), also giving fruit
with the aim of long-tailed monkeys do not invade farmland
(Sutarmi, 2014).

Purpose

This study aims to know the behavior of monkeys being aggresssive in it’s live of the day

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