Among the dead were protected creatures such as a red-crowned crane, four stump-tailed macaques and a brown bear.
Researchers observing female Barbary macaques found that "middle hierarchy" monkeys experienced the most stress.
Similarly, the macaques are invariably protective of -- and competitive with -- their young.
Silver leaf monkeys and troupes of macaques are also common sightings in this forest.
At the same time, 28 other macaques were exposed to the virus but not the vaccine.
But his cells came from macaques, not humans, and his technique involves destroying the embryo.
The macaques are critically endangered, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Thus facial symmetry really does appear to be an indicator of health, at least among macaques.
Researchers in Liverpool and Manchester observed female Barbary macaques for almost 600 hours, recording all incidences of social behaviour.
The trust already has a project in Sulawesi called Selamatkan Yaki - the macaques are known locally as Yaki.
But other primates such as macaques can still be used - a point on which the Commission was overruled by MEPs.
In addition to dragons, these islands are also a rich refuge for buffalo, monkeys and wild horses, civets, cockatoo and macaques.
They can also shoo away one of the many macaques that are not too shy to steal food directly from the landing klotoks.
The Sulawesi crested macaques are one of seven species of macaque on the Indonesian island which are found nowhere else in the world.
As I climb off the boat, a pair of long-tailed macaques, whom I assume are on the payroll, rove the cliff face, sampling white flowers.
If they perceive you are giving them too much attention (or food, again), other macaques may snarl or hiss at you, sometimes even attacking.
The researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the Magee-Womens Research Institute took samples of the stem cells from macaques and stored them in a freezer.
As his boat drifts through a hidden lagoon on the uninhabited island of Ko Hong, he cocks his head to listen to a family of macaques chattering among the mangroves.
They categorised facial dimensions such as the distance between the eyes, then recorded the electrical activity of one brain cell at a time while they showed cartoons to the macaques.
The researchers tried this three-stage vaccine on rhesus macaques.
Previous studies with macaques have demonstrated that the animals will gaze longer at symmetrical faces than they do at asymmetric ones, which could be interpreted as the monkeys finding such faces more attractive.
Dr Tung and Dr Gilad took 49 middle-ranking female macaques (females were chosen because a lot of previous work on animal hierarchies has been done on female macaques) and split them into groups of four or five.
Among the rental items: a two-meter-long snake, an orangutan and some lizards and tarantulas. (The island is home to such creatures as pythons, macaques and fruit bats.) While the castaways need to be mentally and physically fit, wilderness experience isn't a must.
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