Diet Composition of the Wild Stump-Tailed Macaque(Macaca arctoides) in Perlis State Park, Peninsular Malaysia, Using a Chloroplast tRNL DNA Metabarcoding Approach: A Preliminary Study

• Main Authors: Nur Azimah, Osman, Muhammad Abu Bakar, Abdul Latiff, Mohd Ridwan, Abd Rahman, Salmah, Yaakop, Shukor, Md Nor, Badrul Munir, Md Zain
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI 2020
• Subjects: Q Science (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/33158/1/Diet%20Composition%20of%20the%20Wild%20Stump-Tailed%20Macaque%28Macaca%20arctoides%29%20in%20Perlis%20State%20Park%2C%20PeninsularMalaysia%2C%20Using%20a%20Chloroplast%20tRNL%20DNAMetabarcoding%20Approach%20A%20Preliminary%20Study_pdf.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/33158/; https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/10/12/2215

Understanding dietary diversity is a fundamental task in the study of stump-tailed macaque, Macaca arctoides in its natural habitat. However, direct feeding observation and morphological identification using fecal samples are not effective and nearly impossible to obtain in natural habitats because...