What 94 Farms Reveal About Living With Endangered Macaques

The Barbary macaque is an endangered primate native to North Africa, and researchers studying it have a practical question: how bad is the conflict with the people farming nearby? In recently published research, colleagues surveyed 94 farms to gauge the severity of farmer-macaque conflict, the crops most affected, when crop-foraging occurs, the deterrents farmers use, and which farm and landscape characteristics go with frequent crop-foraging.