Open AccessThe Daily Activity of Long Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis Raffles) in Cikakak Tourist Resort Wangon Banyumas (a Conservation Effort)
Author(s) -
Erie Kolya Nasution,
Siti Rukayah
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/593/1/012004
Subject(s) - evening , morning , syzygium , macaque , biology , geography , ecology , botany , physics , astronomy
This research aimed to record the daily activity of long-tail macaques ( Macaca fascicularis Raffles) in Cikakak Tourist Resort Wangon. The daily activity of monkey was taken by the Scan Sampling method, and their moving behavior was observed with the Chivers method by following them from the time they began to wake up to they started to sleep. The Path method was applied to observe plant varieties they ate. Based on the observation, it was found that the long-tailed macaques have consumed 64 plant types (35 families) consisting of 21 trees, 33 shoots, and 24 buds. Syzygium polyanthum and Ficus sp were the dominant plants in the area. The macaque activities mostly performed in the morning, while in the evening, they seemed to take a rest.