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Of pig-tails and palm oil: How rat-eating macaques increase oil palm sustainability

African oil palm is the world's most efficient oil crop yielding 5-10 times more oil per hectare than other oil crops. However, the establishment of large monocultures has driven deforestation and habitat loss for local wildlife in producer countries. Malaysia supplies ca. 30% for the... click to read more

Nadine Ruppert | Senior Lecturer at School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

Anna Holzner | PhD student at School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia; Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig; Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

Anja Widdig | Group leader at Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig; Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig; German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Leipzig

sustainable palm oil

Macaca nemestrina

Southern pig-tailed macaques

biological pest control

Malaysia

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Jun 19, 2020