eLife (Sep 2017)

Monkeys overharvest shellfish

  • George H Perry,
  • Brian F Codding

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30865
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6

Abstract

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The use of stone tools by macaques in Thailand has reduced the size and population density of coastal shellfish; previously it was thought that tool-assisted overharvesting effects resulted uniquely from human activity.

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