Serendipitous discovery of white-cheeked macaque (Macaca leucogenys) from Arunachal Pradesh, India

Q4 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Animal Gene Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1016/j.angen.2022.200124

Avijit Ghosh , Supriyo Dalui , Tanoy Mukherjee , Bheem Dutt Joshi , Sujeet Kumar Singh , Gopinathan Maheswaran , Lalit Kumar Sharma , Kailash Chandra , Mukesh Thakur

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Abstract

Two most recently described macaque species; the white-cheeked macaque (Macaca leucogenys) and Arunachal macaque (Macaca munzala) were discovered from a single biodiversity hotspot, the Eastern Himalaya. We conducted surveys in the West Siang, Arunachal Pradesh, India and collected five faeces and two skin samples of macaques that on DNA analysis identified as white cheeked macaques. Subsequently, we undertook intensive field surveys and successfully captured white cheeked macaques in camera traps as well as found a captive juvenile individual during questionnaires from the same region. We report white-cheeked macaque from West Siang about 197 km away from China. Unfortunately, white-cheeked macaque has not been yet included in the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 of India and therefore, the present study laid foundation to promote field studies in Central Arunachal Pradesh to delineate distribution boundary and population size of white-cheeked macaque in Arunachal Pradesh.

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在印度**偶然发现的白颊猕猴

最近发现的两种猕猴;白颊猕猴(Macaca leucogenys)和**猕猴(Macaca munzala)是在东喜马拉雅地区一个生物多样性热点地区发现的。我们在印度**的西祥进行了调查，收集了5只猕猴的粪便和2只猕猴的皮肤样本，经DNA分析鉴定为白颊猕猴。随后，我们进行了密集的实地调查，并成功地在相机陷阱中捕获了白颊猕猴，并在同一地区的问卷调查中发现了一只圈养的幼猴。我们在距离中国约197公里的西江报道了白颊猕猴。遗憾的是，白颊猕猴尚未被纳入印度1972年野生动物(保护)法案，因此，本研究为促进在**中部的实地研究奠定了基础，以划定白颊猕猴在**的分布边界和种群规模。

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