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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Ecotourism Driving Tibetan Monkeys to Infanticide


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A Tibetan macaque nurses an infant at a Chinese nature reserve in Sichuan Province. A similar reserve in China's Anhui Province has been running an ecotourism program since 1994 featuring the macaques.

But a new 19-year study looking at monkey behavior before and after the program shows that tourism at the park coincides with skyrocketing infant macaque mortality.

Photograph courtesy China Daily Information Corp./Reuters