... Primate electrocution Polonnaruwa The expansion of human activity into wilderness areas brings in its wake ever increasing conflict between wildlife and humans, one aspect of which includes the electrocution of animals on power lines. Electrocutions have been documented for Asian elephants [Palei...

... species in an effort to contribute to an ethnoprimatological approach to conservation, i.e., promote a coexistence and sharing of habitat between humans and monkeys. We selected 13 villages near Polonnaruwa, located centrally in the dry zone. The four nonhuman primate species differ in their behavioral...