Passers-by looking warily at a long-tailed macaque at a pedestrian path in Taman Persekutuan Bukit Kiara.
AMONG primate habitat countries, Malaysia is one of only 22 identified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2008 as having more than 20 species.
This is according to a paper titled ‘Primate research and conservation in Malaysia’ by biological anthropologist and behavioural ecologist Dr Susan Lappan and primatologist Nadine Ruppert in 2018.
