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Damage Control Strategies Affecting Crop-Raiding Japanese Macaque Behaviors in a Farming Community

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Acknowledgements

This study would have been impossible without help from the residents who cooperated with our research and Sasayama City Hall providing the information about damage control. Special thanks to them. We are grateful to the members of Rural Planning Lab at Kobe University and Geospatial Information Lab at Niigata University. We appreciate two anonymous reviewers who provided us very helpful comments and suggestions to develop the argument in this paper.

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This study was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant number 17 K12841.

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Ueda, Y., Kiyono, M., Nagano, T. et al. Damage Control Strategies Affecting Crop-Raiding Japanese Macaque Behaviors in a Farming Community. Hum Ecol 46, 259–268 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-018-9994-x

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