Abstract
A global positioning system (GPS) collar recorded the locations of an adult female Japanese macaque over a 9-day period in a habitat with mixed suburban and rural land-uses in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The GPS device acquired positions even in forested areas. The GPS data located the female mostly in forested areas, although the female had ranged through a habitat with inter-mingled fields, orchards, quarries, and residential areas. However, the GPS position acquisition rate was low compared to studies carried out on North American mammals. The GPS fixed a position in 20% of positioning attempts. When the collared female was tracked by radio-telemetry, almost all failures of the GPS to fix a position occurred in forest.
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We thank the local governments and residents of Kyonan and Tomiyama Townships for their cooperation in the field research, to monitor the Japanese monkey population in their townships, carried out by the Boso Peninsula Monkey Management and Research Society for the local and prefectural governments in Chiba Prefecture. This research was carried out partly with a wildlife management project fund of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries, Japan.
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Sprague, D.S., Kabaya, H. & Hagihara, K. Field testing a global positioning system (GPS) collar on a Japanese monkey: reliability of automatic GPS positioning in a Japanese forest. Primates 45, 151–154 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-003-0071-7
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