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I took this picture at Peradeniya Botanical Garden.The monkeys in particular were turning into pests, and chasing them away became a daily ritual for the villagers.A new study now suggests it was this human action, among a slate of other factors, that contributed to the growth of the monkey communities in the area and the increase in frequency of human-monkey conflicts, or HMC. The findings, the authors say, can help inform policies to mitigate future instances of HMC.“What people did not appear to understand is that the kitchen food scraps thrown into the garden or intended for domestic animal feed attracted [the monkeys],” said primatologist Wolfgang Dittus, lead author of the study published in the journal Folia Primatologica, and director of the Smithsonian Primate Biology Program in Sri Lanka.I

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