Muna-Buton macaque over 60% of its diet, including figs and pandanas fruits. It also feeds on leaves, insects, flowers and bark. It is a very successful crop-raider and if there are agricultural fields nearby it will spend up to 2 hours at a time raiding farmers crops such as sweet potato, maize, papaya and banana. Muna-Buton macaque The Muna-Buton macaque ("Macaca ochreata brunnescens") is one of seven Sulawesi macaques in Indonesia. It is only found on two small islands off the south-east coast; the islands of Buton and Muna. This Old World monkey is diurnal and arboreal, although it can spend significant
Macaque in check. For example, if 80% of females are sterilized every five years, or 50% every two years, it could effectively reduce the population. Other control strategies include planting specific trees to provide protection to native birds from macaque predation, live trapping, and the vaccine Porcine Zona Pellucida (PZP), which causes infertility in females Macaques have a very intricate social structure and hierarchy. If a macaque of a lower level in the social chain has eaten berries and none are left for a higher-level macaque, then the one higher in status can, within this social organization, remove the berries from