Distribution pattern of macaques in Guangxi

Abstract

We conducted distribution survey of four species belonging to genus Macaca in Guangxi about ten days in 2005 and two months in 2008. We collected monkey information and directly observed monkeys in and around eight nature reserves in northern and western part of Guangxi. While Macaca mulatta was distributed in all the areas surveyed on 100–300 m asl, M. thibetana patchily occupied the more than 400–500 m asl in the northern part of Guangxi, and M. assamensis patchily occupied 200–400 m asl areas in the centro-southern part. It seems that the distribution patterns of M. thibetana and M. assamensis result from inter-specific relations with M. mulatta during Pleistocene periods.