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Project Sea Monkey

Project Sea Monkey is a developing program that studies coastal and island living long-tailed macaques in Thailand and Myanmar.

Our program investigates the tool-using behaviour of long-tailed macaques living in southern Thailand and Myanmar. We currently have study programs occurring in Thailand at Laem Son National Park in Ranong Province and Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park, Prachuab Khiri Khan. We are also beginning to carry out surveys through the coastal areas of Ranong, Thailand, and also the Myeik (or Mergui) Archipe

lago of Myanamar to learn the full range of distribution of long-tailed macaque tool use. The project began as a collaboration between Michael Gumert from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore and Suchinda Malaivitinond from Chulalongkorn University (CU), Bangkok, Thailand. We are also collaborating with Michael Haslam from University of Oxford's Primate Archaeology Program. Currently, Amanda Tan, a graduate student from NTU, and Nalina Aiempichitkijkarn, an undergraduate from CU are conducting research as well. Research and development of our program has been supported by Singapore's and Thailand's Ministry of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Chulalongkorn University, Leakey Foundation, Animal Behaviour Society, and the European Research Council. We appreciate all the support we have received, and hope to continue building our program into a larger program with the mission to continue scientific research about these macaques, educate communities about animal traditions and cultures, and to sustain populations of macaques that are naturally using tools.

01/10/2015

12 new infants have been born into our Koram Island study group this year, and here they are!

25/09/2015

Researchers from NTU (Singapore) and Oxford are back at Ko Ram Island in Khao Sam Roi Yot NP, Thailand, for a short field session. Many new little faces in the group, and some older ones conspicuously missing. The tool use continues!

Photos by Amanda Tan, NTU.

05/04/2015

look out for our paper on the "styles" of macaque tool use, out in PLoS ONE soon. it's open access so anyone can read it, and there will also be a video that you can watch!

“observations started in 2007, our paper on the 17 "styles" of macaque tool use is in press at watch for it!”

28/03/2014

Here's the news piece by Channel 7, check it!

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22/03/2014

Channel 7 Thai news setting up to film tool-using monkeys on Ko Ram Island. Those in Thailand, catch it if you can!

22/03/2014

our tool-using macaques are featured in the "Master Minds" episode of BBC One's new series, Monkey Planet!

Meet the primates - Your animal family as you’ve never seen it before.

17/03/2014

it's been awhile since our last update, and we have since welcomed 3 new infants into the group on Ko Ram Island. Mork, Nangrohm, and Pla had their babies, and about 5 other adult females are still looking ready to pop!

21/02/2014

Koram monkeys are on the news! The news reported that the monkeys are suffering because of the drought, and appealed for people to visit with bottled water. Don't worry, the monkeys are all OK, and the drought is over and it has been raining continuously for 2 days.

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20/02/2014

after more than a month without rain the skies finally broke today, and definitely tried to make up for the drought. getting caught out on the island was no fun!

16/02/2014

the newborns of this year's birth peak who will help us discover how these monkeys learn to use tools (: some of the adult females are still looking heavily pregnant, so we're still expecting more little ones!