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Previous studies of rhesus monkey populations in northern India throughout the 1960s showed considerable declines in these populations due to a variety of ecological, economic, and social factors (Southwick and Siddiqi 1966, 1968, Southwick et al. 1961a,b, 1965,1970). Since 1970 there have been indications in Aligarh District of western Uttar Pradesh that this decline was leveling, and some improvement in rhesus population status was occurring (Southwick and Siddiqi 1977, Southwick et al. 1980). From 1962 to 1970, the Aligarh rhesus population declined 60% (from 403 to 163 individuals), but from 1970 to 1978 this population recovered part of this loss with a 44.8% increase (from 163 to 236). Seth and Seth (1980) have also observed population increases in a number of rhesus groups in western and northern U.P. and eastern Rajasthan since 1975.
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Southwick, C.H., Siddiqi, M.F., Cohen, J.A., Oppenheimer, J.R., Khan, J., Ashraf, S.W. (1982). Further Declines in Rhesus Populations of India. In: Chiarelli, A.B., Corruccini, R.S. (eds) Advanced Views in Primate Biology. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68300-8_12
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