Natural Food Plants and Feeding Behaviors of Macaca hecki in the Makarti Jaya Forest, Pohuwato Regency

Aprilia Putri Hala; Ramli Utina; Mustamin Ibrahim; Jusna Ahmad; Chairunnisah J. Lamangantjo; Djuna Lamondo

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Natural Food Plants and Feeding Behaviors of Macaca hecki in the Makarti Jaya Forest, Pohuwato Regency

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Aprilia Putri Hala¹, Ramli Utina¹^{, 2}^{, *}, Mustamin Ibrahim¹^{, 2}, Jusna Ahmad¹, Chairunnisah J. Lamangantjo¹, Djuna Lamondo¹

¹Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Jln. Prof. Dr. Ing. B.J. Habibie, Bone Bolango Regency, Gorontalo, 96583, Indonesia

²Coastal Ecology Based On Local Wisdom Research Center, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Jln. Prof. Dr. Ing. B.J. Habibie, Bone Bolango Regency, Gorontalo, 96583, Indonesia

^*Corresponding author. Email: ramli.utina@ung.ac.id

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Ramli Utina

Available Online 28 July 2025.

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Keywords: Macaca hecki; food plants; feeding behaviors
Abstract: Macaca hecki is an endemic animal on the island of Sulawesi. Macaca eats plant parts, such as leaves, flowers, fruit, and seeds of several types of plants, with different feeding behavior. The aim of this research is to identify natural food plant species and describe the feeding behavior of M. hecki. The research method used habituation, ad-libitum sampling, and all-occurrence in the M. hecki group in the forest of Makarti Jaya Village, Pohuwato Regency, Gorontalo. This research shows eight species of M. hecki natural food plants, namely: (1) Arenga pinnata; (2) Pometia pinnata; (3) Syzygium cumini; (4) Piper aduncum; (5) Planchonia valida; (6) Musa paradisiaca; (7) Pangium edule; (8) Palaquium quercifolium. The feeding behavior of M. hecki, namely: (1) taking food directly from the tree with two hands; (2) taking food directly from the tree with one hand; (3) picking up food that falls on the ground; (4) chew calmly; (5) chewing hastily; and (6) store in cheek pouches. The highest frequency of natural food plant species is Syzygium cumini (31%), and the highest frequency of feeding behavior was taking food directly from the tree using two hands (39%).
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sciences, Mathematics, and Education 2023 (ICOSMED 2023)
Series: Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date: 28 July 2025
ISBN: 978-2-38476-410-5
ISSN: 2352-5398
DOI: 10.2991/978-2-38476-410-5_16 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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