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Co-Authored with Ashni Kumar Dhawale. Primates (2024)
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Many primate species show various behavioural and ecological adaptations to provisioning, one of which is the unusual occurrence of twins. Here, we report observations on two pairs of twins in the Puthuthottam population of lion-tailed macaques Macaca silenus in the Anamalai Hills of the Western Ghats and show that some lion-tailed macaque twins can survive under free-ranging conditions if they receive adequate care from their biological mother or another female. More importantly, these findings provide further evidence of increased rates of twinning as a consequence of dietary changes in synanthropic nonhuman primate populations.
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