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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES Chatterjee, A.K. (1989): Survey of Snow Leopard and associated Groves,C.P.(2001):PrimateTaxonomy.SmithsonianInstitutionPress, animalsin MoulingNational park,east Siangdistrict,Arunachal Washington DC. 350 pp. Pradesh.Arunachalforestnews 7(1 & 2): 10-15. Kaul, R. (1999): Arunachal: inquestofnature’s bounty.WWF-India, Choudhury,A.U.(1989):PrimatesofAssam:theirdistribution,habitat New Delhi. 76pp. and status. Ph.D. thesis. Gauhati University. 300pp. +maps. Khan,M.A.R.(1985): MammalsofBangladesh.N.Reza,Dhaka.92pp. Choudhury, A.U. (1990): Primates in Bhutan. Oryx 24: 125. Khati, D. (1995): Dampa. SanctuaryAsia 15(2): 30-35. Choudhury, A.U. (1997): Mammals of Namcha Barwa, Tibet. Oryx Prater, S.H. (1948): The Book of Indian Animals. Bombay Natural 31(2): 91. History Society and Oxford University Press, Bombay. Corbet, G.B. & J.E. Hill (1992): The Mammals ofthe Indo-malayan Qiu. M.J. (1997): MammalsofNamchaBarwa,Tibet. Oryx31(2): 92. Region: A Systematic review. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Qiu, M.J. & W.V. Bleisch (1996): Preliminary assessment of large 488 pp. mammals in the Namcha Barwa region of SE Tibet. Oryx 30: Das, P, R. Ghose, T. Chakraborty, T. Bhattacharyya & M. Ghosh 31-36. (1995):Mammalia.In:FaunaofMeghalaya.StateFaunaSeries4 Roonwal, M.L. & S.M. Mohnot (1977): Primates of South Asia: (Part 1: vertebrates; Mammalia, pp. 23-128). Zoological Survey Ecology, Sociobiology & Behaviour. Harvard University Press, ofIndia, Calcutta. Cambridge(Mass.).421 pp. Groves, C.P (1993): Order Primates. Pp. 243-278. In: (Eds: Wilson, Tikader.B.K.(1983):ThreatenedAnimalsofIndia.ZoologicalSurvey D.E.&D.M.Reeder)MammalSpeciesoftheWorld:ATaxonomic ofIndia, Calcutta. 307 pp. &GeographicReference.2ndedn. SmithsonianInstitutionPress, Wangchuk, T. (1995): Acensus and the biogeography ofthe golden Washington, D.C. & London. langur. Tigerpaper22(3): 1-6. 2. MACAQUES ‘KIDNAP’ INFANT PALM CIVETS1 SuSu2 ‘Accepted September 09, 2005 2Zoology Department, Yangon University, Yangon, Myanmar. Email: [email protected] During a study of Civet ecology in Hlawga Wildlife carnivore in the Park. We used food to coax the monkey to Park(2000-2003), Iobservedtwoinstancesof ‘adoption' or surrenderthebabyCivet,butthemacaqueheldontoitfirmly. ‘kidnapping’ ofbaby Palm Civets. HlawgaWildlife Park in Whenwetriedchasing,itranawayandclimbedonatree,still Myanmar is a 6.24 sq. km protected area, dominated by holding the baby. The Park’sforestry staffreportedthatthey secondary mixed deciduous forest, located 35 km north of hadseenthemacaquewiththebabyCivetforthreedays.We Yangon.TheParkhasamixedfaunaoflargemammals,such observed the macaque with the live baby Civetdaily forthe asSambar(Cervusunicolor Hog Deer(Axisporcinus),Red nextthreedays,thebaby’svoicebecomingweakereachday. ), Muntjac(Muntiacusmuntjak),Eld'sDeer(Cervuseldi),Wild Twodayslater,theCivetwasdeadbutwasstillbeingcarried Boar(Sitsscrofa)andGaur(Bosfrontalis), someintroduced by the macaque. from otherareas in Myanmar (Su Su 2003). It has a current Aweekafterthisevent,wesawanothermalemacaque, population of c. 280 Rhesus Macaques (Macaco mulatto). a smaller male, carrying another baby Palm Civet. This The Park is frequently visited by local tourists who feed infantCivetwasalivebutwasnotvocalizing. Unfortunately, Sambar,HogDeer,Eld’sDeerandMacaqueswithfoodbought we were unable to observe this macaque on subsequent fromlocalvendors. days. It seems probable that these macaques appropriate OnApril22,2001, myassistantand Iwereapproached baby PalmCivets thattheyencounterincivetnestling sites, byagroupofmacaquesseekingfood.Oneadultmalecarried in trees. Macaques are known to show paternal behaviour a small black animal that was crying like akitten. We soon towardsinfantsoftheirownspecies(Schinoetal. 1995),but identified it as an infant Palm Civet (Paradoxurus we have not heard of allo-mothering behaviour in this hermaphroditus).ThePalmCivetisthemostcommonsmall species. REFERENCES Schino, G.. F.R. D'Amato & A. Trois (1995): Mother-infant relationships in Japanese macaques: sources of inter-individual variation. Anim. Behav. 49: 151-158. Su, Su (2003): The ecology of the small carnivore community in Hlawga Wildlife Park, Myanmar. Thesis submitted to Yangon University, Myanmar for the degree ofDoctorof Philosophy in Wildlife Science and Conservation. 169 pp. 200 J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 104 (2), May-Aug 2007