of these macaques, and the latter is necessary for increase of infant survival, social ranking, reproductive success, and even enhanced thermoregulation during winter. According to a study about the habituation process, Moor macaques react differently to the presence of humans depending on their previous interactions with them. Moor macaques are better approached in areas of greater visibility with more trees. Food provisioning, in which people purposefully offer food to nonhuman primates, may result in rapid habituation of wildlife such that they approach humans for food, take food from their hands, and perhaps aggress toward them to elicit provisioning behavior. Provisioning can lead to reduced foraging energy consumption in monkeys, more time for resting and social behavior, and higher birth rates, provisioned foods can be good energy sources. However, because it is linked to a higher risk of injury, zoonotic disease transmission, and direct human interaction, provisioning may also be potentially dangerous for monkeys and other wildlife species. Studies have found that the relatively widespread habit of pet macaque ownership among a variety of ethnic and religious groups on the island explain the bidirectional disease transmission. The majority of Sulawesi macaques kept as pets are captured as infants by opportunistically trapping wild mother-infant pairs or by using traps to reduce crop raiding, which resulted in competition for resources. Moor macaques’ encounter rate is lower in areas with more open spaces and with no trees than in areas with greater forest cover. Moreover, the individual encounter rate is lower when more traps are found in an area and higher when more domestic animals are sighted in the area. Conservation The tourism industry, hunting, agriculture and logging are some of the big threats to the Moor macaques because they highly contribute to their habitat loss. This resulted in the change and loss of 80% of Sulawesi's forests, with just 30% remaining in good condition - which means forest canopy unbroken by large clearings and only scattered signs of human activity. Therefore, Moor macaques’ conservation has become a broader concern. Even in areas that are under local protection, deforestation is still observed in many forests of the southern parts of the Sulawesi Island, thus conservation of the population of Moor macaques should be a priority since its population is declining at a high rate. For conservation purposes, information on life histories and demography is essential. The conservation status of Moor macaques is considered high.