Nepal enlists AI to help fight against crop-raiding macaques

In a village in central Nepal, growing conflict between farmers and rhesus macaques has prompted researchers to test artificial intelligence-based systems that can swiftly detect and deter the monkeys, reports contributor Praveen Kumar Yadav for Mongabay.

A 2026 study that followed rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in one central Nepal region, found that nearly half of […]