{
  "id": 737332,
  "title": "Nepal enlists AI to help fight against crop-raiding macaques",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/nepal-enlists-ai-to-help-fight-against-crop-raiding-macaques",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-13T05:00:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mongabay",
    "slug": "mongabay",
    "url": "https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/nepal-enlists-ai-to-help-fight-against-crop-raiding-macaques/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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 […]",
  "key_points": [],
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}