Generalist wildlife species often thrive in urban environments because of increased anthropogenic resources. However, human-wildlife interactions, especially if negative, raise concerns for urban wildlife management. An enhanced understanding of wildlife behavioural flexibility has been suggested to be a key tool to provide educated and effective management strategies. We therefore investigated how availability of semi-naturally occurring food affected behavioural foraging patterns of urban vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus), a generalist primate commonly found in urban areas of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Over one year, we conducted 20 min. focal animal observations recording foraging behaviour and food consumption. We used a combination of a generalised linear model and descriptive statistics to examine the relationship between anthropogenic food consumption and semi-natural food availability. Our analyses showed that anthropogenic food consumption decreased as semi-natural food availability increased. We also showed that increased aggression from humans towards vervet monkeys decreased time spent foraging on anthropogenic food. Our study highlights how vervet monkeys have adapted to their urban landscape, showing foraging flexibility in response to available food resources and the frequency of human interactions. We suggest how our results can be applied for management recommendations, particularly controlling anthropogenic food availability and decreasing negative human-wildlife interactions.

通俗的野生动植物物种通常由于人为资源的增加而在城市环境中蓬勃发展。然而，人与野生生物的相互作用，特别是负面的相互作用，引起了城市野生生物管理的关注。已提出对野生生物行为灵活性的加深了解是提供受过教育的有效管理策略的关键工具。因此，我们调查了半天然食物的可获得性如何影响城市黑长尾猴（Chlorocebus pygerythrus）的行为觅食模式。），是在南非夸祖鲁-纳塔尔省市区发现的通才灵长类动物。一年多的时间，我们进行了20分钟。重点动物观察记录觅食行为和食物消耗。我们使用广义线性模型和描述性统计的组合来检验人为食物消费与半自然食物供应之间的关系。我们的分析表明，随着半天然食物供应量的增加，人为食物的消费量减少了。我们还表明，从人类向黑长尾猴的侵略性增加，减少了在人为食物上觅食的时间。我们的研究强调了黑长尾猴如何适应他们的城市景观，并显示了对可用食物资源和人类互动频率的觅食灵活性。