Behavioral thermoregulation in a sexually and developmentally dichromatic neotropical primate, the black-and-gold howling monkey (Alouatta caraya)

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 533-546

  Bicca Marques, Júlio César ^a   Calegaro Marques, Cláudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Coat color; Heat balance; Positional behavior; Resting; Sexual selection; Size

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY POSTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; REST; SEX DIFFERENCE; THERMOREGULATION;

ALOUATTA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; PIGMENTATION; POSTURE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0031819157     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199808)106:4<533::AID-AJPA8>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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