Positional behavior of two sympatric Guianan capuchin monkeys, the brown capuchin (Cebus apella) and the wedge-capped capuchin (Cebus olivaceus)

Mammalia

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 351-365

  Youlatos, D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; PRIMATE;

CEBUS APELLA; CEBUS OLIVACEUS;

EID: 0032438254     PISSN: 00251461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/mamm.1998.62.3.351     Document Type: Article

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