Caviar in the rain forest: Monkeys as frog-spawn predators in taï National Park, Ivory Coast

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 289-294

  Rödel, Mark Oliver ^a   Range, Friederike ^b   Seppänen, Janne Tuomas ^c   Noë, Ronald ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Anura; Cercocebus torquatus atys; Cercopithecus diana diana; Chiromantis rufescens; Frog spawn; Hyperolius chlorosteus; Hyperolius sylvaticus, Mammalia; Predation; Rain forest; West Africa

Indexed keywords

EGG; FROG; PREDATION; PRIMATE; RAINFOREST;

COTE D'IVOIRE;

ANURA; ATYS; CERCOCEBUS; CERCOCEBUS TORQUATUS; CERCOCEBUS TORQUATUS ATYS; CERCOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECUS DIANA; CHIROMANTIS; CHIROMANTIS RUFESCENS; HYPEROLIUS; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0036190213     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467402002195     Document Type: Article

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