Field Methods for Capturing and Marking Azarai Night Monkeys

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1113-1120

  Fernandez Duque, Eduardo ^a,c   Rotundo, Marcelo ^b  

^a Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^b Fundacion ECO   (Argentina)

^c ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aotus; Capturing; Ketamine; Marking; Owl monkey

Indexed keywords

CAPTURE METHOD; FIELD METHOD; MARKING METHOD; PRIMATE;

ARGENTINA; FORMOSA; SOUTH AMERICA;

AOTUS (PRIMATE); AOTUS AZARAI; AOTUS AZARAI AZARAI; AOTUS TRIVIRGATUS; PRIMATES; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 0345016038     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026284430453     Document Type: Article

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