Arboreal locomotion in wild black-and-white snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti)

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 195-211

  Isler, Karin ^a   Grüter, Cyril C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Colobines; Gait parameters; Kinematics; Sexual dimorphism; Vertical climbing

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CERCOPITHECUS; COLOR; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CERCOPITHECINAE; COLOR; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PIGMENTATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

ARANEAE; ATELES; ATELES FUSCICEPS; ATELES SP.; HOMO; MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA; PAN PANISCUS; PYGATHRIX; PYGATHRIX BIETI;

EID: 33646007313     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000091229     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Aerts P, Van Damme R, Van Elsacker L, Duchene V (2000). Spatio-temporal gait characteristics of the hindlimb cycles during voluntary bipedal and quadrupedal walking in bonobos (Pan paniscus). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 111: 503-517.
2. Alexander RM (1989). Optimization and gaits in the locomotion of vertebrates. Physiological Reviews 69: 1199-1227.
3. Alexander RM (1992). Exploring Biomechanics: Animals in Motion. New York, Scientific American Library.
4. Ashton EH, Oxnard CE (1963). The musculature of the primate shoulder. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 29: 553-650.
5. Davison GWH (1982). Convergence with terrestrial cercopithecines by the monkey Rhinopithecus roxellanae. Folia Primatologica 37: 209-215.
6. Ding W (2003). Feeding Ecology. Social Organization and Conservation Biology of Rhinopithecus bieti at Tacheng, Yunnan. PhD dissertation, Beijing, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
7. Ding W, Zhao QK (2004). Rhinopithecus bieti at Tacheng, Yunnan: diet and daytime activities. International Journal of Primatology 25: 583-598.
8. Fleagle JG, Stern JT, Tungers WL, Susman RL, Vangor AK, Wells JP (1981). Climbing: a biomechanical link with brachiation and with bipedalism. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London 48: 359-375.
9. Full RJ (1989). Mechanics and Energetics of Terrestrial Locomotion: From Bipeds to Polypeds. Innsbruck, Thieme.
10. Hildebrand M (1967). Symmetrical gaits of primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 26: 119-130.
11. Hirasaki E, Kumakura H, Matano S (1993). Kinesiological characteristics of vertical climbing in Ateles geoffroyi and Macaca fuscata. Folia Primatologica 61:148-156.
12. Hunt KD (1991). Mechanical implications of chimpanzee positional behavior. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 86: 521-536.
13. Hunt KD (1992). Positional behavior of Pan troglodytes in the Mahale Mountains and Gombe Stream National Parks, Tanzania. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 87: 83-105.
14. Hunt KD (1994). The evolution of human bipedality: ecology and functional morphology. Journal of Human Evolution 26: 183-202.
15. Hunt KD, Cant JGH, Gebo DL, Rose MD, Walker SE, Youlatos D (1996). Standardized descriptions of primate locomotor and postural modes. Primates 37: 363-387.
16. Isler K (2002a). Characteristics of vertical climbing in African apes. Senckenbergiana Iethaea 82: 115-124.
17. Isler K (2002b). Characteristics of vertical climbing in gibbons. Evolutionary Anthropology 11(suppl 1): 49-52.
18. Isler K (2003a). 3D-Kinematics of Vertical Climbing in Hominoids. PhD thesis, Zürich, Universität Zürich.
19. Isler K (2003b). Aspects of vertical climbing in gorillas. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 243: 71-78.
20. Isler K (2004a). Locomotor performance, morphology and environment: an integrative approach to primate locomotion. Journal of Anthropological Science 82: 199-125.
21. Isler K (2004b). Footfall patterns, stride length and speed of vertical climbing in spider monkeys (Ateles fusciceps robustus) and woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha). Folia Primatologica 75: 133-149.
22. Isler K (2005). 3D-kinematics of vertical climbing in hominoids. Ameerican Journal of Physical Anthropology 126: 66-81.
23. Isler K, Thorpe SKS (2003). Gait parameters in vertical climbing of captive, rehabilitant and wild Sumatran orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus abelii). Journal of Experimental Biology 206: 4081-4096.
24. Jablonski NG, Pan RL (1995). Sexual dimorphism in the snub-nosed langurs (Colobinae, Rhinopithecus). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 96: 251-272.
25. Kirkpatrick RC (1996). Ecology and Behavior of the Yunnan Snub-Nosed Langur (Rhinopithecus bieti, Colobinae). PhD dissertation, Davis, University of California.
26. Kirkpatrick RC, Long YC (1994). Altitudinal ranging and terrestriality in the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti). Folia Primatologica 63: 102-106.
27. Kirkpatrick RC, Long YC, Zhong T, Xiao L (1998). Social organization and range use in the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey Rhinopithecus bieti. International Journal of Primatology 19: 13-51.
28. Larson SG (1998). Parallel evolution in the hominoid trunk and forelimb. Evolutionary Anthropology 6: 87-99.
29. Long YC, Kirkpatrick CR, Zhong T, Xiao L (1994). Report on the distribution, population, and ecology of the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti). Primates 35: 241-250.
30. Mittermeier RA, Fleagle JG (1976). Locomotor and postural repertoires of Ateles geoffroyi and Colobus guereza, and a re-evaluation of the locomotor category semibrachiation. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 45: 235-255.
31. Napier JR (1963). Brachiation and brachiators. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London 10: 183-195.
32. Pilbeam DR (2002). Perspectives on the Miocene Hominoidea. In The Primate Fossil Record (Hartwig WC, ed.), pp 303-310. New York, Cambridge University Press.
33. Preuschoft H, Witte H, Demes B (1992). Biomechanical factors that influence overall body shape of large apes and humans. In Topics in Primatology (Matano S, Tuttle R, Ishida H, Goodman M, eds.), pp 259-289. Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press.
34. Schultz AH (1930). The skeleton of the trunk and limbs of higher primates. Human Biology 2: 303-438.
35. Su D, Jablonski NG (1998). Locomotion and forelimb morphology in snub-nosed monkeys (Colobinae: Rhinopithecus). American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 26: 213.
36. Taylor CR, Caldwell SL, Rowntree VJ (1972). Running up and down hills: some consequences of size. Science 178: 1096-1097.
37. Vilensky JA, Gankiewicz E (1989). Early development of locomotor behavior in vervet monkeys. American Journal of Primatology 17: 11-25.
38. Wu BQ (1993). Patterns of spatial dispersion, locomotor, and foraging behavior in three groups of the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti) in Baimaxue Mountain, north-western Yunnan province, China. Folia Primatologica 60: 63-71.
39. Wu BQ, Xian RL (1994). Significance of the particular locomotory behaviour of Yunnan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti) in northwestern Yunnan, China. In Current Primatology (Thierry B, Anderson JR, Roeder JJ, Herrenschmidt N, eds.), vol I: Ecology and Evolution, pp 211-214. Strasbourg, Louis Pasteur University Press.