Self-anointing behavior in free-ranging spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) in Mexico

Primates

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 160-163

  Laska, Matthias ^a   Bauer, Verena ^a   Salazar, Laura Teresa Hernandez ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Ateles geoffroyi; Furrubbing; Mexico; Olfactory communication; Self anointing; Spider monkeys

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; OLFACTION; PRIMATE; SEXUALITY; SIGNALING;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; ATELINAE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MEXICO; OBSERVATION; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ATELINAE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MEXICO; OBSERVATION; ODORS; PLANT LEAVES;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; APIACEAE; APIUM GRAVEOLENS; APIUM GRAVEOLENS VAR. DULCE; ARANEAE; ATELES GEOFFROYI; ATELES SP.; BRONGNIARTIA ALAMOSANA; CECROPIA; CECROPIA OBTUSIFOLIA; FABACEAE; HEXAPODA; PRIMATES; URTICACEAE;

EID: 33947226197     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-006-0019-9     Document Type: Article

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