A simple method for measuring colour in wild animals: Validation and use on chest patch colour in geladas (Theropithecus gelada)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 231-240

  Bergman, Thore J ^a   Beehner, Jacinta C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Colour measurement; Colour vision; Primate; Signal

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COLOR MORPH; DIGITAL IMAGE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIMATE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNAL; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES; THEROPITHECUS; THEROPITHECUS GELADA;

EID: 44649123518     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.00981.x     Document Type: Article

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