Calling patterns of Western purple-faced langurs (mammalia: Primates: Cercopithecidea: Trachypithecus vetulus nestor) in a degraded human landscape in Sri Lanka

Contributions to Zoology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 57-65

  Eschmann, C ^a   Moore, R ^a   Nekaris, K A I ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioacoustics; Colobinae; Fragmentation; South Asia; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; COLOBINAE; MAMMALIA; NESTOR; PRIMATES; TRACHYPITHECUS VETULUS;

EID: 53849148942     PISSN: 13834517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/18759866-07702001     Document Type: Article

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