Two incidents of venomous snakebite on juvenile blue and Sykes monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis stuhlmanni and C. m. albogularis)

Primates

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 300-303

  Foerster, Steffen ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Cercopithecus mitis; Predation; Snake bite; Social play

Indexed keywords

INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY; PLAY; PREDATION; PRIMATE; SNAKE; SPACE USE; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERCOPITHECUS; FATALITY; KENYA; MONKEY DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS; ELAPIDAE; FATAL OUTCOME; KENYA; MONKEY DISEASES; SNAKE BITES; VIPERIDAE;

AFRICA; COAST PROVINCE; EAST AFRICA; GEDE RUINS NATIONAL MONUMENT; KAKAMEGA FOREST; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WESTERN PROVINCE [KENYA];

ALBOGULARIS; BITIS GABONICA; CERCOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECUS MITIS; DENDROASPIS POLYLEPIS; DENDROASPIS POLYLEPIS POLYLEPIS; PRIMATES;

EID: 54949112429     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-008-0098-x     Document Type: Article

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