Infant hybrids in a newly formed mixed-species group of howler monkeys (Alouatta guariba clamitans and Alouatta caraya) in northeastern Argentina

Primates

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 304-307

  Agostini, Ilaria ^a,b,c   Holzmann, Ingrid ^c,d   Di Bitetti, Mario S ^c,d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^c CeIBA ^*  (Argentina)

^d CONICET ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Black howlers; Brown howlers; Contact zone; Hybridisation; Yellow fever

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; FRAGMENTATION; HYBRID; HYBRIDIZATION; MORPHOTYPE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

ALOUATTA; ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; OBSERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALOUATTA; ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; OBSERVATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA CARAYA; ALOUATTA GUARIBA CLAMITANS; PRIMATES;

EID: 54949113576     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-008-0106-1     Document Type: Article

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