Effects of support size and orientation on symmetric gaits in free-ranging tamarins of Amazonian Peru: implications for the functional significance of primate gait sequence patterns

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 242-251

  Nyakatura, John A ^a   Heymann, Eckhard W ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arboreality; Diagonal sequence; Field study; Lateral sequence; Locomotion; Saguinus fuscicollis; Saguinus mystax

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; EVOLUTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LOCOMOTION; PRIMATE;

AMAZONIA; PERU;

PRIMATES; SAGUINUS FUSCICOLLIS; SAGUINUS IMPERATOR; SAGUINUS MYSTAX; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 77149147106     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.11.010     Document Type: Article

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