Sleeping cluster patterns and retiring behaviors during winter in a free-ranging band of the Sichuan snub-nosed monkey

Primates

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 221-228

  Zhang, Peng ^a,b,c   Li, Bao Guo ^b   Watanabe, Kunio ^c   Qi, Xiao Guang ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Retiring behavior; Rhinopithecus roxellana; Sleeping cluster; Winter

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; PRIMATE; SLEEP; THERMOREGULATION; WINTER;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHINA; COLOBINAE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SLEEP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THERMOREGULATION; TREE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CHINA; COLOBINAE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; SEASONS; SLEEP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TREES;

CHINA; QINLING MOUNTAINS; SICHUAN;

HAPLORHINI; PYGATHRIX ROXELLANA;

EID: 80051783161     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-011-0241-y     Document Type: Article

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