Cost-free vigilance during feeding in folivorous primates? Examining the effect of predation risk, scramble competition, and infanticide threat on vigilance in ursine colobus monkeys (Colobus vellerosus)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 453-466

  Teichroeb, Julie A ^a   Sicotte, Pascale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Feeding position; Folivorous primates; Food handling; Infanticide risk; Predation risk; Scanning rates; Scramble competition for food

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUGIVORY; GROUP SIZE; INFANTICIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PREDATION RISK; PRIMATE; SIZE EFFECT; VIGILANCE;

COLOBINAE; COLOBUS SP.; COLOBUS VELLEROSUS; HAPLORHINI; PRIMATES;

EID: 84856953165     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-011-1292-1     Document Type: Article

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