Risky Business? Lethal Attack by a Jaguar Sheds Light on the Costs of Predator Mobbing for Capuchins (Cebus capucinus)

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 440-446

  Tórrez, Lucía ^a   Robles, Nena ^a   González, Anyuri ^a   Crofoot, Margaret C ^a,b,c  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antipredator strategies; Barro Colorado Island; Cebus capucinus; Mobbing; Panthera onca

Indexed keywords

FELID; MOBBING; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR; PRIMATE;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; PANAMA [PANAMA (NTN)];

ANIMALIA; CEBUS; CEBUS CAPUCINUS; FELIDAE; PANTHERA; PANTHERA ONCA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84858797168     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10764-012-9588-1     Document Type: Article

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