Use of sleeping trees by ursine colobus monkeys (Colobus vellerosus) demonstrates the importance of nearby food

Primates

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 287-296

  Teichroeb, Julie A ^a   Holmes, Teresa D ^b   Sicotte, Pascale ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Foraging strategies; Predation risk; Range defense; Sleep tree; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ARBOREAL SPECIES; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOME RANGE; PREDATION RISK; PRIMATE; SITE SELECTION; SLEEP; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COLOBINAE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; GHANA; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SLEEP; TREE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLOBUS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; GHANA; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MALE; SLEEP; TREES;

BOABENG-FIEMA MONKEY SANCTUARY; BRONG-AHAFO; GHANA;

ANIMALIA; COLOBINAE; COLOBUS; COLOBUS SP.; COLOBUS VELLEROSUS; HAPLORHINI;

EID: 84864312116     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-012-0299-1     Document Type: Article

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