The Effect of Climatic Factors on the Activity Budgets of Barbary Macaques (Macaca sylvanus)

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 500-514

  Majolo, Bonaventura ^a   McFarland, Richard ^a,b   Young, Christopher ^c   Qarro, Mohamed ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d Ecole Nationale Forestiere d'Ingenieurs   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Climate; Feeding; Morocco; Resting; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEEDING ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIMATE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SNOW COVER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THERMOREGULATION;

ATLAS MOUNTAINS; MOROCCO;

ANIMALIA; HAPLORHINI; MACACA; MACACA SYLVANUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84878196553     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10764-013-9678-8     Document Type: Article

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