When top-down becomes bottom up: Behaviour of hyperdense howler monkeys (alouatta seniculus) trapped on a 0.6 Ha Island

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Orihuela, Gabriela ^a   Terborgh, John ^b   Ceballos, Natalia ^c   Glander, Kenneth ^b  

^a Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALOUATTA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TRAPPING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITUATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VENEZUELA; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PSYCHOLOGY;

AGGRESSION; ALOUATTA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; FEMALE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; ISLANDS; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84899707400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082197     Document Type: Article

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