Ranging behaviour, daily path lengths, diet and habitat use of yellow-tailed woolly monkeys (Lagothrix flavicauda) at La Esperanza, Peru

The Woolly Monkey: Behavior, Ecology, Systematics, and Captive Research

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 167-185

  Shanee, Sam ^a  

^a Neotropical Primate Conservation   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation; Ecology Lagothrix flavicauda; Ecology yellow tailed woolly monkey; Home pange overlap; Minimum convex polygon

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028587856     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0697-0_10     Document Type: Chapter

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