Patterns of daily movement, activities and diet in woolly monkeys (genus lagothrix): A comparison between sites and methodologies

Primatology: Theories, Methods and Research

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 171-186

  Gonzalez M ^a   Stevenson, P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Ecological strategies; Focal animal sampling; Fruit production; Primate socio ecology; Scan animal sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028620724     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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