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STUDYING PRIMATES IN EASTERN COLOMBIA: THIRTY FIVE YEARS OF A PRIMATOLOGICAL LIFE
A history of some details the author´s research in eastern Colombia is presented for the last 27 years since 1977 in Vichada, Vaupés, Amazonas and most recently in Meta up to the present.
Thomas Richard Defler
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Primate populations in continuous forest and forest fragments in Central Amazonia [PDF]
Population densities of six primate species (Saguinus midas, Pithecia pithecia, Cebus apella, Chiropotes satanas, Alouatta seniculus and Ateles paniscus) were estimated in continuous forest and in isolated reserves (one of 100 ha and four of 10 ha ...
Anthony B. Rylands, Alexine Keuroghlian
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Multiple sex chromosome systems in howler monkeys (Platyrrhini, Alouatta) [PDF]
In light of the multiple sex chromosome systems observed in howler monkeys (Alouatta Lacépède, 1799) a combined cladistic analysis using chromosomal and molecular characters was applied to discuss the possible origin of these systems.
Mudry, Marta Dolores +2 more
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Within the northeastern Peruvian Amazonia remain areas with scarce information on primates, one of them being the interfluvium between the Napo and Putumayo rivers.
Rolando Aquino +3 more
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Chromosome Evolution in New World Monkeys (Platyrrhini) [PDF]
During the last decades, New World monkey (NWM, Platyrrhini, Anthropoideae) comparative cytogenetics has shed light on many fundamental aspects of genome organisation and evolution in this fascinating, but also highly endangered group of neotropical ...
de Oliveira, E. H. C. +2 more
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The primate community of Cachoeira (Brazilian Amazonia): a model to decipher ecological partitioning among extinct species. [PDF]
Dental microwear analysis is conducted on a community of platyrrhine primates from South America. This analysis focuses on the primate community of Cachoeira Porteira (Para, Brazil), in which seven sympatric species occur: Alouatta seniculus, Ateles ...
Anusha Ramdarshan +3 more
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El PNN Selva de Florencia, en los Andes centrales de Colombia, es reservorio de una amplia biodiver-sidad entre ellas cinco especies de primates. A pesar de ser un área protegida, en su interior existen procesos de transformación antrópica, que influyen ...
Ángela María Elizalde-Guerrero +3 more
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Rensch’s and Bergmann’s Rules in Cis-Andean South-American Howler Monkeys (Mammalia: Alouatta) [PDF]
Howler monkeys (genus Alouatta) are large folivorous primates living in South America. We tested for the application of both Rensch’s rule and Bergmann’s rule to body size variation in Alouatta. We found that Rensch’s rule does apply in howlers.
Bubadué, J +11 more
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Alouatta seniculus (Linnaeus, 1766). Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1:37. TYPE LOCALITY: Colombia, Bolivar, Rio Magdalena, Cartagena. DISTRIBUTION: Trinidad; Bolivia to Ecuador; Colombia to Guyana, French Guiana, Surinam, and N.C. Brazil. PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Order Primates. ISIS NUMBER: 5301406006006004001.
Honacki, James H. +2 more
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Infanticide and infant defence by males--modelling the conditions in primate multi-male groups [PDF]
Infanticide by primate males was considered rare if groups contain more than one adult male because, owing to lower paternity certainty, a male should be less likely to benefit from infanticide.
Alberts +55 more
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