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Animal medical systems from Apis to apes: history, recent advances and future perspectives
ABSTRACTAnimal medical systems encompass a wide range of behaviours aimed at maintaining or improving health. It has become clear that these behaviours are not limited to animals treating themselves (self‐medication) but also include the treatment of group members, resulting in the adoption of the more inclusive term “animal medication”. Behaviour with
Michelina Pusceddu +5 more
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A census of mammal populations in Punta Leona Private Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica
Population sizes of six mammal species were estimated using the King method during the late dry season (March) of 1996 in the Punta Leona Private Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica.
Joshua Timock, Christopher Vaughan
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Where cercopithecine monkeys are well fed, as in managed colonies, mothers cease lactation by about 7 months. This contrasts weaning age in a food limited population of wild toque macaques (TM) in Sri Lanka where all mothers lactate up to 7 months (0.58 y), during primary lactation, and continue to provide supplementary milk as infants transition to ...
Wolfgang P. J. Dittus +3 more
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Primate spatial strategies and cognition: Introduction to this special issue [PDF]
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/106890/1/ajp22257 ...
Dolins, Francine L., Garber, Paul A.
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La destrucción del hábitat conlleva a la fragmentación de poblaciones de especies silvestres y se considera como uno de los principales factores en la extinción de especies A medida que las poblaciones se vuelven más pequeñas, surgen amenazas hacia su ...
Jorge Rodríguez-Matamoros +2 more
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Color vision diversity and significance in primates inferred from genetic and field studies [PDF]
Color provides a reliable cue for object detection and identification during various behaviors such as foraging, mate choice, predator avoidance and navigation.
Shoji Kawamura
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Los primates son uno de los grupos de mamíferos más decomisados por la autoridades ambientales (SDA) en Bogotá, Colombia. Un total de 133 primates fueron confiscados en Bogotá durante el año 2008 y mantenidos en las instalaciones de la SDA. De ellos, 115
Manuel Ruiz-García +4 more
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En Isla Gorgona se registran dos subespecies endémicas de mamíferos arbóreos, el Mono capuchino de pecho blanco (Cebus capucinus curtus) y el Perezoso de tres dedos de garganta marrón (Bradypus variegatus gorgon), especies importante para la conservación
Mario Fernando Garcés-Restrepo +4 more
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ABSTRACT Infant survival is an important component of parental fitness in iteroparous species with slow life histories. From the infant's perspective, survival can be more or less directly influenced by the social environment, with group members potentially representing either a threat or a buffer against external stressors.
Amrei Pfaff +2 more
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Distribución, estructura y caracterización del hábitat de dos poblaciones simpátricas de alouatta (alouatta seniculus y alouatta palliata, primates) en el Chocó, Colombia [PDF]
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Zúñiga Leal, Sara Alexandra
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