Title
Characteristics and use of sleeping sites in Aotus (Cebidae: Primates) in the Amazon lowlands of Peru
Date Issued
01 January 1986
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Abstract
In the Amazon lowlands of Peru, Aotus nancymai and A. vociferans were observed to use four different types of sleeping sites: (1) holes in the trunks and branches of dry or senescent trees; (2) concavities in polyaxial branching nodes of trees protected by dense entanglements of creepers, climbing plants, vines, and masses of diverse epiphytes; (3) complex sites among masses of epiphytes, climbers, and vines; and (4) simple sites among thickets and dense foliage. Each type is described. There was competition and sharing of sleeping holes between Aotus and other nocturnal arboreal mammals. Copyright © 1986 Wiley‐Liss, Inc., A Wiley Company
Start page
319
End page
331
Volume
11
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84990148599
Source
American Journal of Primatology
ISSN of the container
02752565
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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