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Primate-fauna interactions and coexistence |
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Primate-fauna interactions:
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Wild primates do not
exist in an ecological vacuum. They share the canopy with other mammals, birds,
reptiles, amphibians and a myriad of insects. Among these, those that use
similar resources or that converge in time and space with the primates in the
use of resources are of interest to us.
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A basic question of
our research is how do the primates partition resources with other animals in
the canopy? Here we have focused our investigations on those other vertebrates
and some insect groups that use leaves and fruit as food.
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Of interest is to
assess patterns of resource overlap and the magnitude of the pressure other
animals in the forest exert upon food resources used by the primates (e.g.
leaves in the case of howler monkeys and fruit in the case of both howler and
spider monkeys).
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Results of some of this studies can be found in the list of publication
of the primate lab by activating the corresponding link in the main page (main page).
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