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Foraging Strategy Changes in an Alouatta palliata mexicana Troop Released on an Island

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Primates in Fragments

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The distribution of primates has been diminishing during the last decades because of fragmentation and disappearance of habitat (Estrada and Coates-Estrada, 1994). As a consequence, the geographic distribution is no longer continuous and is comprised of areas relatively inaccessible to people. Fragmented habitat is where some primates manifest a great behavioral elasticity as an adaptive response to changes in their environment (Chivers, 1991; García-Orduña, 1996; Rodríguez-Luna, 2000). The renewed interest for the study of primates under different environmental conditions is attributed to a change in perspectives of theory and methodology for research. Chivers (1986) suggested that, as a complement to the study of the survival of primates in disturbed habitat, work must be developed in different-sized fragments of tropical forest.

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  1. Parque de Flora y Fauna Silvestre Tropical, Instituto de Neuroetología, Universidad Veracruzana, Jalapa, Veracruz, México, 91000

    Ernesto Rodríguez-Luna, Laura E. Domínguez-Domínguez & Jorge E. Morales-Mávil

  2. Maestría en Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Veracruzana, Jalapa, Veracruz, México, 91000

    Manuel Martínez-Morales

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Rodríguez-Luna, E., Domínguez-Domínguez, L.E., Morales-Mávil, J.E., Martínez-Morales, M. (2003). Foraging Strategy Changes in an Alouatta palliata mexicana Troop Released on an Island. In: Marsh, L.K. (eds) Primates in Fragments. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3770-7_15

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