Dittus, Wolfgang P.J. Gunathilake, Sunil Felder, Melissa
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Folia Primatologica
Many investigators of human-monkey competition (HMC) in Sri Lanka have revealed some common threads. Except at temple and protected sites, all monkeys were considered as household or agricultural pests wherever they shared space with humans. This included the widely distributed toque macaque (Macaca sinica), the grey langur (Semnopithecus priam the...
Rudran, Rasanayagam
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Folia Primatologica
Dittus et al. [Folia Primatologica 2019;90: 89–108] discuss conflicts in Sri Lanka between people and 4 subspecies of purple-faced langurs, 3 subspecies of toque macaques and a single grey langur subspecies. All of these subspecies are endemic and also listed by the IUCN as endangered or threatened with extinction due to extensive deforestation. Ne...
Mills, Catriona Jade Nekaris, K.A.I. Campera, Marco Patel, Erik
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Folia Primatologica
Primate sleeping site selection is influenced by multiple ecological factors including predation avoidance, thermoregulation and food access. To test these hypotheses, we studied the sleeping trees used by a group of wild silky sifakas (Propithecus candidus) in Marojejy National Park, Madagascar. During this 10-month study, the group slept in 828 s...
Hickmott, Alexana J. Waller, Michel T. Wakefield, Monica L. Malone, Nicholas Brand, Colin M. White, Frances J.
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Folia Primatologica
Optimal diet and functional response models are used to understand the evolution of primate foraging strategies. The predictions of these models can be tested by examining the geographic and seasonal variation in dietary diversity. Dietary diversity is a useful tool that allows dietary comparisons across differing sampling locations and time period...
Hernández, M. Carmen González-Campos, Sandra Barja, Isabel
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Folia Primatologica
Although trichromatic colour vision has been extensively studied as it grants significant advantages for Old World primates, it is unknown which selective pressures were behind the trait’s evolution. The leading hypothesis would be that colour vision arose as a foraging adaptation because it allowed individuals to spot food more efficiently. To tes...
Molyneaux, Andrea Hankinson, Emma Kaban, Mbra Svensson, Magdalena S. Cheyne, Susan M. Nijman, Vincent
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Folia Primatologica
Our understanding of the transmission of anthropozoonotic diseases between humans and non-human primates, particularly great apes due to their close genetic relationship with humans, highlights a serious potential threat to the survival of these species. This is particularly the case at tourism sites where risk of disease transmission is increased....
Rambeloson, Elodi Andriambeloson, Jean-Basile Rasoanaivo, Hoby A. Ramarokoto, Roger E. Prosper, de Foucault, Cédric Greene, Lydia K. Blanco, Marina B.
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Folia Primatologica
Madagascar’s biodiversity is imperiled by habitat loss and degradation. Furthermore, species may be locally extirpated due to targeted hunting or disease. Translocating at-risk individuals to areas devoid of the species may be an effective conservation intervention. The aye-aye, Daubentonia madagascariensis, is uniquely susceptible to hunting press...
Crompton, Robin Huw McClymont, Juliet Elton, Sarah Thorpe, Susannah Sellers, William Heaton, Jason Pickering, Travis Rayne Pataky, Todd Carlson, Kristian J. Jashashvili, Tea
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Folia Primatologica
The StW 573 skeleton of Australopithecus prometheus from Sterkfontein Member 2 is some 93% complete and thus by far the most complete member of that genus yet found. Firmly dated at 3.67 Ma, it is one of the earliest specimens of its genus. A crucial aspect of interpretation of locomotor behaviour from fossil remains is an understanding of the pala...
Pang, Ke-Li Jin, Qin-Qin Yuan, Zan-An Kuang, Zhen-Jing Lu, Ji-Qi Tian, Jundong
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Folia Primatologica
The rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) is the most widely distributed nonhuman primate species, and captive populations play an important role in biomedical research due to close phylogenetic and physiological similarity to human beings. However, to our best knowledge, the spondyloarthritis (SpA) in rhesus macaques has been exclusively reported in cap...
Ulibarri, Lawrence R. Gartland, Kylen N.
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Folia Primatologica
Multilevel societies, consisting of multiple one-male multi-female units, are relatively rare among primates, but are more widespread in the odd-nosed colobines than other taxa. Multilevel societies are found particularly in snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus)and have been debated in studies of proboscis monkeys (Proboscis). While it has been sugges...
