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Estrada A, Garber PA, Gouveia S, Fernández-Llamazares Á, Ascensão F, Fuentes A, Garnett ST, Shaffer C, Bicca-Marques J, Fa JE, Hockings K, Shanee S, Johnson S, Shepard GH, Shanee N, Golden CD, Cárdenas-Navarrete A, Levey DR, Boonratana R, Dobrovolski R, Chaudhary A, Ratsimbazafy J, Supriatna J, Kone I, Volampeno S. Global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world's primates from extinction. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2022; 8:eabn2927. [PMID: 35947670 PMCID: PMC9365284 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn2927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2021] [Accepted: 06/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
Abstract
Primates, represented by 521 species, are distributed across 91 countries primarily in the Neotropic, Afrotropic, and Indo-Malayan realms. Primates inhabit a wide range of habitats and play critical roles in sustaining healthy ecosystems that benefit human and nonhuman communities. Approximately 68% of primate species are threatened with extinction because of global pressures to convert their habitats for agricultural production and the extraction of natural resources. Here, we review the scientific literature and conduct a spatial analysis to assess the significance of Indigenous Peoples' lands in safeguarding primate biodiversity. We found that Indigenous Peoples' lands account for 30% of the primate range, and 71% of primate species inhabit these lands. As their range on these lands increases, primate species are less likely to be classified as threatened or have declining populations. Safeguarding Indigenous Peoples' lands, languages, and cultures represents our greatest chance to prevent the extinction of the world's primates.
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- Alejandro Estrada
- Institute of Biology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City 04510, Mexico
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- Department of Anthropology and Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão - SE, Brazil
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- cE3c—Center for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes and CHANGE—Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Edifício C2, 5° Piso, Sala 2.5.46, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
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- Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, College of Engineering, Casuarina, Northern Territory 0909, Australia
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- Department of Anthropology, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401, USA
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- School of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
- Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), CIFOR Headquarters, Bogor 16115, Indonesia
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- Neotropical Primate Conservation, London, UK
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- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belém do Para, Brazil
- Programa de Pós Graduação em Antropologia Social, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil
- Department of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 200 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024-5102, USA
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- National Autonomous University of Mexico, Institute of Biology, Mexico City 04510, Mexico
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- Mahidol University International College, Salaya, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
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- Groupe d’étude et de recherche sur les primates (Gerp), Antananarivo, Madagascar
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- Graduate Program in Conservation Biology, Department of Biology, University of Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia
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- Centre Suisse des Recherches Scientifiques, Université de Cocody, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
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Heymann E. On the identity of the tamarin AMNH 98303 (“<i>Saguinus fuscicollis tripartitus</i>”; Primates: Haplorrhini: Simiiformes: Platyrrhini: Callitrichidae). Primate Biol 2022; 9:1-4. [PMID: 35106362 PMCID: PMC8795884 DOI: 10.5194/pb-9-1-2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2021] [Accepted: 12/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The American Museum of Natural History houses the skin of a tamarin (AMNH 98303) labelled as Saguinus fuscicollis tripartitus. However, the specimen does not match the phenotype of
this taxon, now named Leontocebus tripartitus, nor that of any other known species or subspecies of
Leontocebus. In this note, we review past taxonomic revisions of the genus
Saguinus – revisions that were largely driven by the contentious species or
subspecies status of the golden-mantled saddleback tamarin S. fuscicollis tripartitus – and compare the phenotype of AMNH 98303 with those of other tamarins in the same
genus to discuss the possible status of this specimen.
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Velazco PM, Voss RS, Fleck DW, Simmons NB. Mammalian Diversity and Matses Ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru Part 4: Bats. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 2021. [DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.451.1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Paúl M. Velazco
- Department of Biology, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA; Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Mammalogy), American Museum of Natural History
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- Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Mammalogy), American Museum of Natural History
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- Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History
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- Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Mammalogy), American Museum of Natural History
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- Harry W. Greene
- Museum of Vertebrates and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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Voss RS, Giarla TC, Díaz-Nieto JF, Jansa SA. A Revision of the Didelphid Marsupial Genus MarmosaPart 2. Species of the Rapposa Group (Subgenus Micoureus). BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 2020. [DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.439.1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Robert S. Voss
- Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Mammalogy), American Museum of Natural History
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas and Grupo de Investigación BEC, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; and J.F. Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
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Voss RS., Fleck DW, Jansa SA.. Mammalian Diversity and Matses Ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru Part 3: Marsupials (Didelphimorphia). BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 2019. [DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.432.1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Robert S . Voss
- Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Mammalogy) American Museum of Natural History
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- Division of Anthropology American Museum of Natural History
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; and J.F. Bell Museum of Natural History University of Minnesota
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Taxonomy of the pygmy marmoset (Cebuella Gray, 1866): Geographic variation, species delimitation, and nomenclatural notes. Mamm Biol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2018.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Rossi L, Gippoliti S, Angelici FM. The role of indirect evidence and traditional ecological knowledge in the discovery and description of new ape and monkey species since 1980. Primates 2018; 59:327-337. [PMID: 29868935 DOI: 10.1007/s10329-018-0667-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2017] [Accepted: 05/28/2018] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Although empirical data are necessary to describe new species, their discoveries can be guided from the survey of the so-called circumstantial evidence (that indirectly determines the existence or nonexistence of a fact). Yet this type of evidence, generally linked to traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), is often disputed by field biologists due to its uncertain nature and, on account of that, generally untapped by them. To verify this behavior and the utility of circumstantial evidence, we reviewed the existing literature about the species of apes and monkeys described or rediscovered since January 1, 1980 and submitted a poll to the authors. The results show that circumstantial evidence has proved to be useful in 40.5% of the examined cases and point to the possibility that its use could speed up the process at the heart of the discovery and description of new species, an essential step for conservation purposes.
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- Lorenzo Rossi
- Associazione Orango, via San Cristoforo 196, Cesena, 47522, Italy.
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- Società Italiana per la Storia della Fauna "Giuseppe Altobello", Viale Liegi 48, Rome, 00198, Italy
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Mere Roncal C, Bowler M, Gilmore MP. The ethnoprimatology of the Maijuna of the Peruvian Amazon and implications for primate conservation. JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY AND ETHNOMEDICINE 2018; 14:19. [PMID: 29514692 PMCID: PMC5842639 DOI: 10.1186/s13002-018-0207-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2017] [Accepted: 12/11/2017] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND In Amazonia, primates are not only an important food source but they also hold significant cultural and symbolic value for many indigenous groups. We document the relationship between primates and community members of the Maijuna indigenous community of Sucusari in the Peruvian Amazon and describe how ethnoprimatological studies provide a better understanding of the significance of primates in people's lives. Additionally, we explore how ethnoprimatological studies can help inform and enhance primate conservation initiatives. METHODS Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 50 residents of the community of Sucusari to assess the classification, cultural significance and traditional uses, beliefs, ceremonies and stories of primates within the Sucusari River basin. RESULTS Primates play an important role in the lives of individuals in the Sucusari community. They are distinguished by their arboreal lifestyle, and among the 11 species reported in the area, seven (Lagothrix lagotricha, Alouatta seniculus, Pithecia monachus, Callicebus spp., Saimiri sciureus, Leontocebus nigricollis) are highly recognized and culturally salient. Primates are used as food, medicine, pets, domestic tools and in the production of handicrafts. They are primarily hunted for local consumption, with larger primates such as L. lagotricha being preferred. Lagothrix lagotricha was also the most commonly reported pet species and the only observed pet primate in the community during surveys. Maijuna traditional beliefs include ancestral dietary taboos for A. seniculus, which are referred to as sorcerer monkeys, but this taboo is no longer fully adhered to. Maijuna traditional stories associated with primates describe the origin of primates found in Sucusari. CONCLUSION Primates are embedded in the intricate sociocultural system of the community of Sucusari. Better understanding the relationship between primates and people can help to focus conservation efforts on primate species of particularly high sociocultural importance as well as ecological value, such as L. lagotricha. We highly recommend the inclusion of ethnoprimatological studies into primate conservation initiatives to accomplish more effective conservation planning, ultimately integrating the goals of biodiversity conservation with the cultural and economic needs of indigenous and local communities.
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- Carla Mere Roncal
- Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA
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- Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Global, 15600 San Pasqual Valley Road, Escondido, CA 92027 USA
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- School of Integrative Studies, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA
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Voss RS, Díaz-Nieto JF, Jansa SA. A Revision ofPhilander(Marsupialia: Didelphidae), Part 1:P. quica,P. canus, and a New Species from Amazonia. AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES 2018. [DOI: 10.1206/3891.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Robert S. Voss
- Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Mammalogy), American Museum of Natural History
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas and Grupo de Investigación BEC, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; and J.F. Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota
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Voss RS, Fleck DW. Mammalian Diversity and Matses Ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru Part 2: Xenarthra, Carnivora, Perissodactyla, Artiodactyla, and Sirenia. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 2017. [DOI: 10.1206/00030090-417.1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Robert S. Voss
- Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Mammalogy) American Museum of Natural History
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- Division of Anthropology American Museum of Natural History
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Velazco PM, Soto-Centeno JA, Fleck DW, Voss RS, Simmons NB. A New Species of Nectar-Feeding Bat of the GenusHsunycteris(Phyllostomidae: Lonchophyllinae) from Northeastern Peru. AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES 2017. [DOI: 10.1206/3881.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Paúl M. Velazco
- Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Mammalogy), American Museum of Natural History
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- Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History
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- Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Mammalogy), American Museum of Natural History
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- Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Mammalogy), American Museum of Natural History
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Díaz-Nieto JF, Voss RS. A Revision of the Didelphid Marsupial Genus Marmosops, Part 1. Species of the Subgenus Sciophanes. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 2016. [DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090-402.1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Díaz-Nieto JF, Jansa SA, Voss RS. DNA sequencing reveals unexpected Recent diversity and an ancient dichotomy in the American marsupial genusMarmosops(Didelphidae: Thylamyini). Zool J Linn Soc 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Juan F. Díaz-Nieto
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior; University of Minnesota; 100 Ecology Building, 1987 Upper Buford Circle Saint Paul MN 55108 USA
- J.F. Bell Museum of Natural History; University of Minnesota; 100 Ecology Building, 1987 Upper Buford Circle Saint Paul MN 55108 USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior; University of Minnesota; 100 Ecology Building, 1987 Upper Buford Circle Saint Paul MN 55108 USA
- J.F. Bell Museum of Natural History; University of Minnesota; 100 Ecology Building, 1987 Upper Buford Circle Saint Paul MN 55108 USA
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- Division of Vertebrate Zoology; American Museum of Natural History; Central Park West at 79th Street New York NY 10024 USA
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Voss RS, Helgen KM, Jansa SA. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence: a comment on Cozzuol et al. (2013): Fig. 1. J Mammal 2014. [DOI: 10.1644/14-mamm-a-054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Hawes JE, Calouro AM, Peres CA. Sampling Effort in Neotropical Primate Diet Studies: Collective Gains and Underlying Geographic and Taxonomic Biases. INT J PRIMATOL 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s10764-013-9738-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Aquino R, Cornejo FM, Heymann EW. Primate abundance and habitat preferences on the lower Urubamba and Tambo rivers, central-eastern Peruvian Amazonia. Primates 2013; 54:377-83. [PMID: 23661029 PMCID: PMC3790251 DOI: 10.1007/s10329-013-0357-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2012] [Accepted: 04/24/2013] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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We report information on population density, group size, and habitat preferences of primates along the lower Río Urubamba and in the Río Urubamba–Río Tambo interfluvium, in central–eastern Peruvian Amazonia, an area that has been little explored with regard to its primate fauna. During 425 km of transect walks in October–November 2008 and April–May 2009 totally 174 groups of nine primate species were encountered, the most common being Callicebus brunneus (45 groups), Saguinus imperator (41 groups), and Aotus nigriceps (26 groups). Group sizes were smallest for A. nigriceps and C. brunneus (mean of 2.8 and 2.9, respectively) and largest for Saimiri boliviensis (mean 15.6). Population densities were lowest for Lagothrix cana (3.3 individuals/km2) and highest for A. nigriceps (31.1 individuals/km2). Groups of C. brunneus, S. imperator, S. boliviensis, Cebus albifrons, and Cebus apella were most frequently (83 % of sightings) encountered in semi-dense or in open primary forest that included stands of bamboo (Guadua sarcocarpa) or where bamboo was a very common species.
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- Rolando Aquino
- Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Apartado 575, Iquitos, Peru
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Voss RS, Hubbard C, Jansa SA. Phylogenetic Relationships of New World Porcupines (Rodentia, Erethizontidae): Implications for Taxonomy, Morphological Evolution, and Biogeography. AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES 2013. [DOI: 10.1206/3769.2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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