Interspecific interactions between wild black and gold howlermonkeys (Alouatta caraya) and other mammals in northeastern Argentina

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• 作者：Vanina A. Fernández ; Romina Pavé ; Silvana M. Peker ; Maria A. Pérez-Rueda
• 关键词：Agonistic interactions ; Play ; Tolerance ; Community ; Howler monkeys
• 刊名：acta ethologica
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：20
• 期：1
• 页码：17-26
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• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Behavioral Sciences; Zoology; Evolutionary Biology;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1437-9546
• 卷排序：20

文摘

We studied the interactions between wild black and gold howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya) and other mammals at three sites with different human disturbance levels and forest structures in northeastern Argentina. The main goal was to evaluate the effects of the study site and type of interaction (agonistic or non-agonistic) on the rate of interaction. In addition, we also described the associations between interspecific interaction rate, species involved, howler monkeys’ activity, and seasonality. We present 50 group-years for 14 groups, collected between 2003 and 2012. We registered a total of 29 interactions (0.22 ± 0.26 interactions/100 h). Most interactions (56.7%) were agonistic (12% of high intensity and 88% of low intensity), 41.9% were neutral, and 1.5% were affiliative. We found that both factors, site and type of interaction, have an effect on the rate of interaction. Interspecific interactions were more frequent at the two sites without human settlement than in the rural site. Interspecific interactions occurred during resting (46.73%), traveling (27.40%), and feeding (25.87%). Interactions occurred throughout the year but were concentrated in August (late winter) and September (beginning of spring). Our results suggest that both site and type of interaction affected the rate of interaction between howler monkeys and other mammals in northeastern Argentina. Agonistic interactions were more frequent that non-agonistic ones, and monkeys reacted agonistically to several mammalian species, but these interactions were mainly of low intensity.