Effects of Fruit Patch Availability on Feeding Subgroup Size and Spacing Patterns in Four Primate Species at Tinigua National Park, Colombia

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Summary

Ateles showed the weakest correlation between patch size and feeding party size, and their fission–fusion sociality is best explained as a mechanism to reduce intragroup competition rather than to adjust the subgroup size to the availability of patches.

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article
Published
1998-04-01
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Keywords

Animal ecology, Biology, Sociality, Cebidae, Competition (biology)

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