Insights into social relationships among female black howler monkeys Alouatta pigra at Palenque National Park, Mexico

摘要: Wild animals use their habitat according to ecological pressures such as predation, resource availability or temperature, yet little is known about how individuals environment in semi free-ranging conditions. We assessed whether a semi-free ranging group of Tonkean macaques Macaca tonkeana used its wooded parkland heterogeneous way. GIS and GPS were determine adjusted behaviors variation environmental constraints over time day the course year. demonstrated that social resting activities occurred high altitude areas with density bushes, whereas foraged where bushes grass was low. In general, exposed sun not on slope. Semi-free seemed behave like wild counterparts terms activity budget, land per thermoregulation