Mosaic Evolution of Activity Pattern, Diet, and Color Vision in Haplorhine Primates

摘要: One important component of an animal’s niche is the temporal axis, or daily activity pattern (e.g., Kronfeld-Schor et al., 2001). Numerous studies have shown that constraint on behavior and ecology primate species. Activity correlated with resource availability, predation pressure, social structure, mating system, diet, among other factors. Dissimilar patterns, such as diurnality nocturnality, may allow even ecologically similar species to partition their environments thereby eliminate direct competition between them (Kronfeld-Schor Dayan, 1999; Nocturnal primates are often insectivorous frugivorous, never habitually terrestrial, tend be solitary cryptic live in small, monogamous groups (Clutton-Brock Harvey, 1977; Crook Gartlan, 1966; Janson, 1992; Terborgh 1986). Conversely, diurnal more frugivorous folivorous, arboreal larger diverse complex systems