Seasonal variation and an "outbreak" of frog predation by tamarins
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Seasonal variation and an "outbreak" of frog predation by tamarins
Lüffe, T. M.; Tirado Herrera, E. R.; Nadjafzadeh, M.; Berles, P.; Smith, A. C.; Knogge, C. & Heymann, E. W. (2018)
Primates; journal of primatology, 59(6) pp. 549-552. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-018-0688-1
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- Authors
- Lüffe, Teresa Magdalena; Tirado Herrera, Emerita R.; Nadjafzadeh, Mirjam; Berles, Patricia; Smith, Andrew C.; Knogge, Christoph; Heymann, Eckhard W.
- Abstract
- We report temporal variation and an "outbreak" of frog predation by moustached tamarins, Saguinus mystax, in north-eastern Peruvian Amazonia. Frog predation rates were generally very low, but strongly increased in October 2015. Other high rates, identified by outlier analyses, were also observed in September-November of other years. Over all study years, predation rates in this 3-month period were significantly higher than those in the remainder of the year, suggesting a seasonal pattern of frog predation by tamarins. Reduced fruit availability or increased frog abundance or a combination of both may be responsible for both the seasonal pattern and the specific "outbreak" of frog predation.
- Issue Date
- 2018
- Journal
- Primates; journal of primatology
- Organization
- Abteilung Soziobiologie / Anthropologie ; Deutsches Primatenzentrum
- ISSN
- 0032-8332; 1610-7365
- eISSN
- 1610-7365
- Language
- English
