LILACS – Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ciencias de la Salud

How visitation affects the behavior and welfare of different species of captive amazonian primates?

Leal, Liliane Monteiro; Souza, Luciane Lopes de; Santos, Lorena Sarmento dos.

Arq. Ciênc. Vet. Zool. UNIPAR (Online); 25 (1), 2022

This study had the purpose of understanding the effects of visitation on behavioral patterns and on the well-being of primates in captivity. Five Amazonian primate species were observed using the focal animal method: Ateles chamek, Ateles belzebuth, Ateles paniscus, Lagothrix cana, and Sapajus apella. Tw...

Conducta Animal, Bienestar del Animal, Sapajus, Atelinae, Brasil, Interacción Humano-Animal, Animales de Zoológico, Técnicas de Observación Conductual/estadística & datos numéricos

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Predation of Boana boans (Anura, Hylidae) by an opportunistic frugivorous primate

CAVALCANTE, Thiago; SIMÕES, Pedro Ivo; MOURTHE, Italo.

Acta amaz; 49 (4), 2019

Although relatively common among omnivorous primates, anurophagy is still poorly documented in frugivorous species. Here we report the predation of a giant gladiator treefrog (Boana boans) by a large arboreal frugivore, the gray woolly monkey (Lagothrix lagotricha cana). The predation event occurred in a...

Ecosistema Amazónico, Anuros, Atelinae, Primates, Dieta

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Occurrence of Dipetalonema gracile in a wild population of woolly monkey Lagothrix poeppiigii in the northeastern Peruvian Amazon

Conga, David Fernandez; Mayor, Pedro; Furtado, Adriano Penha; Giese, Elane Guerreiro; Santos, Jeannie Nascimento dos.

Rev. bras. parasitol. vet; 27 (2), 2018

Abstract Dipetalonema gracile (Rudolphi, 1809) (Filarioidea: Onchocercidae) is one of six species of cavities filarial parasites of Neotropical non-human primates. The present study recorded the occurrence of D. gracile, provides morphological and morphometric data and extends the geographical distributi...

Atelinae/parasitología, Dipetalonema/anatomía & histología, Dipetalonema/aislamiento & purificación, Microscopía Electrónica de Rastreo, Perú

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