The social organizations of squirrel monkeys

Implications for ecological models of social evolution

Datos Bibliográficos

ID18945206
AutoresSue Boinski (autor de correspondencia)
Año1999
Volumen8
Número3
Páginas101-112
Fecha de publicación1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEvolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1060-1538 • E-ISSN: 1520-6505
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/(sici)1520-6505(1999)8:3<101::aid-evan5>3.0.co;2-o
OpenAlexW2057192299
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas31
Referencias citadas67

“Squirrel-monkeys occur in a considerable number of slightly different forms, but all are built upon a similar body plan and have a basic color scheme. One of the larger races—from inner Peru—is also the most colorful and one of the brightest colored of all mammals. It may be taken as a point of departure. The top of the head and the upper and outer parts of the body and the upper side of the basal half of the tail are a vivid green, with a pepper and salt effect of yellow and gray. The face is pure white except for black spectacles, muzzle and chin; the throat, chest, underside, insides of limbs, and the underside of the basal half of the tail are brilliant daffodil yellow. The terminal half of the tail is jet black and rather bushy. The flesh of the hands is pale pink. Other races vary in the intensity of the green and yellow, so that some may be olive brown above and white below, and in the amount and arrangement of the black areas on the face and the tip of the tail. Some have almost naked ears, others have these organs clothed in short fur, and still others bear thereupon long tufts or fringes. All these variations seem to blend into the other geographically . . . some of these pure color variations may constitute valid regional subspecies or even species. . . .” I. T. Sanderson1 (p. 77).

Biology · Evolutionary biology · Geography · Social evolution · Social organization · Sociology · Squirrel monkey · Zoology · Animal Behavior and Reproduction · Anthropology · Ecology · Primate Behavior and Ecology · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation