Artificial nest predation by brown howler monkeys (Alouatta guariba clamitans)

• Published in: European journal of wildlife research Vol. 60; no. 1; pp. 109 - 112
• Main Authors: Bicca-Marques, Júlio César, Silveira, Ivana Regina Rodrigues Irace, de Souza Martins, Leonel, Rabelo, Rafael Magalhães
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.02.2014; Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: adults; Alouatta; Alouatta caraya; Alouatta palliata; Animal populations; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Bird eggs; Brazil; dietary supplements; Ecology; Eggs; Feeding behavior; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management; Foraging behavior; habitats; Ingestion; invertebrates; Life Sciences; males; Mexico; Monkeys & apes; Nests; Original Paper; Predation; Primates; quails; Vegetarianism; Venezuela; Wildfowl; Zoology; Brazil; Venezuela; Mexico; Faunivory; Brazil; Neophobia; Egg-eating; Quail eggs; Food provisioning

Howler monkeys (Alouatta spp.) have long been considered strongly vegetarian primates. Their occasional ingestion of invertebrates has largely been interpreted as unintentional. Recent observations of the consumption of bird eggs by Alouatta caraya living in small and resource-impoverished habitat p...