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Time as a constraint on group size in spider monkeys
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An animal can only survive in a given habitat if it has enough time to find, process and digest food whilst avoiding predation. The time it has for food acquisition is affected by the vegetation and competition with conspecifics, which depends on aggregation tendencies. We used the relationships between time allocations, on the one hand, and climatic variables (as a proxy for habitat quality) and group size, on the other, to develop a model that predicts maximum ecologically tolerable group s...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Springer Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Journal website
- Volume:
- 60
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 683-694
- Publication date:
- 2006-09-01
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- EISSN:
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1432-0762
- ISSN:
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0340-5443
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- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:3211
- Deposit date:
- 2010-01-12
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- Copyright holder:
- Springer-Verlag
- Copyright date:
- 2006
- Notes:
- The full-text of this article is not available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. N.B. Professor Dunbar is now based at the School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford.
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