• DOI:10.1007/s00265-005-0953-3
Corpus ID: 25637141

Seasonal variation in feeding behavior, competition and female social relationships in a forest dwelling guenon, the blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis stuhlmanni), in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya

@article{Pazol2005SeasonalVI,
  title={Seasonal variation in feeding behavior, competition and female social relationships in a forest dwelling guenon, the blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis stuhlmanni), in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya},
  author={K. Pazol and M. Cords},
  journal={Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology},
  year={2005},
  volume={58},
  pages={566-577}
}

K. Pazol, M. Cords

Published 2005

Biology

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Socioecological models relate differences in feeding strategies to variation in the nature of female social relationships. Among the African forest guenons, females consume large quantities of fruit and other plant reproductive parts, resources which are thought to promote contest competition, yet these monkeys have been characterized as having agonistically undifferentiated relationships in which rank, if discernible at all, does not correlate with fitness benefits. To determine whether female… CONTINUE READING

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