Sociality has been shown to have adaptive value for gregarious species, with more socially
integrated animals within groups experiencing higher reproductive success and longevity …

Objectives Direct comparative work in morphology and growth on widely dispersed wild
primate taxa is rarely accomplished, yet critical to understanding ecogeographic variation …

The crested porcupine is a mainly nocturnal mammal that shows both moonlight avoidance
and some diurnal motor activity, the latter as an extension of its night-time foraging …

Resting site selection can have important effects on the behaviour and fitness of organisms.
The maintenance of optimal body temperatures (T b) when faced with environmental …

We used implanted miniature data loggers to obtain the first measurements of body
temperature from a free-ranging anthropoid primate. Vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus …

Objectives Climate change is having a significant impact on biodiversity and increasing
attention is therefore being devoted to identifying the behavioral strategies that a species …

Regulation of body temperature poses significant problems for organisms that inhabit
environments with extreme and seasonally fluctuating ambient temperatures. To help …

Food abundance and climatic factors can significantly affect the behavior of animals and
constrain their activity budgets. The population of western black crested gibbons (Nomascus …

Objectives There is increasing evidence of male resource defense during intergroup
encounters in non‐human primates. Only few studies showed a reproductive benefit of …

Animals show various forms of behavioral thermoregulation to minimize cold stress. Given
that higher dominance rank is often associated with increased fitness in group-living …