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McLester, E, Sweeney, K, Stewart, FA and Piel, AK (2018) Leopard (Panthera pardus) predation on a red-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius) in the Issa Valley, western Tanzania. Primates. ISSN 0032-8332
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Abstract
Predation is predicted to be an important selection pressure for primates. Evidence for this hypothesis is rare, however, due to the scarcity of direct observations of primate predation. We describe an observation of leopard (Panthera pardus) predation on a red-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius schmidti) at the Issa Valley, a savanna-woodland mosaic landscape in western Tanzania. We compare rates of evidence of leopard presence between Issa and other primate study sites in sub-Saharan Africa. An increase in direct observations of leopards at Issa in recent years suggests that leopards may be habituating to researcher presence.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 0608 Zoology |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QL Zoology |
| Divisions: | Natural Sciences & Psychology (closed 31 Aug 19) |
| Publisher: | Springer |
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| Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2018 12:20 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 02:10 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1007/s10329-018-0700-9 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/9705 |
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