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Habitat Use and Ranging Behavior of Callimico goeldii

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We studied the diet, habitat use, and ranging behavior of 1 group of Callimico goeldii (callimicos) over 12 mo in northwestern Bolivia. The group’s diet was comprised of fungi (39%), fruits (31%), arthropods (14%), exudates (14%), and other matter (2%). Callimicos concentrated their ranging activities in secondary forest (50%), primary forest with dense understory (30%), and bamboo (17%) habitats. The group’s total home range was 114 ha; on average they used 38.4 ha/ mo and had a day range of 925 m. Monthly average day ranges—but not monthly home ranges—increased as frugivory declined, suggesting that subjects foraged on fungi and exudates by rechecking resources within a core area, making their day ranges longer than during months when they concentrated on fruit resources. The callimicos formed polyspecific associations with tamarins (Saguinus labiatus and S. fuscicollis) during 81% of observations. Day ranges increased in months with higher association rates which appears to result from the callimicos using a broader set of habitats when with tamarins than when alone. The ranging pattern of callimicos appears to be influenced primarily by 3 factors: their seasonal shift in diet requires that they forage in a variety of habitats across the year; their depletion of resources causes them to shift their core area over time; and their lack of territorial behavior eliminates the need to patrol boundaries as part of their daily movement. As a result, callimicos differ from many other callitrichids in their low ratio of day range length to home range size.

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Acknowledgments

This project was made possible with funding from the Chicago Zoological Society, the Margot Marsh Biodiversity Fund, the Primate Action Fund of Conservation International, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. We thank Edilio Nacimento and Julio Flores for their help in habituation of the study group, and Edilio Nacimento, Ruddy Cuadiay, Ruht Cuadiay, Carlos Amotari, Roxana Vilca, Gilda Ticona, and Erica Berloz for their help with data collection, and Fransisco Brilhante for his help cutting and maintaining trails. We thank Sarah Garner for her help with data entry. P. A. Garber thanks Sara, Jenni, and Chrissie for their love and continued support. We thank the Colección Boliviana de Fauna, and the Bolivian government for their permission to conduct the research.

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    Sarah M. Sterr

  3. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 109 Davenport Hall, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    Paul A. Garber

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Porter, L.M., Sterr, S.M. & Garber, P.A. Habitat Use and Ranging Behavior of Callimico goeldii . Int J Primatol 28, 1035–1058 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-007-9205-x

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