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Howler monkey foraging ecology suggests convergent evolution of routine trichromacy as an adaptation for folivory

Primates possess remarkably variable color vision, and the ecological and social factors shaping this variation remain heavily debated. Here, we test whether central tenants of the folivory hypothesis of routine trichromacy hold for the foraging ecology of howler monkeys. Howler monkeys (genus Aloua...

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Autores principales: Melin, Amanda D., Khetpal, Vishal, Matsushita, Yuka, Zhou, Kaile, Campos, Fernando A., Welker, Barbara, Kawamura, Shoji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5330884/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28261454
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2716