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Feeding encounters between a group of howler monkeys and white-nosed coatis in a small forest fragment in Los Tuxtlas, Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2007

Norberto Asensio
Affiliation:
Research Centre in Evolutionary Anthropology and Palaeoecology, School of Biological and Earth Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, James Parsons Building, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK Centre Especial de Recerca en Primates. Barcelona. Spain
Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez
Affiliation:
División de Posgrado. Instituto de Ecología A. C., Xalapa, México
Jurgi Cristóbal-Azkarate
Affiliation:
Centre Especial de Recerca en Primates. Barcelona. Spain

Abstract

Interactions between sympatric species are of particular interest for understanding the mechanisms that allow animal coexistence in the ecological community. The mantled howler monkey (Alouatta palliata Gray) and the white-nosed coati (Nasua narica Linnaeus) are similar-sized mammals with a sympatric distribution in the Neotropics (Nowak 1999). Since these two species are partly frugivorous (howler, Crockett & Eisenberg 1987; coati, Gompper 1997), and fruit is often limited (Laurance et al. 2003), howlers and coatis might be observed foraging from the same fruiting tree, but there is no information regarding this possibility. We studied the feeding encounters between these two species in a small forest fragment, and discuss the conditions under which these episodes occur.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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