Articles | Volume 2, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-2-21-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-2-21-2015
Short communication
 | 
12 Jun 2015
Short communication |  | 12 Jun 2015

Dry season drinking from terrestrial man-made watering holes in arboreal wild Temminck's red colobus, The Gambia

A. P. Hillyer, R. Armstrong, and A. H. Korstjens

Cited articles

Butynski, T. M., Grubb, P., and Kingdon, J.: Procolobus badius (Western red colobus), in: The Mammals of Africa, edited by: Butynski, T. M., Kingdon, J., and Kalina, J., Vol. 2, Bloomsbury publishing, London, UK, 128–134, 2013.
Chapman, C.: Patterns of foraging and range use by three species of neotropical primates, Primates, 29, 177–194, 1988.
Galat, G., Galat-Luong, A., and Nizinski, G.: Increasing dryness and regression of the geographical range of Temminck's red colobus Procolobus badius temminckii: implications for its conservation, Mammalia, 73, 365–368, 2009.
Galat-Luong, A. and Galat, G.: Conservation and survival adaptations of Temminck's red colobus (Procolobus badius temmincki), in Senegal, Int. J. Primatol., 26, 585–603, 2005.
Gilbert, K. A. and Stouffer, P. C.: Use of a ground water source by mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata), Biotropica, 21, p. 380, 1989.
Download
Short summary
Terrestrial drinking is not normally reported for arboreal primates. Here we report observations of terrestrial drinking from man-made watering holes by Temminck’s red colobus (Piliocolobus badius temminckii) at two sites in The Gambia. Our observations show that shallow man-made watering holes, not harbouring predators, were used by different age classes. The implications of this behaviour for this endangered subspecies and the trend of increasing temperatures in The Gambia are discussed.
Share