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Active anti-predator behaviour of red titi monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus)
Sofya Dolotovskaya
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology Unit, German Primate Center,
Göttingen, Germany
Primate Genetics Laboratory, German Primate Center, Göttingen,
Germany
Camilo Flores Amasifuen
Estación Biológica Quebrada Blanco, Quebrada Blanco,
Río Tahuayo, Peru
Caroline Elisabeth Haas
Department of Sociobiology/Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Fabian Nummert
Department of Sociobiology/Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Eckhard W. Heymann
Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology Unit, German Primate Center,
Göttingen, Germany
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Reactions to predators vary a lot in primates and can be passive (hiding, fleeing) or active (mobbing, alarm calls). Due to their secretive lifestyle, Neotropical titi monkeys are thought to use mainly passive crypsis and hiding as anti-predator responses. Predator mobbing has been reported only for one titi species, Callicebus nigrifrons. We report mobbing of an ocelot and Boa constrictor in red titi monkeys and Plecturocebus cupreus, and alarm calling as a reaction to tayras and raptors.
Reactions to predators vary a lot in primates and can be passive (hiding, fleeing) or active...