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Until recently, most published references on wild populations of the two recognized species of woolly monkeys (Fooden 1963) — the common (or Humboldt’s, ‘smokey’ or ‘lowland’) woolly monkey, Lagothrix lagotricha, and the yellow-tailed (or Hendee’s) woolly monkey, L. flavicauda — had come from short-term observations (Durham 1975, Kavanagh and Dresdale 1975, Ramirez 1980, 1988, Freese et al. 1982, Johns 1986, Peres 1990, 1991a). Little ecological data are available on L. flavicauda — a montane species endemic to the cloud forests of an isolated Andean mountain range in northern Peru—for this species is yet to be studied systematically (but see naturalistic accounts byGraves and O’Neill 1980, Parker and Barkley 1981, Leo Luna 1984, 1987). In comparison, several long-term socioecological studies have addressed other ateline genera (e.g. Klein and Klein 1975, van Roosmalen 1985, Symington 198, Strier 1987, Chapman 1990, see Strier 1992 for a review), which have inevitably overrepresented most of what is known of the biology of the largest-bodied platyrrhine subfamily (ateline taxonomy follows Napier and Napier 1967, including only Ateles, Lagothrix, and Brachyteles).
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Peres, C.A. (1996). Use of Space, Spatial Group Structure, and Foraging Group Size of Gray Woolly Monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha cana) at Urucu, Brazil. In: Norconk, M.A., Rosenberger, A.L., Garber, P.A. (eds) Adaptive Radiations of Neotropical Primates. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8770-9_27
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