Abstract
Six and a half years of data collected on the reproductive parameters of a population of free-rangingAteles geoffroyi show the following characteristics: seasonality of births; interbirth interval of ca. 32 months; nursing by infants for more than 2 years; and reproductive life span of females continuing beyond 20 years of age. These characteristics appear to reflect adaptations to a primary resource base, ripe fruit, that is very low in protein and patchily distributed in space and time in tropical forests.
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Milton, K. Estimates of reproductive parameters for free-rangingAteles geoffroyi . Primates 22, 574–579 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02381250
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