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Volume 59, Issue 6, Pages 549-552Publisher
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-018-0688-1
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Callitrichidae; Saguinus mystax; Hylidae; Osteocephalus; Phyllomedusa
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- German Research Council
- Christian-Vogel-Fonds of the Gesellschaft fur Primatologie (GfP)
- Universitatsbund Gottingen
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We report temporal variation and an outbreak of frog predation by moustached tamarins, Saguinus mystax, in north-eastern Peruvian Amazonia. Frog predation rates were generally very low, but strongly increased in October 2015. Other high rates, identified by outlier analyses, were also observed in September-November of other years. Over all study years, predation rates in this 3-month period were significantly higher than those in the remainder of the year, suggesting a seasonal pattern of frog predation by tamarins. Reduced fruit availability or increased frog abundance or a combination of both may be responsible for both the seasonal pattern and the specific outbreak of frog predation.
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