Social-ecological analysis of two species of capuchin monkeys (Cebus xanthosternos and Cebus libidinosus) in different habitats, Atlantic Forest and mangroves

• Grant number: 10/51455-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Duration: April 01, 2011 - March 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Animal Behavior
• Principal Investigator: Patrícia Izar Mauro
• Grantee: Patrícia Izar Mauro
• Host Institution: Instituto de Psicologia (IP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Socioecology applies the principles of behavioral ecology to investigate the evolution of the diversity of primates social systems. With this approach, we seek to identify correlations between environmental variables, such as resource distribution and frequency of interindividual competition, and social behavior. The genus Cebus has a wide geographical distribution and occupies diverse habitats, which demonstrates the great adaptive success of the genus. Several studies show the behavioral flexibility of Cebus regarding foraging behavior, with respect to diet and food handling techniques, including tool use, but studies that examine the variability of social relationships in capuchin monkeys as a relevant element for the ability to occupy different habitats are rare. The aim of this project is to continue the socioecological analysis of social behavior and ecology of different populations and species of Cebus, developed at the Department of Experimental Psychology for about ten years, investigating two new populations living in areas with different characteristics to those already in study: Cebus xanthosternos in the Atlantic Forest, in southern Bahia, and Cebus libidinosus in mangrove area, south of Maranhão. This study will contribute to investigate in what extent the social behavior of primates is adaptive, thus flexible and contingent to the current ecological determinants, and in what extent is an adaptation, therefore limited by norms of social reaction selected in the past. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

IZAR, PATRICIA; FERNANDEZ-BOLANOS, MARCELO; SEEX, LAUREN; GORT, GERRIT; SUSCKE, PRISCILA; TOKUDA, MARCOS; MENDONCA-FURTADO, OLIVIA; VERDERANE, MICHELE P.; HEMELRIJK, CHARLOTTE K.. Female emancipation in a male dominant, sexually dimorphic primate under natural conditions. PLoS One, v. 16, n. 4, APR 19 2021. (14/13237-1, 10/51455-0, 10/51252-1, 09/51589-9)

SUSCKE, PRISCILA; PRESOTTO, ANDREA; IZAR, PATRICIA. The role of hunting on Sapajus xanthosternos' landscape of fear in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY, v. 83, n. 5, MAR 2021. (10/51252-1, 10/51455-0)