Thermoregulation influence on ecology and behavior from Callicebus nigrifrons (Primates: Pitheciidae)

• Grant number: 10/04034-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2010
• End date: February 29, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology
• Principal Investigator: Eleonore Zulnara Freire Setz
• Grantee: Carla Cristina Gestich
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biologia (IB). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The body temperature maintenance in endotherms animals involve considerable metabolic costs that can be reduced through some behaviors. In primates, several evidences of behavioral thermoregulation were pointed, for example, body posture change and favorable microhabitat selection. Studies also showed a variation on feed pattern, but the relation between thermoregulation and diet is little known. The energetic cost of thermoregulation is determined by ambient variation, and it alters the animal metabolism what interferes on all of its activities, that means, in its behavioral pattern. Hence, a study about the thermoregulation influence on food selection and on others behaviors is necessary. In this way, this work intends to investigate the influence of thermoregulation on titi-monkeys (Callicebus nigrifrons) group behaviors in region of important climatic variation, looking for connection between temperature and these behavioral patterns: behavioral postures; microhabitat selection; types of food consumed; and locomotion. The proportion of time for each activity will be compared along the day and among the seasons, to check the relations with temperature variation. (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)

GESTICH, CARLA CRISTINA; NAGY-REIS, MARIANA B.; CASELLI, CHRISTINI BARBOSA. From dropping to dropping: The contribution of a small primate to seed dispersal in Atlantic Forest. ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, v. 100, OCT 2019. (09/12124-0, 08/05127-0, 10/04034-9)

SOUZA-ALVES, JOAO PEDRO; CASELLI, CHRISTINI B.; GESTICH, CARLA C.; NAGY-REIS, MARIANA B.. Should I store, or should I sync? The breeding strategy of two small Neotropical primates under predictable resource availability. PRIMATES, v. 60, n. 2, p. 113-118, MAR 2019. (09/12124-0, 10/04034-9, 08/05127-0)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

GESTICH, Carla Cristina. Temperature influence on ecology and behavior of Callicebus nigrifrons (Primates: Pithecilidae). 2012. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia Campinas, SP.