Vocal communication of white-footed tamarin (saguinus leucopus) in the wild

The white-footed tamarin, Saguinus leucopus, is an endemic primate of Colombia whose vocal communication has been little studied. For a period of a month we applied behavior sampling with continuous record, recording tamarins’ vocalizations, and the behavioral contexts associated with them. The stud...

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Autores:
Fuentes, Jesualdo Arturo
Zerda-Ordóñez, Enrique
Muñoz-Durán, Joao
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2013
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/72846
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/72846
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/37321/
Palabra clave:
bioacoustics
Callitrichidae
primates
vocal catalogue
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openAccess
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Summary:The white-footed tamarin, Saguinus leucopus, is an endemic primate of Colombia whose vocal communication has been little studied. For a period of a month we applied behavior sampling with continuous record, recording tamarins’ vocalizations, and the behavioral contexts associated with them. The study took place at the “José Celestino Mutis” forest in Mariquita, Tolima department (Colombia). We compiled a vocal catalogue showing some acoustic properties of the vocalizations (i.e. duration and frequency). We identified 19 phonemes associated with different behavioralcontexts. Young individuals emitted vocalizations of higher frequency than adults. We discuss the relevance of the tamarins’ acoustic displays on their social and ecologicalinteractions