POSITIONAL BEHAVIOR AND BODY SIZE OF ARBOREAL PRIMATES - A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR FIELD STUDIES AND AN ILLUSTRATION OF ITS APPLICATION
POSITIONAL BEHAVIOR AND BODY SIZE OF ARBOREAL PRIMATES - A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR FIELD STUDIES AND AN ILLUSTRATION OF ITS APPLICATION
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DOI：
10.1002/ajpa.1330880302
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发表时间：
1992-07-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
CANT, JGH
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作者：
CANT, JGH
大多数对树栖灵长类动物位置行为的实地研究的基本原理是需要定量记录自然行为，以推断形态结构的功能意义。这种对形态与行为相互作用的关注是有道理的，但还存在另一个重要层次的生物关系，即动物与其结构栖息地的关系，它必须通过这种关系来寻找食物并避免被捕食。最近，很明显，身体尺寸可能会影响位置行为与栖息地结构以及形态的关系。在这里，我提供了一个关于位置行为、身体大小和栖息地结构的功能关系的研究框架，最终目标是阐明树栖灵长类动物所表现出的巨大多样性的适应性意义。这种方法详细说明了动物解决的几个不同问题，并表明研究如何旨在揭示不同灵长类动物解决这些问题的相对有效性。该框架的初步应用检查了同域北苏门答腊灵长类动物。
The rationale for most field studies of the positional behavior of arboreal primates has been the need to document natural behaviors quantitatively in order to infer the functional significance of morphological configurations. This focus on interactions of morphology with behavior is justifiable, but there exists another important level of biological relationships, that of the animal with its structural habitat, which it must negotiate to find food and avoid being preyed on. Recently it has become apparent that body size is likely to affect relationships of positional behavior with habitat structure, as well as with morphology. Here I offer a framework for research on functional relationships of positional behavior, body size, and habitat structure, with the ultimate objective of elucidating the aptive significance of the great diversity exhibited by arboreal primates. This approach specifies several distinct problems that animals solve, and indicates how research might be directed at revealing the relative effectiveness with which different primates solve them. A preliminary application of the framework examines sympatric north Sumatran primates.