caa a22 4500 475768566 CHVBK 20180406123613.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005483815514 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005483815514 McGraw W. Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University, Mansfield Campus, 1680 University Drive, 44906, Mansfield, OH aut Positional Behavior of Cercopithecus petaurista [Elektronische Daten] [W. McGraw] I studied the positional behavior and habitat use of Cercopithecus petaurista, the lesser spot-nosed monkey, in the Ivory Coast's Taï Forest for 15 months. I compare these data with similar information collected on sympatric groups of Cercopithecus diana and C. campbelli in order to examine further the relationships between locomotion, posture, support use, stratal use, body size, diet, activity patterns and foraging behavior. Spot-nosed monkeys are predominantly quadrupedal primates that frequent the top layer of the understory during all maintenance activities. Locomotion is characteristically slow and cautious; travel takes place on branches and boughs while foraging occurs on twigs and branches. Postural behavior of Cercopithecus petaurista reflects their reliance on more ubiquitously distributed, less mobile food items. The relationship between body size, climbing, leaping and support use among Taï guenons is weak; interspecific differences are more likely functions of strata use and overall behavioral characteristics, e.g. crypticity. I also compare the locomotion and support use of Cercopithecus petaurista with that of C. ascanius from Uganda's Kibale Forest (Gebo and Chapman, 1995a) in order to assess the behavioral similarity of members of the same superspecies. Although overall support use is quite similar, the monkeys differ significantly in frequencies of quadrupedism, leaping and climbing. I present possible reasons for and implications of these differences. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 locomotion nationallicence posture nationallicence habitat use nationallicence body size nationallicence Cercopithecus petaurista nationallicence International Journal of Primatology Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/1(2000-02-01), 157-182 0164-0291 21:1<157 2000 21 10764 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005483815514 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005483815514 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- McGraw W. Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University, Mansfield Campus, 1680 University Drive, 44906, Mansfield, OH aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Primatology Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/1(2000-02-01), 157-182 0164-0291 21:1<157 2000 21 10764 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer