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E W Heymann1, C Knogge, E R Tirado Herrera
1Abteilung Verhaltensforschung und Okologie, Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Göttingen, Germany. eheyman@gwdg.de
Abstract:
Vertebrate predation was examined in sympatric moustached tamarins (Saguinus mystax) and saddle-back tamarins (Saguinus fuscicollis) in the Amazon rainforest of northeastern Peru. Both species prey on frogs and lizards, and very rarely on nestling birds. As a result of divergent foraging strategies, S. mystax primarily exploited frogs at higher strata of the forest, while S. fuscicollis predominantly preyed on reptiles in the lower strata and on the ground. This difference may strengthen the niche differentiation between these two tamarin species that exists with regard to other prey.
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