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Estimates of reproductive parameters for free-rangingAteles geoffroyi

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Six and a half years of data collected on the reproductive parameters of a population of free-rangingAteles geoffroyi show the following characteristics: seasonality of births; interbirth interval of ca. 32 months; nursing by infants for more than 2 years; and reproductive life span of females continuing beyond 20 years of age. These characteristics appear to reflect adaptations to a primary resource base, ripe fruit, that is very low in protein and patchily distributed in space and time in tropical forests.

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  1. Katharine Milton

    Present address: Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.

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    Milton, K. Estimates of reproductive parameters for free-rangingAteles geoffroyi . Primates 22, 574–579 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02381250

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