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Rare Monkey Adapts to Fragmented Habitat by Dieting and Reducing Activity
Newswise — A team of experts with the Wildlife Conservation Culture (WCS) and Oxford Brookes College discovered that a scarce species of monkey in Bolivia has tailored to living in a fragmented forest by dieting and shifting considerably less in the course of lean periods. Publishing their effects in the Intercontinental Journal of Primatology, the workforce say that Olalla’s titi monkey (Plecturocebus olallae), follows an energy–area reducing system that could permit it to inhabit a forest-savanna landscape in the southwestern part of the Llanos de Moxos – the largest wetland in the Amazon. The team noticed a shift in eating plan absent from fruits in the course of the dry…