Titi monkeys

Titi monkeys

Order : Primates
Family : Cebidae
Subfamily : Callicebinae
Genus : Callicebus

Facts about the genus Callicebus, the titi monkeys

Callicebus is 160 days. (Full text)

Classification: Family Cebidae and subfamily Callicebinae, of which Callicebus is the only genus. (Full text)

suggests the high amount of animal protein in its diet relative to Callicebus is due to Orthopterans and Lepidopterans being more active and vocal at night, facilitating capture. (Full text)

Titi monkeys are largely folivorous, often feeding on the leaves of bamboo shoots. (Full text)

Titi monkeys are used primarily in biobehavioral studies of attachment and parental behavior. (Full text)

Behavior Masked titi monkeys are diurnal and arboreal forest dwellers (Nowak, 1999). (Full text)

Current distribution: Callicebus is continental and mostly distributed in Amazonian areas of South America (Fleagle, 1999). (Full text)

The precise phylogenetic position of Callicebus is uncertain but it is usually considered a close relative of Aotus (Ford, 1986), the Pitheciinae (Kay, 1994; Horovitz, 1999), or both (Rosenberger, 2002). (Full text)

Once considered a moderately diverse Neotropical genus, Callicebus is now emerging as one of the most diverse of all primate genera, competing with Saguinus for the largest number of taxa in the New World. (Full text)

(Illustration courtesy Stephen Nash/Conservation International) Titi monkeys are about the size of a small cat. (Full text)

Callicebus is one of several species of New World primates in which males and females share in caring for infants. (Full text)

Titi monkeys are about the size of a small cat. (Full text)

com From: Brad on 03/22/99 The Amazing World Of Lemurs, Monkeys, And Apes by Barbara Sleeper Part 33DUSKY TITI MONKEY (Callicebus donacophilus) Dusky titi monkeys are one of Three species of titi monkeys native to the tropical rain forests of South America. (Full text)

The Titi Monkeys are similar to the Douroucouli in that they have a primitive brain but they are diurnal and live in small family groups which occupy such small areas that their densities in some areas may reach the figure of 500 per square kilometre (c. (Full text)

Schwindt2 1Department of Anthropology, New York University, and the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP), 2Earth and Environmental Science Program, Department of Biology, New York University Titi monkeys are one of three genera of platyrrhine primates that typically live in ‘monogamous’ social groups. (Full text)

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Over 3300 primates including squirrel monkeys, pig-tailed macaques, bonnet macaques, crab-eating macaques, rhesus macaques, and titi monkeys are experimented on day in and day out. (Full text)

In the family Pithecidae, Callicebus is the basal genus. (Full text)

The taxonomy of the genus Callicebus is disputed (Hershkovitz, 1990; Groves, 2001; van Roosmalen, 2002), as is the identification of the animals from Davis and Kassel. (Full text)