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Caraya are reported to eat leaves , fruit , insects , and wild bee honey . The
opinion was current that the animals might descend to the ground to rob corn
fields , but Azara did not observe this action . He gives a creditable account of the
general ...
Caraya are reported to eat leaves , fruit , insects , and wild bee honey . The
opinion was current that the animals might descend to the ground to rob corn
fields , but Azara did not observe this action . He gives a creditable account of the
general ...
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They are supposed to feed on fruit , grain , and insects . The story continues to
the effect that if one is wounded , the rest of the group assembles around it and “
clap their fingers into the wound . If then the blood flows in any quantity they keep
it ...
They are supposed to feed on fruit , grain , and insects . The story continues to
the effect that if one is wounded , the rest of the group assembles around it and “
clap their fingers into the wound . If then the blood flows in any quantity they keep
it ...
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Their food , Rengger observes , consisted principally of leaves and buds , but
also of fruits and insects . In emergencies , the animals might eat bark . They are
reported to be strictly arboreal , for Rengger sat neither the animals nor their ...
Their food , Rengger observes , consisted principally of leaves and buds , but
also of fruits and insects . In emergencies , the animals might eat bark . They are
reported to be strictly arboreal , for Rengger sat neither the animals nor their ...
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Contents
R CARPENTER | 2 |
Review of literature on the natural history of howling monkeys | 12 |
Field procedures and reactions of howlers to an observer | 21 |
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| Title | A Field Study of the Behavior and Social Relations of Howling Monkeys, 48. number A Field Study of the Behavior and Social Relations of Howling Monkeys, Clarence Ray Carpenter Comparative psychology monographs |
| Author | Clarence Ray Carpenter |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins Press, 1934 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 13 nov. 2008 |
| ISBN | 0598811028, 9780598811028 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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