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Conservation of the brown howler monkey in south-east Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Adriano Garcia Chiarello  and
Mauro Galetti
Adriano Garcia Chiarello
Affiliation:
AGG, Departamento de Zoologia, UNICAMP, CP 6109, 13083–970, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
Mauro Galetti
Affiliation:
Wildlife Research Group, University of Cambridge, Department of Anatomy, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DY, UK.
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The brown howler monkey Alouatta fusca once had a wide geographical distribution throughout a large part of the Atlantic forest in Brazil. Today only 5 per cent of these forests remain and the species is endangered. Howler monkeys can thrive in small forest fragments but they are more vulnerable to hunting, disease, and predation in these habitats than in undisturbed forests. Brown howler monkeys are important seed dispersers of several plant species, particularly in isolated forest fragments where specialized frugivores are absent. In protected areas without large predators howlers can reach high densities and the management of these populations is necessary to avoid inbreeding.

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Research Article
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Oryx , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , January 1994 , pp. 37 - 42
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1994

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