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An Ontogenetic Framework for Alouatta: Infant Development and Evaluating Models of Life History

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Howler Monkeys

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Abstract

This review investigates the ontogeny of the genus Alouatta, with the goal of determining whether howler monkey development follows a “fast-slow” continuum or whether individual life history features are dissociable from one another. Data indicate that while many aspects of howler life history are relatively accelerated compared to other atelines, a consideration of only the end parameters (e.g., age at weaning) obscures important variation within each trait. Moreover, sexual dimorphism in the pace and timing of Alouatta developmental events (e.g., somatic and craniodental maturation) provides support for a framework of life history dissociability. Based on these results, we propose a life history model for Alouatta ontogeny that recognizes that within the context of an overall rapid development, dissociabilities occur both among and within individual life history parameters.

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Este trabajo revisa la ontogenia del género Alouatta, con el objetivo de determinar si el desarrollo de los monos aulladores procede de una manera continua o si las características individuales de historia de vida son disociables unas de otras. Los datos presentados indican que aunque muchos aspectos de la historia de vida de los monos aulladores son relativamente acelerados comparados con otros atelinos, cuando sólo se consideran los parámetros del final del proceso (por ejemplo, edad al destete) variación importante que existe dentro de cada variable se oscurece. Además, el dimorfismo sexual en el ritmo y tiempo de las distintas etapas de desarrollo de Alouatta (por ejemplo, la maduración somática y craniodental) apoya el marco teórico de la disociabilidad de la historia de vida. Con estos resultados proponemos un modo de historia de vida para la ontogenia de Alouatta el cual reconoce que dentro del contexto general de un desarrollo rápido, existe disociabilidad entre y dentro los parámetros individuales de historia de vida.

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Acknowledgments

Melissa Raguet-Schofield thanks Drs. Steve Leigh, Paul Garber, Martín Kowalewski, and E.A. Quinn, all research assistants, field station staff, Eduardo Gonzalez, and Rob and William Raguet-Schofield. MR’s project was funded by the National Science Foundation (DDIG 0622411), the Graduate College at University of Illinois, a Beckman Institute CS/AI Fellowship, Idea Wild, and Sigma Xi (Grant-in-Aid of Research). Romina Pavé thanks Drs. Martin Kowalewski and Gabriel Zunino and all field assistants, especially M. Amparo Perez Rueda, Dana Banega, and Nancy Lopez. RP’s project was funded by the American Society of Mammalogists, Idea Wild, Zoo of Barcelona, and the National Council of Research and Technology of Argentina (CONICET).

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  3. Museum of Zoology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

    Liliana Cortés-Ortiz

  4. Centro de Antropología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela

    Bernardo Urbani

  5. Department of Zoology, Aristotle University of Thessalonik, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Dionisios Youlatos

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Raguet-Schofield, M., Pavé, R. (2015). An Ontogenetic Framework for Alouatta: Infant Development and Evaluating Models of Life History. In: Kowalewski, M., Garber, P., Cortés-Ortiz, L., Urbani, B., Youlatos, D. (eds) Howler Monkeys. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1957-4_11

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