Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-gb8f7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-28T15:10:23.121Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Applying the bicoded spatial model to nonhuman primates in an arboreal multilayer environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2013

Allison M. Howard
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602–3013. [email protected]@uga.eduhttp://psychology.uga.edu/primate/
Dorothy M. Fragaszy
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602–3013. [email protected]@uga.eduhttp://psychology.uga.edu/primate/

Abstract

Applying the framework proposed by Jeffery et al. to nonhuman primates moving in multilayer arboreal and terrestrial environments, we see that these animals must generate a mosaic of many bicoded spaces in order to move efficiently and safely through their habitat. Terrestrial light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology and three-dimensional modelling of canopy movement may permit testing of Jeffery et al.'s framework in natural environments.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Bennett, D. A. & Tang, W. (2006) Modelling adaptive, spatially aware, and mobile agents: Elk migration in Yellowstone. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 20(9):1039–66. doi: 10.1080/13658810600830806.Google Scholar
Beraldin, J. A., Blais, F. & Lohr, U. (2010) Laser scanning technology. In: Airborne and terrestrial laser scanning, ed. Vosselman, G. & Maas, H., pp. 142. Whittles.Google Scholar
Channon, A. J., Crompton, R. H., Günther, M. M., D'Août, K. & Vereecke, E. E. (2010) The biomechanics of leaping in gibbons. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 143(3):403–16. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.21329.Google Scholar
Di Fiore, A. & Suarez, S. A. (2007) Route-based travel and shared routes in sympatric spider and woolly monkeys: Cognitive and evolutionary implications. Animal Cognition 10(3):317–29. doi: 10.1007/s10071-006-0067-y.Google Scholar
Howard, A., Bernardes, S., Nibbelink, N., Biondi, L., Presotto, A., Fragaszy, D. & Madden, M. (2012) A maximum entropy model of the bearded capuchin monkey habitat incorporating topography and spectral unmixing analysis. Annals of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 1(2):711.Google Scholar
Janson, C. H. (1998) Experimental evidence for spatial memory in foraging wild capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella . Animal Behaviour 55(5):1229–43. doi: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0688.Google Scholar
Janson, C. H. (2007) Experimental evidence for route integration and strategic planning in wild capuchin monkeys. Animal Cognition 10(3):341–56. doi:10.1007/s10071-007-0079-2.Google Scholar
Maas, H. (2010) Forestry applications. In: Airborne and terrestrial laser scanning, ed. Vosselman, G. & Maas, H., pp. 213–35. Whittles.Google Scholar
Mandel, J. T., Bildstein, K. L., Bohrer, G. & Winkler, D. W. (2008) Movement ecology of migration in turkey vultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105(49):19102–107. doi:10.1073/pnas.0801789105.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Normand, E. & Boesch, C. (2009) Sophisticated Euclidean maps in forest chimpanzees. Animal Behaviour 77(5):1195–201. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.01.025.Google Scholar
Noser, R. & Byrne, R. (2007a) Mental maps in chacma baboons (Papio ursinus): Using inter-group encounters as a natural experiment. Animal Cognition 10(3):331–40. doi: 10.1007/s10071-006-0068-x.Google Scholar
Noser, R. & Byrne, R. (2007b) Travel routes and planning of visits to out-of-sight resources in wild chacma baboons, Papio ursinus . Animal Behaviour 73(2):257–66. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.04.012.Google Scholar
Sueur, C. (2011) A non-Lévy random walk in chacma baboons: What does it mean? PloS ONE 6(1):e16131. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016131.Google Scholar
Taylor, C. & Caldwell, S. (1972) Running up and down hills: Some consequences of size. Science 178(4065):1096.Google Scholar
Valero, A. & Byrne, R. W. (2007) Spider monkey ranging patterns in Mexican subtropical forest: Do travel routes reflect planning? Animal Cognition 10(3):305–15. doi:10.1007/s10071-006-0066-z.Google Scholar