Sarah Quayle DI512 Practical Research Project
CONTENTS
1.INTRODUCTION
1.1 The significance of biodiversity in relation to ecosystem functioning
1.2 Introduction to behavioural ecology
1.3 The significance of behavioural biology in conservation
1.4 Primate feeding ecology
1.5 Current Global Status of Primates
1.6 The effect of primate life history traits on extinction risk
1.7 Introduction to New World primates
1.8 Species description
1.9 Current status of Saimiri sciureus
1.10 Aim
2.1 Study site
2.2 Collection of data
2.3 ETHOGRAM
2.4 Analysis of data
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3.1 Overall Activity budgets
3.2 Comparison of am and pm activity budgets
3.3 Two-way chi-square test for AM and PM feeding frequencies
3.4 Overall feeding frequencies of food types consumed by the squirrel monkeys
3.5 Number of species consumed by Saimiri sciureus
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Saimiri Group size
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4.1 Overall activity budgets
4.2 Relative time spent in activities
4.3 Comparison of am and pm activity budgets
4.4 Feeding frequencies
4.5 Overall frequencies of food types consumed by the squirrel monkeys
4.6 Number of species consumed by Saimiri sciureus
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