Movement Ecology of Neotropical Forest Mammals : Focus on Social Animals

This book brings a unique perspective to animal movement studies because all cases came from tropical environments where the great diversity, either biological and structurally (trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes), presents the animal with several options to fulfill its live requirements. These conditions have forced the evolution of unique movement patterns and ecological strategies. Movement is an essential process in the life of all organisms. Animals move because they are hungry, thirsty, to avoid being eaten, or because they want to find mates. Understanding the causes and consequences of animal movement is not an easy task for behavioural ecologists. Many animals are shy, move in secretive ways and are very sensible to human presence, therefore, studying the movements of mammals in tropical environments present logistical and methodological challenges that have recently started to be solved by ecologist around the world. In this book we are compiling a set of extraordinary cases where researchers have used some of the modern technology and the strongest methodological approaches to understand movement patterns in wild tropical mammals. We hope this book will inspire and encourage young researchers to investigate wild mammal ́s movements in some of the amazing tropical environments of the world. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Why Movement Ecology Matters (Colin A. Chapman, Rafael Reyna-Hurtado)....Pages 1-3 The Impact of Hurricane Otto on Baird’s Tapir Movement in Nicaragua’s Indio Maíz Biological Reserve (Christopher A. Jordan, Brendan Hoover, Armando J. Dans, Cody Schank, Jennifer A. Miller)....Pages 5-19 White-Lipped Peccary Home-Range Size in the Maya Forest of Guatemala and México (José Fernando Moreira-Ramírez, Rafael Reyna-Hurtado, Mircea Hidalgo-Mihart, Eduardo J. Naranjo, Milton C. Ribeiro, Rony García-Anleu et al.)....Pages 21-37 White-Lipped Peccary Movement and Range in Agricultural Lands of Central Brazil (Maria Luisa S. P. Jorge, Alexine Keuroghlian, Jennifer Bradham, Júlia Emi F. Oshima, Milton Cezar Ribeiro)....Pages 39-55 Movements of White-Lipped Peccary in French Guiana (Cécile Richard-Hansen, Rachel Berzins, Matthis Petit, Ondine Rux, Bertrand Goguillon, Luc Clément)....Pages 57-75 Spatial Ecology of a Large and Endangered Tropical Mammal: The White-Lipped Peccary in Darién, Panama (Ninon F. V. Meyer, Ricardo Moreno, Miguel Angel Martínez-Morales, Rafael Reyna-Hurtado)....Pages 77-93 Movements of Neotropical Forest Deer: What Do We Know? (Francisco Grotta-Neto, José Maurício Barbanti Duarte)....Pages 95-109 Daily Traveled Distances by the White-Tailed Deer in Relation to Seasonality and Reproductive Phenology in a Tropical Lowland of Southeastern Mexico (Fernando M. Contreras-Moreno, Mircea G. Hidalgo-Mihart, Wilfrido M. Contreras-Sánchez)....Pages 111-123 Terrestrial Locomotion and Other Adaptive Behaviors in Howler Monkeys (Alouatta pigra) Living in Forest Fragments (Juan Carlos Serio-Silva, Ricarda Ramírez-Julián, Timothy M. Eppley, Colin A. Chapman)....Pages 125-140 Variation in Space Use and Social Cohesion Within and Between Four Groups of Woolly Monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii) in Relation to Fruit Availability and Mating Opportunities at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador (Kelsey Ellis, Anthony Di Fiore)....Pages 141-171 Home Range and Daily Traveled Distances of Highland Colombian Woolly Monkeys (Lagothrix lagothricha lugens): Comparing Spatial Data from GPS Collars and Direct Follows (Leidy Carolina García-Toro, Andrés Link, Elsy Johanna Páez-Crespo, Pablo R. Stevenson)....Pages 173-193 Ranging Responses to Fruit and Arthropod Availability by a Tufted Capuchin Group (Sapajus apella) in the Colombian Amazon (Carolina Gómez-Posada, Jennifer Rey-Goyeneche, Elkin A. Tenorio)....Pages 195-215 Insights of the Movements of the Jaguar in the Tropical Forests of Southern Mexico (J. Antonio de la Torre, Marina Rivero)....Pages 217-241 Movements and Home Range of Jaguars (Panthera onca) and Mountain Lions (Puma concolor) in a Tropical Dry Forest of Western Mexico (Rodrigo Nuñez-Perez, Brian Miller)....Pages 243-262 Next Moves: The Future of Neotropical Mammal Movement Ecology (Rafael Reyna-Hurtado, Colin A. Chapman)....Pages 263-267 Back Matter ....Pages 269-274 This book brings a unique perspective to animal movement studies because all cases came from tropical environments where the great diversity, either biological and structurally (trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes), presents the animal with several options to fulfill its live requirements. These conditions have forced the evolution of unique movement patterns and ecological strategies. Movement is an essential process in the life of all organisms. Animals move because they are hungry, thirsty, to avoid being eaten, or because they want to find mates. Understanding the causes and consequences of animal movement is not an easy task for behavioural ecologists. Many animals are shy, move in secretive ways and are very sensible to human presence, therefore, studying the movements of mammals in tropical environments present logistical and methodological challenges that have recently started to be solved by ecologist around the world. In this book we are compiling a set of extraordinary cases where researchers have used some of the modern technology and the strongest methodological approaches to understand movement patterns in wild tropical mammals. We hope this book will inspire and encourage young researchers to investigate wild mammalþs movements in some of the amazing tropical environments of the world