Predation on a Wild Spectral Tarsier (Tarsius spectrum) by a Snake

Gursky, Sharon

doi:10.1159/000060422

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“…This record, together with a number of other recent reports [Burney, 2002;Gursky, 2002;Tello et al, 2002], suggests that arboreal primates may be at least as vulnerable to attack by snakes as by raptors. However, the total number of records of any kind of attack remains prohibitively small for any systematic analysis of predation patterns in arboreal primates.…”

Section: Fatal Attack Of a Boa Constrictor On A Bearded Saki (Chiroposupporting

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“…One potentially important aspect is the social context. Mobbing is a characteristic response to snakes not only in platyrrhines [Chapman, 1986;Tello et al, 2002;Perry et al, 2003], but also in such divergent forms of primates as lemurs [Burney, 2002] and tarsiers [Gursky, 2002]. Few data are available for bearded sakis, but they do seem to react collectively towards predators [Peetz, 2001] and presumably exhibit typical primate behaviour in the presence of snakes.…”

Section: Fatal Attack Of a Boa Constrictor On A Bearded Saki (Chiropomentioning

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Fatal Attack of a Boa constrictoron a Bearded Saki (Chiropotes satanas utahicki)

Ferrari¹,

Pereira²,

Santos³

et al. 2004

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Section: Fatal Attack Of a Boa Constrictor On A Bearded Saki (Chiroposupporting

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Section: Fatal Attack Of a Boa Constrictor On A Bearded Saki (Chiropomentioning

confidence: 99%

Fatal Attack of a Boa constrictoron a Bearded Saki (Chiropotes satanas utahicki)

Ferrari¹,

Pereira²,

Santos³

et al. 2004

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“…Reticulated pythons frequently eat long-tailed macaques (Fig. 3) and silvered leaf monkeys (Trachopithecus cristatus) (17,42) as well as lorises (26) and tarsiers (27). Northern (P. sebae) and southern (P. natalensis) African pythons eat diverse vertebrates, including galagos (25), chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas) (37), red colobus monkeys (Procolobus badius) (40), mona monkeys (Cercopithecus mona) (41), and vervets (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) (42).…”

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Hunter–gatherers and other primates as prey, predators, and competitors of snakes

Headland

Greene

2011

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Relationships between primates and snakes are of widespread interest from anthropological, psychological, and evolutionary perspectives, but surprisingly, little is known about the dangers that serpents have posed to people with prehistoric lifestyles and nonhuman primates. Here, we report ethnographic observations of 120 Philippine Agta Negritos when they were still preliterate hunter–gatherers, among whom 26% of adult males had survived predation attempts by reticulated pythons. Six fatal attacks occurred between 1934 and 1973. Agta ate pythons as well as deer, wild pigs, and monkeys, which are also eaten by pythons, and therefore, the two species were reciprocally prey, predators, and potential competitors. Natural history data document snake predation on tree shrews and 26 species of nonhuman primates as well as many species of primates approaching, mobbing, killing, and sometimes eating snakes. These findings, interpreted within the context of snake and primate phylogenies, corroborate the hypothesis that complex ecological interactions have long characterized our shared evolutionary history.

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“…In contrast, in two recently reported cases of predation by constricting snakes on prosimians, the victims' conspecifics witnessing the attacks did not launch cooperative physical attacks to rescue them. Only one individual made physical contact with a python that had captured a spectral tarsier Tarsius spectrum [Gursky, 2002], though several other tarsiers mobbed it from a safe distance. Similarly, a boa that had captured a sifaka Propithecus verreauxi was mobbed but not physically attacked by the victim's groupmates [Burney, 2002].…”

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