Sleeping tree species selection and patterns of sleeping site use in a wild group of Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti) at Jinsichang, Lijiang, China

REN Baoping; WU Ruidong; LI Dayong; Paul A. Garber; LI Ming

doi:10.16829/j.slxb.150813

2024 , Vol. 44 >Issue 1: 37 - 49

DOI: https://doi.org/10.16829/j.slxb.150813

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Sleeping tree species selection and patterns of sleeping site use in a wild group of Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti) at Jinsichang, Lijiang, China

REN Baoping ,
WU Ruidong ,
LI Dayong ,
Paul A. Garber ,
LI Ming

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1 Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Ecology of Tropical Islands, Key Laboratory of Tropical Animal and Plant Ecology of Hainan Province, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158, China;
2 Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;
3 Institute of International Rivers and Eco-security, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China;
4 College of Life Sciences, China West Normal University, Nanchong 637009, China;
5 Department of Anthropology and Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA;
6 International Centre of Biodiversity and Primate Conservation, Dali University, Dali 671003, China;
7 Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China

Received date: 2023-06-09

Revised date: 2023-10-08

Online published: 2024-01-25

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The Biodiversity Survey and Assessment Project of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China [grant numbers 2019HJ2096001006], and TNC China Program [2002-2004]

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Abstract

Studies of sleeping site use in wild primates offer insights into species-specific patterns of ranging and habitat utilization. From December 2003 to October 2004, we recorded sleeping site use in a wild group of 180 Yunnan snubnosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti) at Jinsichang, Lijiang City, Yunnan Province, China. A programmed auto-released GPS collar was used to track the movements of the monkeys. We obtained 272 GPS nighttime locations and visually confirmed 131 sleeping sites within the group’s 17. 8 km² home range. Seventy (53. 4%) sleeping sites were used on only one occasion, whereas the remaining 61 (46. 6%) were used between 2 and 9 times over the 11-month tracking period. On three occasions the monkeys slept in the same site during three consecutive nights and on 16 occasions they reused the same sleeping site on two consecutive nights. Re-use of sleeping areas over consecutive nights accounted for only 7. 0% of our sample and principally occurred during the winter months of November-April (84. 0% compared to the rest of the year). The average time interval between the reuse of the same sleeping site was 50 days. Daily travel distance was significantly shorter (527 m vs. 884 m) when sleeping sites were reused on consecutive nights. Sleeping sites of Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys were used in relation to their proximity to late afternoon and next day early morning feeding sites. Given the large size of the snub-nosed monkey group, we argue that limited reuse of sleeping sites represents a pattern of habitat exploitation characterized by the avoidance of recently visited areas and a foraging strategy of searching for scattered but highly productive feeding sites that are widely distributed across their home range. Furthermore, the monkeys highly selected Himalayan hemlock (Tsuga dumosa) as sleeping trees and rarely fed in trees that were used as sleep nighttime sleeping sites.

Key words： Sleeping trees; Sleeping sites; Ranging patterns; Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys

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REN Baoping , WU Ruidong , LI Dayong , Paul A. Garber , LI Ming . Sleeping tree species selection and patterns of sleeping site use in a wild group of Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti) at Jinsichang, Lijiang, China[J]. ACTA THERIOLOGICA SINICA, 2024 , 44(1) : 37 -49 . DOI: 10.16829/j.slxb.150813

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