Submitted by PPG Zoologia (zoologia-pg@pucrs.br) on 2018-07-26T17:32:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertac?a?o de Mestrado_Thiago Cavalcante_2018.pdf: 1062183 bytes, checksum: df6896e683973408161b744df41a770f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Sheila Dias (sheila.dias@pucrs.br) on 2018-08-01T12:02:05Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertac?a?o de Mestrado_Thiago Cavalcante_2018.pdf: 1062183 bytes, checksum: df6896e683973408161b744df41a770f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-01T12:21:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertac?a?o de Mestrado_Thiago Cavalcante_2018.pdf: 1062183 bytes, checksum: df6896e683973408161b744df41a770f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-16 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / Group living animals, like most primates, benefit from a reduction in predation risk and an improvement in their potential to compete for food with other groups. However, gregariousness also increases intragroup food competition that can modulate within-group agonism and interindividual spatial patterns. We evaluated the influence of fruit availability and consumption (degree of frugivory) on the agonistic behavior and interindividual distance in two populations of Gray woolly monkeys living in forest fragments in southwestern Brazilian Amazonia. We recorded 165 intragroup agonistic interactions in a feeding context via the ?all occurrences? method and 3,549 records of spacing via scan sampling. Fruit consumption presented a direct relationship with agonistic and spacing behavior, whereas our estimate of fruit availability was a good predictor only for spacing. Woolly monkey selection of food patches composed of trees with diameter at breast height almost fourfold than that of the trees found in the phenology plots might explain the lack of relationship between fruit availability and agonism. The proportion of time (50%) that woolly monkeys had no nearby (<5 m) neighbors is compatible with a strategy of reducing intragroup fruit competition by managing interindividual distances. In sum, we presented the first evidence of aggressive intragroup feeding competition in Lagothrix cana and demonstrate the influence of fruit availability and consumption on some aspects of the social system of woolly monkeys. / Animais que vivem em grupo, como a maioria dos primatas, s?o beneficiados por uma redu??o no risco de preda??o e um aumento na possibilidade de defesa cooperativa dos recursos. Por?m, a vida em sociedade aumenta a competi??o intragrupo por alimento, a qual pode modular as intera??es agon?sticas e o espa?amento interindividual. Avaliamos a influ?ncia da disponibilidade de frutos e seu consumo (grau de frugivoria) no comportamento agon?stico e espa?amento interindividual de duas popula??es de macacos-barrigudos em fragmentos florestais na Amaz?nia brasileira. Registramos 165 intera??es agon?sticas intragrupo no contexto de alimenta??o via m?todo de ?todas as ocorr?ncias? e 3549 registros de espa?amento via m?todo de ?varredura instant?nea?. O consumo de frutos apresentou uma rela??o direta com o comportamento agon?stico e o espa?amento interindividual, enquanto a disponibilidade de frutos foi um bom preditor apenas do espa?amento. A explora??o pelos barrigudos de locais de alimenta??o com ?rvores com di?metro ? altura do peito quase quatro vezes maior do que as ?rvores monitoradas para a an?lise da disponibilidade de frutos pode explicar a aus?ncia de rela??o com o agonismo. A propor??o do tempo (50%) na qual os barrigudos estiveram sem vizinhos pr?ximos (<5 m) ? compat?vel com uma estrat?gia de redu??o da competi??o intragrupo por frutos via manuten??o do distanciamento interindividual. Em suma, apresentamos as primeiras evid?ncias de competi??o agressiva intragrupo para Lagothrix cana e demonstramos a import?ncia da disponibilidade e consumo de frutos em moldar alguns aspectos do sistema social dos barrigudos.