神农架川金丝猴捕食矛纹草鹛雏鸟简报

目前,捕食脊椎动物的现象在非人灵长类动物中多有报道,如卷尾猴(Cebus capucinus,Rose,1996)、东非狒狒(Papio anubis,Harding,1973;Strum,1975)、猕猴(Macaca arctoides,Estrada and Estrada,1977;Macaca sylvanus,Young et al.,2012)、西黑冠长臂猿(Nomascus concolor jingdongensis,Fan and Jiang,2009)、苏门答腊猩猩(Pongo abelii, Hardus et al.,2012)和黑握握^抓加尽-lodytes, Gilby et al., 2006;Newton-Fisher, 2014)等。

Chinese Babax (Babax lanceolatus) was predated by a wild Rhinopithecus roxellana in Shennongjia National Park,China

Many reports have described that non-human primates capture and consume vertebrate prey. However, the colobinae monkeys with more strict phytophagous diet rarely prey on vertebrates. We recorded an adult female Rhinopithecus roxellana preyed on three Chinese Babax’s (Babax lanceolatus) chicks from a nest in Shennongjia National Park on Sept. 7, 2018. The monkey killed all the three chicks by biting off their heads while feeding on them. In this case, multiple individuals, most were female juveniles, were involved in watching the process of predation and actively explored the inside of the nest. The significance of this case is not only to further understand the feeding habits of R. roxellana, but also to accumulate basic data for exploring the behavioral mechanism of primate’s carnivority.