Brief Report

A Juvenile Sichuan Golden Monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) Predated by a Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) in the Qinling Mountains
Shuyi Zhang^a, Baoping Ren^b, Baoguo Li<sup>b

a</sup>Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, and
^bBiology Department, Northwest University, Xian, China

Address of Corresponding Author

Folia Primatol 1999;70:175-176 (DOI: 10.1159/000021693)

  Key Words

• Sichuan golden monkey
• Rhinopithecus roxellana
• Goshawk
• Accipiter gentilis
• Predation
• Qinling Mountains

  Abstract

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It has been suggested that hawks, panthers, jackals, lynxes and wolves may prey on Sichuan golden monkeys in the wild [1, 2], but all these assumptions were based on observations of dead monkeys eaten by predators, and no direct attack of a living individual has been witnessed. During our field study on the behavioural ecology of Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys in Zhouzhi Nature Reserve (107°45' E, 33°44' N) in the Qinling Mountains, predation of a juvenile monkey by a goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) was directly observed by us, and we describe this event here.

  Author Contacts

Shuyi Zhang
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
19 Zhongguancun Road, Haidian
100080 Beijing (Peoples's Republic of China)
Fax +86 10 625 65 689

  Article Information

Received: Received: September 9, 1998
Accepted after revision: October 1, 1998
Number of Print Pages : 2
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