Capture of Alouatta guariba clamitans for the surveillance of sylvatic yellow fever and zoonotic malaria: Which is the best strategy in the tropical Atlantic Forest?

dc.creatorAbreu, Filipe Vieira Santos de
dc.creatorSantos, Edmilson dos
dc.creatorGomes, Marcelo Quintela
dc.creatorVargas, Waldemir Paixão
dc.creatorPassos, Pedro Henrique de Oliveira
dc.creatorSilva, Charles Nunes E.
dc.creatorAraújo, Pollyanna Cardoso
dc.creatorPires, Jeferson Rocha
dc.creatorRomano, Alessandro Pecego Martins
dc.creatorTeixeira, Danilo Simonini
dc.creatorOliveira, Ricardo Lourenço de
dc.date2019-06-28T13:23:59Z
dc.date2019-06-28T13:23:59Z
dc.date2019
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-26T23:59:30Z
dc.date.available2023-09-26T23:59:30Z
dc.identifierABREU, Filipe Vieira Santos et al. Capture of Alouatta guariba clamitans for the surveillance of sylvatic yellow fever and zoonotic malaria: Which is the best strategy in the tropical Atlantic Forest?. Am. J. Primatol., p. 1-9, 2019.
dc.identifier0275-2565
dc.identifierhttps://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/33706
dc.identifier10.1002/ajp.23000
dc.identifier1098-2345
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/8896307
dc.descriptionHowler monkey capture is an arduous and expensive task requiring trained and specialized professionals. We compared strategies and methods to most efficiently capture Alouatta guariba clamitans in remnants of the Atlantic Forest in Rio de Janeiro and its bordering states of Minas Gerais and São Paulo. We tested whether or not the success of expeditions in the forest with anesthetic darts, nets, and baited traps differed with and without the support of an information network, a contact chain built with key institutions and inhabitants to continuously monitor howler monkey presence. The influence of forest conditions (vegetation type and fragment size) upon darting success was also evaluated. We captured 24 free-living A. guariba clamitans. No howler monkey was caught with traps, probably due to the predominantly folivore feeding to high local plant diversity providing a great variety of food options. Captures based on an information network were significantly more efficient in terms of numbers of caught monkeys than without it. Captures with darts were considerably more efficient when performed in semideciduous forests and small forest fragments as opposed to ombrophilous forests or large woods. Although we walked great distances within the forest searching for howler monkeys, all but one animal were captured at the forest fringes. Hindrances to search and the darting method in the Atlantic Forest, for example, the steep terrain, high tree canopies, hunt pressure, and low A. guariba clamitans population density, were mitigated with the use of the information network in this monkey capture. Moreover, the information network enhanced the surveillance of zoonotic diseases, which howler monkeys and other nonhuman primates are reservoirs in Brazil, such as malaria and yellow fever.
dc.description2022-01-01
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherWiley
dc.rightsrestricted access
dc.subjectDardo anestésico
dc.subjectRede de informação
dc.subjectArmadilha
dc.subjectAnesthetic dart
dc.subjectHowler monkey
dc.subjectInformation network
dc.subjectTrapping
dc.subjectAlouatta
dc.titleCapture of Alouatta guariba clamitans for the surveillance of sylvatic yellow fever and zoonotic malaria: Which is the best strategy in the tropical Atlantic Forest?
dc.typeArticle


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