A Demographic Model of Colonization by a Population of St. Kitts Vervets

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Abstract
Two sets of censuses by enumeration (1971, 1981) of an isolated population of vervet monkeys on the island of St. Kitts were used to construct a model of the population history of the group. From a colonizing population, the best-fit model predicts a period of rapid expansion with high birth rates, then continued growth with slowly declining natality to the present population level. Several possible ‘futures’ for the population are projected.