Primate Behavioral Ecology
ISBN: 9780205790173 | 0205790178
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 8/27/2010
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Primate Behavioral Ecology, described as "an engaging, cutting-edge exposition," incorporates exciting new discoveries And The most up-to-date approaches in its introduction To The field and its applications of behavioral ecology to primate conservation.One reviewer declares, "I can't imagine teaching a course on primate behavior or ecology without this text."This unique, comprehensive, single-authoredtext integrates the basics of evolutionary, ecological, and demographic perspectives with contemporary noninvasive molecular and hormonal techniq... MORE
Preface.
1. Introduction to Primate Studies.
Primates as Study Subjects.
Descriptive Studies.
Box 1.1: Clues from Captivity.
Evolutionary Models and Problem-Oriented Studies.
Conservation Applications.
2. Traits, Trends, and Taxonomy.
Box 2.1: The Notable Neocortex.
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Cladistic Analyses.
Box 2.2: Fundamentals of Food Processing
Phylogenetic Analyses of Behavior.
3. Primates Past to Present.
Evolutionary History.
Primate Diversity in the Past.
Box 3.1: Mosaic Nature of Human Evolution
Interpreting Diversity Today.
Box 3.2: Hybrid Baboons.
Box 3.3: Lucky Lemurs.
4. Evolution and Social Behavior.
Natural Selection.
Box 4.1: MHC Genes
Box 4.2 Menopause
Kin Selection and Reciprocal Altruism.
Box 4.3: Multi-Level Selection
Individual Strategies and Social Organizations.
5. Evolution and Sex.
Sexual Selection.
Sexual Dimorphism.
Mating Patterns.
Box 5.1: Gibbon Games and Tarsier Tactics
Female Mating Strategies.
Male Rank and Reproductive Success.
6. Food, Foraging, and Females.
Food Quality.
Box 6.1: Forest Pharmacy
The Spatial Distribution of Food.
The Temporal Availability of Food Resources.
Box 6.2: The Power of Food
Interpreting Diets and Their Behavioral Correlates.
7. Female Strategies.
Ecology of Female Relationships.
Social Dynamics in Female Groups.
Box 7.1: Mysterious Matrilineage and Market Theory.
Population Consequences of Female Strategies.
8. Male Strategies.
Ecology of Male Relationships.
Box 8.1: Using and Misusing Infants.
Social Dynamics Among Males.
Box 8.2: Beyond the Group
Population Dynamics.
9. Developmental Stages Through the Lifespan
Fertilization to Birth.
Infancy.
Box 9.1: Parental Prolactin.
Weaning Conflict.
Juvenile Challenges.
Puberty
Adulthood and Aging
Population Consequences of Life Histories
10. Communication and Cognition.
Components of Communication Systems.
Modes of Primate Communication.
Cognition.
Implications for the Ethical Treatment of Primates.
Box 10.1: Rehabilitation, Reintroduction, and Sanctuary.
11. Community Ecology.
Primate Communities.
Box 11.1: Primates and Parasites.
Predator-Prey Interactions.
Box 11.2: Predatory Perspectives.
Primate-Plant Interactions.
Conservation of Communities.
12. Conservation.
Threats to Primates.
Conservation Policies.
Box 12.1: The Primates’ People
Noninvasive Research.
The Next Millennium.
Appendix: Primate Names.
Bibliography.
Glossary.
Index.
Karen B. Strier (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1986) has been Hilldale Professor of Anthropology and Affiliate Professor of Zoology At University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1989. Her main research interests are to understand the behavioral ecology of primates from a comparative perspective, and to contribute to conservation efforts on their behalf. She has been studying the Northern Muriqui in Brazil's Atlantic forest since 1982. She is also the author of Faces in the Forest: the Endangered Muriqui Monkeys of Brazil.
