On the move : how and why animals travel in groups / edited by Sue Boinski and Paul A. Garber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boinski, Sue.

Garber, Paul Alan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social behavior in animals.

Primates--Behavior.

Primates.

Physical Description:

xi, 811 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Summary:

Examines social, cognitive, and ecological processes that underlie patterns and strategies of group travel. Chapters discuss how factors such as group size, resource distribution, and costs of travel affect individual and group exploitation of the environment. Most chapters focus on field studies of human and nonhuman primate groups, from squirrel monkeys to Turkana pastoralists. Chapters on other species provide a broad taxonomic perspective.

Contents:

Introduction: Unraveling the Complexities of Group Travel 1

Part 1 Ecological Costs and Benefits 7

1 The Physiology and Energetics of Movement: Effects on Individuals and Groups / Karen Steudel 9

2 Determinants of Group Size in Primates: The Importance of Travel Costs / Colin A. Chapman, Lauren J. Chapman 24

3 A Critical Evaluation of the Influence of Predators on Primates: Effects on Group Travel / Sue Boinski, Adrian Treves, Colin A. Chapman 43

4 Mixed-Species Association and Group Movement / Marina Cords 73

5 Territorial Defense and the Ecology of Group Movements in Small-Bodied Neotropical Primates / Carlos A. Peres 100

Part 2 Cognitive Abilities, Possibilities, and Constraints 125

6 Group Movement and Individual Cognition: Lessons from Social Insects / Fred C. Dyer 127

7 Spatial Movement Strategies: Theory, Evidence, and Challenges / Charles Janson 165

8 Primate Brain Evolution: Cognitive Demands of Foraging or of Social Life? / Robert A. Barton 204

9 Animal Movement as a Group-Level Adaptation / David Sloan Wilson 238

Part 3 Travel Decisions 259

10 Evidence for the Use of Spatial, Temporal, and Social Information by Primate Foragers / Paul A. Garber 261

11 Homing and Detour Behavior in Golden Lion Tamarin Social Groups / Charles R. Menzel, Benjamin B. Beck 299

12 Comparative Movement Patterns of Two Semiterrestrial Cercopithecine Primates: The Tana River Crested Mangabey and the Sulawesi Crested Black Macaque / Margaret F. Kinnaird, Timothy G. O'Brien 327

13 Mountain Gorilla Habitat Use Strategies and Group Movements / David P. Watts 351

14 Quo Vadis? Tactics of Food Search and Group Movement in Primates and Other Animals / Katharine Milton 375

Part 4 Social Processes 419

15 Social Manipulation Within and Between Troops Mediates Primate Group Movement / Sue Boinski 421

16 Grouping and Movement Patterns in Malagasy Primates / Peter M. Kappeler 470

17 How Monkeys Find Their Way: Leadership, Coordination, and Cognitive Maps of African Baboons / Richard W. Byrne 491

Part 5 Group Movement from a Wider Taxonomic Perspective 519

18 Birds of Many Feathers: The Formation and Structure of Mixed-Species Flocks of Forest Birds / Russell Greenberg 521

19 Keeping in Touch at Sea: Group Movement in Dolphins and Whales / Rachel Smolker 559

20 Group Travel in Social Carnivores / Kay E. Holekamp, Erin E. Boydston, Laura Smale 587

21 Ecological Correlates of Home Range Variation in Primates: Implications for Hominid Evolution / William R. Leonard, Marcia L. Robertson 628

22 Patterns and Processes of Group Movement in Human Nomadic Populations: A Case Study of the Turkana of Northwestern Kenya / J. Terrence McCabe 649

New Directions for Group Movement / Sue Boinski, Paul A. Garber 678

Appendix Classification of Living Primates 685.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 691-787) and indexes.

ISBN:

0226063399

0226063402

OCLC:

40744353