Eat or be eaten : predator sensitive foraging among primates / edited by Lynne E. Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Lynne E. (Lynne Elizabeth), 1963-

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Primates--Behavior.

Primates.

Primates--Food.

Predation (Biology).

Primates--psychology.

Appetitive Behavior.

Medical Subjects:

Primates--psychology.

Appetitive Behavior.

Physical Description:

xi, 297 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Summary:

Edited work on behavioural strategies of primates in foraging for food, and avoiding being eaten.

Contents:

An introduction to predator sensitive foraging / Lynne E. Miller

Dangers in the dark: are some nocturnal primates afraid of the dark? / Simon K. Bearder, K.A.I. Nekaris, Courtney A. Buzzell

Predation sensitive foraging in captive tamarins / Mark J. Prescott and Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith

Seeing red: consequence of individual differences in color vision in callitrichid primates / Nancy G. Caine

Predator sensitive foraging in Thomas Langurs / Elisabeth H.M. Sterck

The role of group size in predator sensitive foraging decisions for wedge-capped capuchin monkeys (Cebus olivaceus) / Lynne E. Miller

Group size effects on predation sensitive foraging in wild ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) / Michelle L. Sauther

Species differences in feeding in Milne Edward's sifakas (Propithecus diadema edwardsi), rufus lemurs (Eulemur fulvus rufus), and red-bellied lemurs (Eulemur rubiventer) in southern Madagascar: implications for predator avoidance / Deborah J. Overdorff, Suzanne G. Strait, and Ryan G. Seltzer

Evidence of predator sensitive foraging and traveling in single- and mixed-species tamarin troops / Paul A. Garber and Júlio César Bicca-Marques

Predator (in)sensitive foraging in sympatric female vervets (Cercopithecus aethiops) and patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas): a test of ecological models of group dispersion / Lynne A. Isbell and Karen L. Enstam

Predation risk and antipredator adaptations in white-faced sakis, pithecia pithecia / Terrence M. Gleason and Marilyn A. Norconk

Foraging female baboons exhibit similar patterns of antipredator vigilance across two populations / Russell A. Hill and Guy Cowlishaw

Foraging and safety in adult female blue monkeys in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya / Marina Cords

Predicting predation risk for foraging, arboreal monkeys / Adrian Treves

Predator sensitive foraging in ateline primates / Anthony Di Fiore

Antipredatory behavior in gibbons (Hylobates lar, Khao Yai/Tailand) / Nicola L. Uhde and Volker Sommer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0521804515

9780521804516

0521011043

9780521011044

OCLC:

47443842

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