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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Primates--Behavior.

Primates.

Primates--Food.

Predation (Biology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 297 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Predator sensitive foraging represents the strategies that animals employ to balance the need to eat against the need to avoid being eaten. Ecologists working with a wide range of taxa have developed sophisticated theoretical models of these strategies, and have produced elegant data to test them. However, only recently have primatologists begun to turn their attention to this area of research. This volume brings together primary data from a variety of primate species living in both natural habitats and experimental settings, and explores the variables that may play a role in primates' behavioural strategies. Taken together, these studies demonstrate that predator sensitive foraging is relevant to many primates, of various body sizes and group sizes and living in different environments. Eat or be Eaten encourages further discussion and investigation of the subject. It will make fascinating reading for researchers and students in primatology, ecology and animal behaviour.

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13106-5

1-280-95587-2

9786610955879

0-511-20636-4

0-511-35138-0

0-511-07795-5

0-511-56137-7

0-511-61023-8

0-511-07638-X

OCLC:

456196421