How Primates Eat : A Synthesis of Nutritional Ecology Across a Mammal Order.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lambert, Joanna E.

Contributor:

Bryer, Margaret A. H.

Rothman, Jessica M.

Clutton-Brock, T. H.

Richard, Alison F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Primates--Feeding and feeds.

Primates.

Primates--Nutrition.

Primates--Physiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (761 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Summary:

Exploring everything from nutrients to food acquisition and research methods, a comprehensive synthesis of the study of diet and feeding in nonhuman primates. What do we mean when we say that a diet is nutritious? Why can some animals get all the energy they need from eating leaves while others would perish on such a diet? Why don’t mountain gorillas eat fruit all day as chimpanzees do? Answers to these questions about food and feeding are among the many tasty morsels that emerge from this authoritative book. Informed by the latest scientific tools and millions of hours of field and laboratory work on species across the primate order and around the globe, this volume is an exhaustive synthesis of our understanding of what, why, and how primates eat. State-of-the-art information presented at physiological, behavioral, ecological, and evolutionary scales will serve as a road map for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners as they work toward a holistic understanding of life as a primate and the urgent conservation consequences of diet and food availability in a changing world.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword | T. H. Clutton-Brock

Preface | Joanna E. Lambert, Margaret A. H. Bryer, and Jessica M. Rothman

Introduction: From Diets to Disturbance: The Evolution of Primate Feeding Studies | David J. Chivers and Kim R. McConkey

Part I. Finding, Building, and Using a Diet

1. The Role of Macro- and Micronutrients in Primate Food Choice | Annika Felton and Joanna E. Lambert

2. What Extant Primates Eat: A Global Survey | Joseph E. Hawes, Carlos A. Peres, and Andrew C. Smith

3. The First Diet: Mother's Milk | Katie Hinde, Lauren A. Milligan, and Gregory E. Blomquist

4. Diet and the Energetics of Reproduction | Melissa Emery Thompson

5. Primate Energy Requirements: Brains, Babies, or Behavior? | Alex R. DeCasien, Mary H. Brown, Stephen R. Ross, and Herman Pontzer

6. Primate Senses: Finding and Evaluating Food | Amanda D. Melin and Carrie C. Veilleux

7. Seasonality in Food Availability and Energy Intake | Cheryl D. Knott and Andrea L. DiGiorgio

Part II. Nutrients, Nutrition, and Food Processing

8. Enzymes and Microbes of the Mammalian Gut: Toward an Integrated Understanding of Digestion | Joanna E. Lambert, Richard Mutegeki, and Katherine R. Amato

9. Secondary Compounds in Primate Foods: Time for New Approaches | Eleanor M. Stalenberg, Jörg U. Ganzhorn, and William J. Foley

10. Hormonally Active Phytochemicals in Primate Diets: Prevalence across the Order | Michael D. Wasserman, Marie-Lyne Després-Einspenner, Richard Mutegeki, and Tessa Steiniche

11. Nutrition and Immune Function in Primates | Erin R. Vogel, Astri Zulfa, Sri Suci Utami Atmoko, and Lyle L. Moldawer

12. Nutrition and Primate Life History | Carola Borries and Andreas Koenig

Part III. Food Acquisition and Nutrition in Social Environments

13. Social Food Competition, Then and Now | Charles H. Janson.

14. Applying a Framework of Social Nutrition to Primate Behavioral Ecology | Margaret A. H. Bryer and Moreen Uwimbabazi

15. Primate Cognitive Ecology: Challenges and Solutions to Locating and Acquiring Resources in Social Foragers | Paul A. Garber

16. Feeding-Related Tool Use in Primates: A Systematic Overview | Jill D. Pruetz, Landing Badji, Stephanie L. Bogart, Stacy M. Lindshield, Papa Ibnou Ndiaye, and Kristina R. Walkup

17. Hunting by Primates | David Watts

18. Movement Ecology and Feeding Neighborhoods | Margaret C. Crofoot and Shauhin E. Alavi

19. Foraging in a Landscape of Fear | Russell Hill

20. Behavioral Flexibility and Diet | AJ Hardie and Karen B. Strier

Part IV. Methods, Practice, and Application

21. Measuring Food in the Field | Eckhard W. Heymann

22. Wild Plant Food Chemistry | Nancy Lou Conklin-Brittain

23. Evaluating Primate Diets with Stable Isotopes | Matt Sponheimer and Brooke Crowley

24. Mechanical Properties of Primate Foods | Adam van Casteren and Peter Lucas

25. Modeling Primate Nutrition | David Raubenheimer

26. Reconstructing Fossil Primate Diets: Dental-Dietary Adaptations and Foodprints for Thought | Peter S. Ungar

27. Food and Primate Carrying Capacity | Andrew J. Marshall

28. Climate Change and Primate Nutritional Ecology | Jessica M. Rothman, John B. Makombo, and Mitchell T. Irwin

29. Primate Foraging Strategies Modulate Responses to Anthropogenic Change and Thus Primate Conservation | Colin A. Chapman, Kim Valenta, Fabiola Espinosa-Gómez, Amélie Corriveau, and Sarah Bortolamiol

Afterword | Alison Richard

Acknowledgments

Literature Cited

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780226829746

022682974X

OCLC:

1438669788