The primate anthology : essays on primate behavior, ecology, and conservation from Natural History / Russell L. Ciochon and Richard A. Nisbett, co-editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ciochon, Russell L.

Nisbett, Richard A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Primates--Behavior.

Primates.

Primates--Ecology.

Wildlife conservation.

Physical Description:

xxx, 246 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, ©1998.

Summary:

Contains 33 essays, originally published in Natural History magazine, reporting on field studies of free-ranging primates. Written by respected academics and field biologists, contributions are divided into four sections: social behavior, cognition, and intelligence; community ecology; diet and reproduction; and human-nonhuman primate interaction and conservation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Contents:

Monkey moves / Dawn Starin

Gorilla society / Peter Veit

Mother baboon / Joan Luft and Jeanne Altmann

Family feuds / Carolyn Crockett

What are friends for? / Barbara Smuts

Daughters or sons / Sarah Blaffer-Hrdy

Ms. Monkey / Meredith Small

In the minds of monkeys / Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth

The bonobos' peaceable kingdom / Takayoshi Kano

Dim forest, bright chimps / Christophe Boesch and Hedwige Boesch Acherman

Leading ladies / Jeanne Altmann

To catch a colobus / Craig Stanford

Monkey on a riverbank / Katherine Homewood

The predatory baboons of Kekopey / Robert Harding and Shirley Strum

Acrobatic pygmy chimpanzees / Randall Susman

Leopard killers of Mahale / Richard Byrne and Jennifer Byrne

Teamwork tactics / Lysa Leland and Thomas Struhsaker

The kindness of strangers / Dawn Starin

The vervet's year of doom / Lynne Isbell

Strategies of reproduction / Robert Martin

Poison in the monkey's Garden of Eden / Kenneth Glander

Capuchin counterpoint / Charles Janson

Scarlet faces of the Amazon / José Márcio Ayres

Diet for a small primate / Stephen Ferrari

Monkeys with inflated sex appeal / Sue Boinski

Menu for a monkey / Karen Strier

Night watch on the Amazon / Patricia Wright

The perils of primates / Jaclyn Wolfheim

Radio bush baby / Robert Martin and Simon Bearder

The rhesus monkey's fall from grace / Charles Southwick and Farooq Siddiqi

Lemurs lost and found / Patricia Wright

Macaque see, macaque do / Meredith Small

Calls of the wild / Simon Bearder.

Notes:

"This reader reprises 20 years of articles, originally published in Natural history magazine"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Primate anthology.

ISBN:

0136138454

9780136138457

OCLC:

37322290