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Primate Ecology and Social Structure, Volume 2: New World Monkeys 1/e

Robert W. Sussman

Published January 2000 by Pearson Custom Publishing
Copyright 2000, 115 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0-536-60265-4
List Price:
$70.20

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Features

  • Organized by taxonomic groups.
    • Helps students review.
  • Review of ecology and behavior of free-ranging new world monkeys.
    • Introduces students to animals in their least disturbed state.
  • Most in-depth and up-to-date coverage available.
    • Gives students thorough, comprehensive review.
  • Sections on habitat, locomotion, activity cycles, feeding, predation, social behavior and organization, communication and infant development.
    • Gives students complete description.
  • Extensive bibliography.
    • Helps students with research.
  • Focus on field studies.
    • Gives practical advice.
  • Can be used as text or reference.
    • For beginning and advanced students.


Table of Contents

1. Evolution of the Neotropical Primates.
2. Callitrichidae.
Habitat Selection. Positional Behavior. Diet (Insect Prey; Fruits, Flowers, and Nectar; Exudates). Daily Activity Patterns. Predation. Social Structure and Organization. Reproduction. Home Range and Ranging Patterns. Summary of the Ecology of Callitrichidae.

3. Cebidae.
The Ecology of the Cebidae. The Comparative Ecology of the Cebidae. Habitat Selection. Locomotion and Use of Forest Strata. Diet. Cycles of Activity. Predation. Social Structure and Organization. Cebus and Saimiri Mixed-Species Associations. Ranging Behavior. The Ecology and Behavior of Aotinae. Callicebus. Habitat and Locomotion. Diet. Cycles of Activity. Predation. Social Structure and Organization. Ranging Behavior. Aotus. Habitat and Locomotion. Diet. Activity Cycle. Predation. Social Structure and Organization. Ranging Behavior. Theoretical Insert—Hunting and Tool Use by Capuchins and Models of Early Hominid Evolution.

4. Atelidae.
Atelidae. Ecology and Behavior of Ateles, Alouatta, and Lagothrix. Habitat and Locomotion. Diet. Cycles of Activity. Predation. Social Structure and Organization (Ateles and Lagothrix; Howler Monkeys). Ranging Behavior. Ecology and Behavior of Brachyteles. Habitat and Locomotion. Diet. Cycles of Activity. Predation. Social Structure and Organization. Ranging Behavior. Pithiciinae. Ecology and Behavior of Chiropotes and Pithecia. Habitat and Locomotion. Diet. Cycles of Activity. Predation. Social Structure and Organization. Ranging Behavior. Ecology and Behavior of Cacajao. Habitat and Locomotion. Diet. Social Structure and Organization. Theoretical Insert—Dispersal and Cooperation Between Non-Kin.

5. Summary Chapter: Patterns of Variability, Diversity, and Conservation Among New World Monkeys.
Activity Cycles. Habitat and Locomotion. Diet. Predation. Social Organization. Conservation.

Index.



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