Author: C. R. Carpenter
Publisher: Associated Univ Pr
Keywords: primates, behavior, regulators, behavioral
Number of Pages: 303
Published: 1974-07
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0838710999
ISBN-13: 9780838710999
Authors:Lesley J. Rogers, Gisela Kaplan,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: primates, primatology, progress, prospects, developments, superior, vertebrate, cognition, comparative, non
Number of Pages: 386
Published: 2003-12-31
List price: $225.00
ISBN-10: 0306477270
ISBN-13: 9780306477270
This book explores afresh the long-standing interest, and emphasis on, the `special’ capacities of primates. Some of the recent discoveries of the higher cognitive abilities of other mammals and also birds challenge the concept that primates are special and even the view that the cognitive ability of apes is more advanced than that of nonprimate mammals and birds. It is therefore timely to ask whether primates are, in fact, special and to do so from a broad range of perspectives. Divided into five sections this book deals with topics about higher cognition and how it is manifested in dif
Authors:Diane K. Brockman, Carel P. van Schaik,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: studies, human, primates, biological, evolutionary, anthropology, cambridge, non, living, extinct, seasonality
Number of Pages: 604
Published: 2005-12-12
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 0521820693
ISBN-13: 9780521820691
The emergence of the genus Homo is widely linked to the colonization of "new" highly seasonal savannah habitats. However, until now, our understanding of the possible impact of seasonality on this shift has been limited because we have little general knowledge of how seasonality affects the lives of primates. This book documents the extent of seasonality in food abundance in tropical woody vegetation. It then presents a systematic analysis of seasonality’s impact in food supply on the behavioral ecology of non-human primates and ultimately applies its conclusions to primate and human evo
Author: Philip Hershkovitz
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: introduction, primates, platyrrhini, volume, monkeys, new, world, living
Number of Pages: 1132
Published: 1977-12-01
List price: $188.00
ISBN-10: 0226327884
ISBN-13: 9780226327884
In this long-awaited work, Philip Hershkovitz provides the most thorough and comprehensive treatise ever published on New World monkeys. The volume gives a detailed account of the origin, evolution, dispersal, and behavior of platyrrhines and a systematic arrangement of all known forms, living and extinct. During an eleven-year period, Hershkovitz examined more than 3,100 museum-preserved specimens and relevant primate fossils and observed hundreds of animals in captivity and thousands in the wild state. He presents his results in an elegant and encyclopedic text, lavishly illustrated with 520
Author: Dr. Harriet J. Smith
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: primates, parenting
Number of Pages: 394
Published: 2006-02-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0674019385
ISBN-13: 9780674019386
What parent hasn’t wondered "What do I do now?" as a baby cries or a teenager glares? Making babies may come naturally, but knowing how to raise them doesn’t. As primatologist-turned-psychologist Harriet J. Smith shows in this lively safari through the world of primates, parenting by primates isn’t instinctive, and that’s just as true for monkeys and apes as it is for humans. In this natural history of primate parenting, Smith compares parenting by nonhuman and human primates. In a narrative rich with vivid anecdotes derived from interviews with primatologists, fro
Author: Frans B. M. de Waal
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: primates, among, peacemaking
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 1990-09-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 067465921X
ISBN-13: 9780674659216
Does biology condemn the human species to violence and war? Previous studies of animal behavior incline us to answer yes, but the message of this book is considerably more optimistic. Without denying our heritage of aggressive behavior, Frans de Waal describes powerful checks and balances in the makeup of our closest animal relatives, and in so doing he shows that to humans making peace is as natural as making war. In this meticulously researched and absorbing account, we learn in detail how different types of simians cope with aggression, and how they make peace after fights. Chimpanzees
Author: Daris Ray Swindler
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: primates, introduction
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 1998-06
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0295977043
ISBN-13: 9780295977041
A comprehensive guide to the evolutionary history of the world’s prosimians, monkeys, and apes--and of humankind’s interactions with them. This account of 65 million years of adaptation and evolution concludes with a chapter on the threat that HOMO SAPIENS now pose to the survival of the world’s nonhuman primates. 42 photos. 72 drawings.
