| Title |
The primate anthology : essays on primate behavior, ecology, and conservation from Natural history / Russell L. Ciochon and Richard A. Nisbett, co-editors. |
| OCLC |
37322290 |
| ISBN |
0136138454 (pbk.) |
| Publisher |
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [1998] |
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©1998 |
| Description |
xxx, 246 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Primates -- Behavior.
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Primates -- Ecology.
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Wildlife conservation.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 / Jose Macio 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. |
| General note |
"This reader reprises 20 years of articles, originally published in Natural history magazine"--Pref. |
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