Primate Lives
Autor Joan B. Silken Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 iun 2027
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Specificații
Cuprins
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter 1 A (Brief) Introduction to the Primate Order
- What Makes an Animal a Primate?
- BOX 1.1 How Monkeys See the World
- Geographic Distribution of Primates
- Conservation Status
- How to Organize the Seating Chart
- The Primate Family Tree
- Meeting Your Relatives
- Final Thoughts
- Chapter 2 How We Study Wild Primates
- Habituation
- Individual Identification
- Construction of an Ethogram
- Data Collection
- Demographic Data
- Ranging Patterns
- Diet
- Ecological Information
- Behavioral Data
- Biological Samples
- Field Experiments
- Technology
- Final Thoughts
- Chapter 3 Orangutans: The Costs and Benefits of Living in Groups
- The Evolution of Sociality: Balancing Benefits and Costs
- Disadvantages of Living in Groups
- Competition
- Contagion
- BOX 3.1 How Natural Selection Produces Adaptation
- Predator Attraction
- Advantages of Living in Groups
- Access to Information
- Protection from Predation
- Access to Food Resources
- Access to Social Services
- Behavioral Ecology of Orangutans
- Taxonomy and Geographic Range
- Conservation Status
- Appearance
- Locomotion
- Predation
- Activity Patterns
- Diet
- Ranging Patterns
- Life History
- Social Organization
- Challenges of Frugivory
- Why Don’t Orangutan Females Live in Groups?
- Final Thoughts
- Chapter 4 Owl Monkeys: Pair-Bonding and Male Parental Care
- The Evolution of Reproductive Strategies
- Owl Monkey Behavioral Ecology
- Taxonomy and Geographic Range
- Conservation Status
- Appearance
- Locomotion
- Predation
- Activity Patterns
- Diet
- Ranging Patterns
- Life History
- Social Organization
- Family Life
- Final Thoughts
- Chapter 5 Marmosets: Cooperative Breeding and the Evolution of Alloparental Care
- The Evolution of Singular Cooperative Breeding
- The Evolution of Cooperation
- BOX 5.1 Calculating Relatedness
- Cooperation and Competition in Singular Cooperatively Breeding Groups
- Common Marmoset Behavioral Ecology
- Taxonomy and Geographic Range
- Conservation Status
- Appearance
- Locomotion
- Activity Patterns
- Predation
- Diet
- Ranging Patterns
- Life History
- Social Organization and Mating System
- Family Dynamics
- Reproductive Inhibition, Suppression, and Resistance
- Final Thoughts
- Chapter 6 Geladas: Sexual Selection and Reproductive Conflict between the Sexes
- Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Male Reproductive Strategies
- Male Infanticide
- Sexual Conflict and Female Counterstrategies
- Gelada Behavioral Ecology
- Taxonomy and Geographic Range
- Conservation Status
- Appearance
- Locomotion
- Activity Patterns
- Predation
- Diet
- Ranging Patterns
- Life History
- Social Organization
- Male Reproductive Strategies
- Female Counterstrategies
- Final Thoughts
- Chapter 7 Baboons: The Adaptive Value of Female Bonds
- Competition and the Evolution of Dominance Hierarchies
- Adaptive Consequences of Dominance Rank
- Cooperation and Kin Recognition
- Baboon Behavioral Ecology
- Taxonomy and Geographic Range
- Conservation Status
- Appearance
- Locomotion
- Predation
- Activity Patterns
- Diet
- Ranging Patterns
- Life History
- Social Organization
- The Lives of COKY Females
- The Adaptive Consequences of Female Dominance Rank
- The Form of Social Bonds
- The Adaptive Value of Social Bonds
- BOX 7.1 The Lives of Male COKY Baboons
- Final Thoughts
- Chapter 8 Chimpanzees: Cooperation among Males
- Mutualism
- Contingent Reciprocity
- Group Augmentation
- Chimpanzee Behavioral Ecology
- Taxonomy and Geographic Range
- Conservation Status
- Appearance
- Locomotion
- Predation
- Activity Patterns
- Diet
- Ranging Patterns
- Life History
- Social Organization
- Male-Male Cooperation and Competition
- Bond Formation
- Cooperation and Intragroup Competition
- Cooperation in Intergroup Competition
- Bonobos Have Found Another Way
- Final Thoughts
- Chapter 9 Capuchins: Innovation, Social Learning, and the Origins of Culture
- Body Size Matters
- Ecological Brain Hypothesis
- Social Brain Hypothesis
- Cognitive Buffer Hypothesis
- Behavioral Ecology of White-Faced Capuchins
- Taxonomy and Geographic Range
- Conservation Status
- Appearance
- Locomotion
- Predation
- Activity Patterns
- Diet
- Ranging Patterns
- Life History
- Social Organization
- Innovation and Social Learning
- BOX 9.1 Games Capuchins Play
- Culture
- Final Thoughts
- Chapter 10 Gorillas: Staving off Extinction
- Behavioral Ecology of Gorillas
- Taxonomy and Geographic Range
- Conservation Status
- Appearance
- Locomotion
- Predation
- Activity Patterns
- Diet
- Ranging Patterns
- Life History
- Social Organization
- Back from the Brink of Extinction
- Final Thoughts
- Appendix
- Glossary
- Index
- Behavioral Ecology of Gorillas
- Body Size Matters
- Competition and the Evolution of Dominance Hierarchies
- Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Male Reproductive Strategies
- The Evolution of Singular Cooperative Breeding
- What Makes an Animal a Primate?