Feeding Ecology in Apes and Other Primates

by Edited by Gottfried Hohmann , Martha M. Robbins , Christophe Boesch

• ISBN13: 9780521858373
• ISBN10: 0521858372
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-06
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Feeding Ecology in Apes and Other Primates focuses on evolutionary perspectives of the complex interactions between the environment, food sources, physiology and behaviour in primates. This highly interdisciplinary volume provides a benchmark to assess dietary alterations that affected human evolution by putting the focus on the diet of hominid primates. It also offers a new perspective on the behavioural ecology of the last common ancestor by integrating corresponding information from both human and non-human primates. The potential of innovations of applied biotechnology are also explored to set new standards for future research on feeding ecology, and new information on feeding ecology in humans, apes and other primates is synthesized to help refine or modify current models of socioecology. By taking a comparative view, this book will be interesting to primatologists, anthropologists, behavioural ecologists and evolutionary biologists who want to understand better non-human primates, and the primate that is us.

Author Biography

Gottfried Hohmann is a research associate in the Department of Primatology at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany Martha M. Robbins is a research associate in the Department of Primatology at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Christophe Boesch is Director of the Department of Primatology at the Max-Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Table of Contents

List of contributors	x
Preface	xv
Primate feeding ecology: an integrative approach	1	(14)
Martha M. Robbins
Gottfried Hohmann
Part I Field studies	15	(220)
Introduction	17	(8)
Peter S. Rodman
Variability of the feeding ecology of eastern gorillas	25	(24)
Martha M. Robbins
John Bosco Nkurunungi
Alastair McNeilage
Sympatric western gorilla and mangabey diet: re-examination of ape and monkey foraging strategies	49	(24)
Diane M. Doran-Sheehy
Natasha F. Shah
Lisa A. Heimbauer
Effects of fruit scarcity on foraging strategies of sympatric gorillas and chimpanzees	73	(24)
Juichi Yamagiwa
Augustin Kanyunyi Basabose
Chimpanzee feeding ecology and comparisons with sympatric gorillas in the Goualougo Triangle, Republic of Congo	97	(26)
David Morgan
Crickette Sanz
Frugivory and gregariousness of Salonga bonobos and Gashaka chimpanzees: the influence of abundance and nutritional quality of fruit	123	(38)
Gottfried Hohmann
Andrew Fowler
Volker Sommer
Sylvia Ortmann
Feeding ecology of savanna chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes versus) at Fongoli, Senegal	161	(22)
Jill D. Pruetz
Food choice in Tai chimpanzees: are cultural differences present?	183	(20)
Christophe Boesch
Zoro Berlin Gone Bi
Dean Anderson
Daniel Stahl
The effects of food size, rarity, and processing complexity on white-faced capuchins' visual attention to foraging conspecifics	203	(32)
Susan Perry
Juan Carlos Ordonez Jimenez
Part II Testing theories: New directions in ape feeding ecology	235	(144)
Introduction	237	(6)
Richard W. Wrangham
Primate foraging adaptations: two research strategies	243	(20)
Stuart A. Altmann
The predictive power of socioecological models: a reconsideration of resource characteristics, agonism, and dominance hierarchies	263	(22)
Andreas Koenig
Carola Borries
Hunger and aggression in capuchin monkeys	285	(28)
Charles Janson
Erin Vogel
How does food availability limit the population density of white-bearded gibbons?	313	(24)
Andrew J. Marshall
Mark Leighton
Influence of fruit availability on Sumatran orangutan sociality and reproduction	337	(22)
Serge A. Wich
Martine L. Geurts
Tatang Mitra Setia
Sri Suci Utami-Atmoko
Central place provisioning: the Hadza as an example	359	(20)
Frank W. Marlowe
Part III Analyzing nutritional ecology: Picking up the pace: nutritional ecology as an essential research tool in primatology	379	(131)
Introduction	381	(16)
Katharine Milton
Estimating the quality and composition of wild animal diets -- a critical survey of methods	397	(24)
Sylvia Ortmann
Brenda J. Bradley
Caroline Stolter
Jorg U. Ganzhorn
The possible application of novel marker methods for estimating dietary intake and nutritive value in primates	421	(24)
Robert W. Mayes
Energy intake by wild chimpanzees and orangutans: methodological considerations and a preliminary comparison	445	(28)
Nancy Lou Conklin-Brittain
Cheryl D. Knott
Richard W. Wrangham
The role of sugar in diet selection in redtail and red colobus monkeys	473	(16)
Lisa Danish
Colin A. Chapman
Mary Beth Hall
Karyn D. Rode
Cedric O'Driscoll Worman
Primate sensory systems and foraging behavior	489	(21)
Nathaniel J. Dominy
Peter W. Lucas
Nur Supardi Noor
Index	510