The Primate Anthology Essays on Primate Behavior, Ecology and Conservation from Natural History

by Ciochon, Russell L.; Nisbett, Richard A.

• ISBN13: 9780136138457
• ISBN10: 0136138454
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-02
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Offers a multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspective.this anthology offers a collection of 33 readings on primate behavior, ecology, and conservation originally published inNatural History Magazine.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii	(2)
Karen Strier
Preface	ix	(4)
Russell Ciochon
Richard Nisbett
The Authors and the Artist	xiii	(2)
The Contributors	xv	(4)
Backdrop	xix
Richard Nisbett
Russell Ciochon
Part I: SOCIAL BEHAVIOR, COGNITION, AND INTELLIGENCE
Introduction	1	(88)
Richard Nisbett
Russell Ciochon
Dawn Starin
1 Monkey Moves	6	(6)
Peter Veit
2 Gorilla Society	12	(7)
Joan Luft
Jeanne Altmann
3 Mother Baboon	19	(9)
Carolyn Crockett
4 Family Feuds	28	(8)
Barbara Smuts
5 What Are Friends For?	36	(8)
Sarah Blaffer-Hrdy
6 Daughters or Sons	44	(12)
Meredith Small
7 Ms. Monkey	56	(4)
Dorothy Cheney
Robert Seyfarth
8 In the Minds of Monkeys	60	(6)
Takayoshi Kano
9 The Bonobos' Peaceable Kingdom	66	(8)
Christophe Boesch
Hedwige Boesch Acherman
10 Dim Forest, Bright Chimps	74	(6)
Jeanne Altmann
11 Leading Ladies	80	(4)
Craig Stanford
12 To Catch a Colobus	84	(5)
Part II: COMMUNITY ECOLOGY
Introduction	89	(44)
Richard Nisbett
Russell Ciochon
Katherine Homewood
13 Monkey on a Riverbank	93	(6)
Robert Harding
Shirley Strum
14 The Predatory Baboons of Kekopey	99	(7)
Randall Susman
15 Acrobatic Pygmy Chimpanzees	106	(7)
Richard Byrne
Jennifer Byrne
16 Leopard Killers of Mahale	113	(6)
Lysa Leland
Thomas Struhsaker
17 Teamwork Tactics	119	(5)
Dawn Starin
18 The Kindness of Strangers	124	(4)
Lynne Isbell
19 The Vervet's Year of Doom	128	(5)
Part III: DIET AND REPRODUCTION
Introduction	133	(60)
Richard Nisbett
Russell Ciochon
Robert Martin
20 Strategies of Reproduction	141	(5)
Kenneth Glander
21 Poison in the Monkey's Garden of Eden	146	(7)
Charles Janson
22 Capuchin Counterpoint	153	(8)
Jose Marcio Ayres
23 Scarlet Faces of the Amazon	161	(7)
Stephen Ferrari
24 Diet for a Small Primate	168	(6)
Sue Boinski
25 Monkeys with Inflated Sex Appeal	174	(6)
Karen Strier
26 Menu for a Monkey	180	(7)
Patricia Wright
27 Night Watch on the Amazon	187	(6)
Part IV: HUMAN-NONHUMAN PRIMATE INTERACTION AND CONSERVATION
Introduction	193	(42)
Richard Nisbett
Russell Ciochon
Jaclyn Wolfheim
28 The Perils of Primates	198	(7)
Robert Martin
Simon Bearder
29 Radio Bush Baby	205	(6)
Charles Southwick
Farooq Siddiqi
30 The Rhesus Monkey's Fall from Grace	211	(8)
Patricia Wright
31 Lemurs Lost and Found	219	(6)
Meredith Small
32 Macaque See, Macaque Do	225	(5)
Simon Bearder
33 Calls of the Wild	230	(5)
Credits for Photographs	235	(2)
Credits for Illustrations	237	(2)
Index	239