Research Catalog

Title

Marmosets and tamarins : systematics, behaviour, and ecology / edited by Anthony B. Rylands.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors

Rylands, Anthony B.

Description

xv, 396 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Marmosets > Classification > Congresses
• Tamarins > Classification > Congresses
• Marmosets > Behavior > Congresses
• Tamarins > Behavior > Congresses
• Marmosets > Ecology > Congresses
• Tamarins > Ecology > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction / Anthony B. Rylands -- 1. Systematics, geographic distribution, and some notes on the conservation status of the Callitrichidae / Anthony B. Rylands, Adelmar F. Coimbra-Filho and Russell A. Mittermeier -- 2. A vocal taxonomy of the callitrichids / Charles T. Snowdon -- 3. Experimental multiple hybridism and natural hybrids among Callithrix species from eastern Brazil / Adelmar F. Coimbra-Filho, Alcides Pissinatti and Anthony B. Rylands -- 4. Making sense out of scents: species differences in scent glands, scent-marking behaviour, and scent-mark composition in the Callitrichidae / G. Epple, A.M. Belcher, I. Kuderling, U. Zeller, L. Scolnick, K.L. Greenfield and A.B. Smith III -- 5. Comparative aspects of the social suppression of reproduction in female marmosets and tamarins / D.H. Abbott, J. Barrett and L.M. George -- 6. Callitrichid mating systems: laboratory and field approaches to studies of monogamy and polyandry / A.F. Dixson.
• 7. The social organization of marmosets: a critical evaluation of recent concepts / Hartmut Rothe and Kurt Darms -- 8. Flexibility and co-operation as unifying themes in Saguinus social organization and behaviour: the role of predation pressures / Nancy G. Caine -- 9. Communal infant care in marmosets and tamarins: relation to energetics, ecology, and social organization / Suzette D. Tardif, Mary L. Harrison and Mary A. Simek -- 10. From dependence to sexual maturity: the behavioural ontogeny of Callitrichidae / Maria Emilia Yamamoto -- 11. The ecology of the pygmy marmoset, Cebuella pygmaea: some comparisons with two sympatric tamarins / Pekka Soini -- 12. Habitats, feeding ecology, and home range size in the genus Callithrix / Anthony B. Rylands and Doris S. de Faria -- 13. Feeding ecology and behaviour of the genus Saguinus / Paul A. Garber -- 14. The ecology of the lion tamarins, Leontopithecus: some intrageneric differences and comparisons with other callitrichids / Anthony B. Rylands.
• 15. Ecological differentiation in the Callitrichidae / Stephen F. Ferrari.

ISBN

0198540221 :

LCCN

92027771

OCLC

• 26350534
• ocm26350534

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries