Research Catalog

Title

Food acquisition and processing in primates / edited by David J. Chivers, Bernard A. Wood, and Alan Bilsborough.

Publication

New York : Plenum Press, ©1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chivers, David John.
• Wood, Bernard A.
• Bilsborough, Alan.
• Primate Society of Great Britain.
• Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

Description

xi, 576 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• Primates > Food > Congresses
• Mammals > Food > Congresses
• Food preferences
• Food Preferences
• Primates > physiology
• Food preferences
• Mammals > Food
• Primates > Food
• Ernährungsphysiologie
• Nahrung
• Nahrungserwerb
• Primaten
• Tierökologie
• Verhalten
• Kongress

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "Proceedings of a symposium and workshop on food acquisition and processing in primates, held March 22-26, 1982, in Cambridge, England."
• Sponsored by the Primate Society of Great Britain and the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Primates: their niche structure and habitats / M.J. Coe -- Environmental grain, niche diversification and feeding behaviour in primates / S. Ripley -- Body size, brain size and feeding strategies / R.D. Martin -- Primate locomotion and diet / J.G. Fleagle -- Habitat richness, foraging range and diet in chimpanzees and some other primates / A. Kortlandt -- The adaptive capacities of the Hanuman langur and the categorizing of diet / P. Winkler -- Subcategorizing foods in primates / M.G.M. van Roosmalen -- Food acquisition and processing as a function of plant chemistry / P.G. Waterman -- Diet and gut morphology in primates / D.J. Chivers and C.M. Hladik -- Comparative functional morphology of maximum mandibular opening (gape) in primates / R.J. Smith -- Functional aspects of primate jaw morphology / K. Hiiemae -- Chewing it over: basic principles of food breakdown / P.W. Lucas and D.A. Luke -- Tooth morphology and dietary specialization / W. Mater -- Predictions of primate diets from molar wear patterns / C. Janis -- The microstructure of primate dental enamel / A. Boyde and L. Martin -- Stress-strength relationships in the mandibles of hominoids / B. Demes, H. Preuschoft and J.E.A. Wolff -- A theoretical approach to solve the chin problem / J.E.A. Wolff -- Mechanical stresses at the primate skull base caused by the temporomandibular joint force / B. Demes -- Cranial morphology and masticatory adaptations / M. Sakka -- An evolutionary model for feeding and positional behaviour / P. Andrews and L. Aiello -- Anatomy and behaviour of extinct primates / R.F. Kay and H.H. Covert -- Food acquisition and the evolution of positional behaviour: the case of bipedalism / M.D. Rose -- Deciduous molar microwear of South African Australopithecines / F.E. Grine -- Interpreting the dental peculiarities of the 'robust' Australopithecines / B.A. Wood -- Food acquisition and processing in primates: concluding discussion / D.J. Chivers, P. Andrews, H. Preuschoft, A. Bilsborough, and B.A. Wood -- Appendix: Regression lines, size and allometry / M. Hills and B.A. Wood.

ISBN

• 0306417014
• 9780306417016

LCCN

84004876

OCLC

• ocm10558673
• 10558673
• SCSB-9653811

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library