Research Catalog

Title

Primate ecology and conservation / edited by James G. Else, Phyllis C. Lee.

Author

International Primatological Society. Congress (10th : 1984 : Nairobi, Kenya)

Publication

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Else, James G.
• Lee, Phyllis C.

Description

xii, 393 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

• Selected proceedings of the Tenth Congress of the International Primatological Society ; v. 2
• International Primatological Society. Congress (10th : 1984 : Nairobi, Kenya). Selected proceedings of the Tenth Congress of the International Primatological Society ; v. 2.

Subject

• Primates > Ecology > Congresses
• Wildlife conservation > Congresses
• Mammals > Ecology > Congresses
• Conservation of natural resources
• Ecology
• Primates
• Conservation of Natural Resources
• Ecology
• Primates
• ecology
• Primates (order)
• Conservation of natural resources
• Mammals > Ecology
• Primates > Ecology
• Wildlife conservation
• Primaten
• Ökologie
• Kongress
• Artenschutz
• Primates > Ecologie > Recueils d'articles
• Nature > Conservation > Recueils d'articles

Genre/Form

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Credits (note)

• At head of title: Selected proceedings of the Tenth Congress of the International Primatological Society, held in Nairobi, Kenya in July, 1984, vol. 2.

Contents

Current issues and new approaches in primate ecology and conservation / D.J. Chivers -- The influence of plant chemistry on food selection by Lemur catta and Lemur fulvus / J.U. Ganzhorn -- Feeding ecology of black colobus (Colobus satanas) in central Gabon / M.J.S. Harrison -- Natural and synthetic diets of Malayan gibbons / D.J. Chivers and J.J. Raemaekers -- Tool use in the exploitation of food resources in Cebus apella / E. Visalberghi and F. Antinucci -- Dental microwear and diet in two species of Colobus / M.F. Teaford -- Differential influence of various sweet solutions on caloric regulation by rhesus monkeys / J.W. Kemnitz and M.M. Neu -- Gastro-intestinal allometry in primates and other mammals including new species / A.M. MacLarnon, D.J. Chivers and R.D. Martin -- Ecology and behaviour of rhesus monkeys in India / P.K. Seth and S. Seth -- Time budgets and activity patterns in free-ranging rhesus monkeys / I. Malik -- The ecology of the hoolock gibbon, Hylobates hoolock, in Tripura, India / R.P. Mukherjee -- Social organization of two sympatric galagos at Gedi, Kenya / L.T. Nash -- An experimental study of territory maintenance in captive titi monkeys (Callicebus moloch) / C.R. Menzel -- Leadership : decision processes of group movement in yellow baboons / G.W. Norton -- Ecological correlates of monogamy in Aotus and Callicebus / P.C. Wright -- The mating system as a determinant of social evolution in capuchin monkeys (Cebus) / C.H. Janson -- Ecological determinants of fission-fusion sociality in Ateles and Pan / M.J. McFarland -- Cooperative polyandry and helping behavior in saddle-backed tamarins (Saguinus fuscicollis) / A.W. Goldizen and J. Terborgh -- The social systems of New World primates : an adaptionist view / J. Terborgh -- A role for long-term primate field research in source countries / S.C. Strum -- Activity budgets and the consumption of human food in two troops of baboons, Papio anubis, at Gilgil, Kenya / D.L. Forthman Quick -- Ecology and behaviour of vervet monkeys in a tourist lodge habitat / P.C. Lee, E.J. Brennan, J.G. Else and J. Altmann -- Hill tribe peoples and primate conservation in Thailand : a preliminary assessment of the problem of reconciling shifting cultivation with conservation objectives / A.A. Eudey -- Restoring the balance : traditional hunting and primate conservation in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia / A.H. Mitchell and R.L. Tilson -- Studying the treescape / A. Kortlandt -- Assessing primate habitat using Landsat technology / K.M. Green -- Demographic trends in the Alouatta palliata and Cebus capucinus populations of Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica / L.M. Fedigan -- The contribution of zoos to primate conservation / D.G. Lindburg, J. Berkson and L. Nightenhelser -- Captive breeding of callitrichids : a comparison of reproduction and propagation in different species / M.F. Stevenson -- Management of reproduction in a breeding colony of bushbabies / M.K. Izard and E.L. Simons -- A global overview of primate conservation / R.A. Mittermeier -- Introduction: Primate conservation in the broader realm / D. Western -- Conserving New World primates : present problems and future solutions / J. Terborgh -- Activist conservation : the human factor in primate conservation in source countries / S.C. Strum -- Physiological aids in the conservation of primates / J.P. Hearn.

ISBN

• 0521324513
• 9780521324519
• 0521310121
• 9780521310123

LCCN

86008287

OCLC

• ocm13423883
• 13423883
• SCSB-9655367

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library