Primate Anti Predator Strategies

Author : Sharon Gursky-Doyen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387348107
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primate Anti-Predator Strategies written by Sharon Gursky-Doyen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume details the different ways that nocturnal primates avoid predators. It is a first of its kind within primatology, and is therefore the only work giving a broad overview of predation – nocturnal primate predation theory in particular – in the field Additionally, the book incorporates several chapters on the theoretical advances that researchers studying nocturnal primates need to make.

Author : Paul A. Garber
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387787054
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South American Primates written by Paul A. Garber and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This will be the first time a volume will be compiled focusing on South American monkeys as models to address and test critical issues in the study of nonhuman primates. In addition, the volume will serve an important compliment to the book on Mesoamerican primates recently published in the series under the DIPR book series. The book will be of interest to a broad range of scientists in various disciplines, ranging from primatology, to animal behavior, animal ecology, conservation biology, veterinary science, animal husbandry, anthropology, and natural resource management. Moreover, although the volume will highlight South American primates, chapters will not simply review particular taxa or topics. Rather the focus of each chapter is to examine the nature and range of primate responses to changes in their ecological and social environments, and to use data on South American monkeys to address critical theoretical questions in the study of primate behavior, ecology, and conservation. Thus, we anticipate that the volume will be widely read by a broad range of students and researchers interested in prosimians, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, apes, humans, as well as animal behavior and tropical biology.

Author : Timothy M. Caro
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226094367
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antipredator Defenses in Birds and Mammals written by Timothy M. Caro and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Caro explores the many & varied ways in which prey species have evolved defensive characteristics and behaviour to confuse, outperform or outwit their predators, from the camoflaged coat of the giraffe to the extraordinary way in which South American sealions ward off the attacks of killer whales.

Author : Lynne E. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521011044
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eat Or be Eaten written by Lynne E. Miller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited work on behavioural strategies of primates in foraging for food, and avoiding being eaten.

Author : Beth Alison Schultz Shook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781931303811
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explorations written by Beth Alison Schultz Shook and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Guy Beauchamp
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0124076548
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Predation written by Guy Beauchamp and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-12-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic literature on predation dealt almost exclusively with solitary predators and their prey. Going back to Lotka-Volterra and optimal foraging theory, the theory about predation, including predator-prey population dynamics, was developed for solitary species. Various consequences of sociality for predators have been considered only recently. Similarly, while it was long recognized that prey species can benefit from living in groups, research on the adaptive value of sociality for prey species mostly emerged in the 1970s. The main theme of this book is the various ways that predators and prey may benefit from living in groups. The first part focusses on predators and explores how group membership influences predation success rate, from searching to subduing prey. The second part focusses on how prey in groups can detect and escape predators. The final section explores group size and composition and how individuals respond over evolutionary times to the challenges posed by chasing or being chased by animals in groups. This book will help the reader understand current issues in social predation theory and provide a synthesis of the literature across a broad range of animal taxa. Includes the whole taxonomical range rather than limiting it to a select few Features in-depth analysis that allows a better understanding of many subtleties surrounding the issues related to social predation Presents both models and empirical results while covering the extensive predator and prey literature Contains extensive illustrations and separate boxes that cover more technical features, i.e., to present models and review results

Author : Dawn Burnham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783318022797
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primate-predator Interactions written by Dawn Burnham and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primates and felids interact as prey and predators within communities, but they also share a number of parallel features - both taxa have complex societies, find themselves in conflict with people and face escalating conservation challenges. Based on a Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB) and Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) special meeting on primates and felids, this Folia Primatologica special issue provides a rich selection of current primate and predator research across all primate habitats and regions of the world. It covers topics as diverse as global similarities and differences in primate and felid distributions and conservation measures, human conflict with primates and felids, the evolutionary history and palaeo-ecology of predation on primates, predation on nocturnal primates, primate antipredator behaviour, spatial interactions between patas monkeys and predators, ape predation in Africa and predation effects on group living in baboons. 'Primate-Predator Interactions' provides a compendious reference point for primatologists and predator biologists alike, and will capture the interest of all biologists with an interest in community ecology and predator-prey systems.

Author : Kerry M. Dore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107109965
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnoprimatology written by Kerry M. Dore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A how-to guide for ethnoprimatological research in the Anthropocene, offering an inside look at the latest research in the field.

Author : Diane K. Brockman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139445481
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seasonality in Primates written by Diane K. Brockman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of the genus Homo is widely linked to the colonization of 'new' highly seasonal savannah habitats. However, until recently, our understanding of the possible impact of seasonality on this shift has been limited because we have little general knowledge of how seasonality affects the lives of primates. This book documents the extent of seasonality in food abundance in tropical woody vegetation, and then presents systematic analyses of the impact of seasonality in food supply on the behavioural ecology of non-human primates. Syntheses in this volume then produce broad generalizations concerning the impact of seasonality on behavioural ecology and reproduction in both human and non-human primates, and apply these insights to primate and human evolution. Written for graduate students and researchers in biological anthropology and behavioural ecology, this is an absorbing account of how seasonality may have affected an important episode in our own evolution.

Author : J. Ganzhorn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489924124
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lemur Social Systems and Their Ecological Basis written by J. Ganzhorn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decade has seen a steady increase in studies oflemur behavior and ecology. As a result, there is much novel information on newly studied populations, and even newly discovered species, that has not yet been published or summarized. In fact, lemurs have not been the focus of an international symposium since the Prosimian Biology Conference in London in 1972. Moreover, research on lemurs has reached a new quality by addressing general issues in behavioral ecology and evolutionary biology. Although lemurs provide important comparative information on these topics, this aspect of research on lemurs has not been reviewed and compared with similar studies in other primate radiations. Thus, as did many in the field, we felt that the time was ripe to review and synthesize our knowledge of lemur behavioral ecology. Following an initiative by Gerry Doyle, we organized a symposium at the XIVth Congress of the International Primatological Society in Strasbourg, France, where 15 contributions summarized much new information on lemur social systems and their ecological basis. This volume provides a collection of the papers presented at the Strasbourg symposium (plus two reports from recently completed field projects). Each chapter was peer-reviewed, typically by one "lemurologist" and one other biologist. The first three chapters present novel information from the first long-term field studies of three enigmatic species. Sterling describes the social organization of Daubentonia madagascariensis, showing that aye-aye ranging patterns deviate from those of all other nocturnal primates.