Primate Encounters

Author : Shirley C. Strum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226777559
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primate Encounters written by Shirley C. Strum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of primatology, discussing its history, the scientists in the field, and the issues that have shaped its development, particularly gender, technology, and the media.

Author : Shirley C. Strum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226777542
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primate Encounters written by Shirley C. Strum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of primatology, discussing its history, the scientists in the field, and the issues that have shaped its development, particularly gender, technology, and the media.

Author : Dominik Ohrem
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319925040
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Animal Encounters written by Dominik Ohrem and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-28 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays offers multifaceted explorations of animal encounters in a range of philosophical, cultural, literary, and historical contexts. Exploring Animal Encounters encourages us to think about the richness and complexity of animal lives and human-animal relations, foregrounding the intricate roles nonhuman creatures play in the always already more-than-human sphere of ethics and politics. In this way, the essays in this volume can be understood as a contribution to alternative imaginings of interspecies coexistence in a time in which the issue of human relations with earth and earth others has come to the fore with unprecedented force and severity.

Author : Lynne A. Isbell
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421448912
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primate Socioecology written by Lynne A. Isbell and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This game-changing book questions long-accepted rules of primate socioecology and redefines the field from the ground up. In Primate Socioecology, renowned researcher Lynne A. Isbell offers a fresh perspective on primate social organizations that redefines the field from the ground up. Through her innovative Variable Home Range Sharing model, Isbell unravels the mystery of why some primates live alone while others live in pairs or groups—a question that has perplexed scientists for decades. This new approach diverges from the traditional focus on predation pressure as the main determinant of primate social organization to reveal deeper ecological causes of primate behavior. The implications of this shift are profound, underscoring the critical importance of a behavioral-ecological mechanism in which varying movement strategies affect which females share their home ranges and ultimately pointing to a new functional classification system for primate social organizations. Isbell also discusses: • a supportive test of predicted movement strategies using activity budgets • why thermal constraints explain the dichotomy between small nocturnal primates and large diurnal primates • the role of sensory differences in nocturnal solitary foragers versus diurnal group-living primates Useful as both an introduction to primate socioecology and for those seeking a robust examination of the topic, Primate Socioecology addresses scientific debates about primate social organizations and invites researchers to question long-held assumptions.

Author : Sharon L. Gursky
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303114919X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecotourism and Indonesia's Primates written by Sharon L. Gursky and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic goal of the volume is to compile the most up to date research on the effect of ecotourism on Indonesia’s primates. The tremendous diversity of primates in Indonesia, in conjunction with the conservation issues facing the primates of this region, have created a crisis whereby many of Indonesia’s primates are threatened with extinction. Conservationists have developed the concept of “sustainable ecotourism” to fund conservation activities. National parks agencies worldwide receive as much as 84% of their funding from ecotourism. While ecotourism funds the majority of conservation activities, there have been very few studies that explore the effects of ecotourism on the habitat and species that they are designed to protect. It is the burgeoning use of “ecotourism” throughout Indonesia that has created a need for this volume where the successes and pitfalls at various sites can be identified and compared.

Author : Ghazally Ismail
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664107010
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monkey Moments written by Ghazally Ismail and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling book on monkeys and apes of the rainforests. Fascinating facts about several primate species are reflected and appealingly narrated from experiential encounters in the wilderness of Borneo. The author brilliantly takes readers through the evolution of man by selectively highlighting the physical features and behavioural biology of the species discussed in the book. Unprecedented destructions of the rainforests have driven countless animal and plant species to the brink of extinction, including monkeys and apes. Immediate and effective conservation of the rainforest habitats remain their last hope. In this book, the author is advocating mindful approaches to saving these endangered species from disappearing forever. Evolutionarily, we need to recognise the unique commonality between us humans and the primates. The connectedness goes beyond the evolution of morphological changes and adaptable features. We also share the genesis of learning behaviour and building of culture. Additionally, the book is delightfully illustrated with drawings by the author himself as he reveals the science of nature through the eyes of a naturalist.

Author : Garry Marvin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136237887
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies written by Garry Marvin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human-animal studies is an academic field that has grown exponentially over the past decade. It explores the whys, hows, and whats of human-animal relations: why animals are represented and configured in different ways in human cultures and societies around the world; how they are imagined, experienced, and given significance; what these relationships might signify about being human; and what about these relationships might be improved for the sake of the individuals as well as the communities concerned. The Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies presents a collection of original essays from artists and scholars who have established themselves internationally on the basis of specific and significant new contributions to human-animal studies. This international, interdisciplinary handbook will be of interest to students and scholars of human-animal studies, sociology, anthropology, biology, environmental studies, geography, cultural studies, history, philosophy, media studies, gender studies, literature, psychology, ethology, and visual studies.

Author : Barbara B. Smuts
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022622046X
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primate Societies written by Barbara B. Smuts and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primate Societies is a synthesis of the most current information on primate socioecology and its theoretical and empirical significance, spanning the disciplines of behavioral biology, ecology, anthropology, and psychology. It is a very rich source of ideas about other taxa. "A superb synthesis of knowledge about the social lives of non-human primates."—Alan Dixson, Nature

Author : Urs Kalbitzer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319982850
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primate Life Histories, Sex Roles, and Adaptability written by Urs Kalbitzer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Linda M. Fedigan, Member of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, has made major contributions to our understanding of the behavioural ecology of primates. Furthermore, Linda Fedigan pioneered and continues to advance scholarship on the role of women in science, as well as actively promoting the inclusion of women in the academy. A symposium in honour of her career was held in Banff (Alberta, Canada) in December 2016, during which former and current students and collaborators, as well as scientists with similar research interests, presented and discussed their work and their connections to Linda Fedigan. These presentations and discussions are here presented as chapters in this festschrift. The original works presented in this book are organized around four major research areas that have been greatly advanced and influenced by Linda Fedigan: Primate life histories Sex roles, gender, and science Primate-environment interactions Primate adaptation to changing environments

Author : Karen B. Strier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317345169
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primate Ethnographies written by Karen B. Strier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applies an ethnographic perspective to the study of primates Primate Ethnographies, 1/e is a collection of first-person accounts of immersive field studies of primates, people, and institutions, revealing the wide spectrum of primate science (primatology). Essays cover such primates as lemurs, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and apes. Readers experience the excitement of discovery and the challenges of primate field research. Primate Ethnographies can be used as a textbook or a companion reader.