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The Primate Anthology: Essays on Primate Behavior, Ecology and Conservation from Natural History by Russell L. Ciochon

An edited volume for sophomore/junior level courses in Primate Behavior and Ecology or Human Origins.

Unique in its broad topical coverage and accessibility to undergraduate-level students, this anthology offers a collection of 33 readings on primate behavior, ecology, and conservation - originally published in Natural History Magazine. Multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary in approach, it is ideal for use with any main text in a variety of disciplines - e.g., Anthropology, Psychology, Biology, Zoology, Animal Ecology - where primate behavior is studied.

1. Dawn Starin, Monkey Moves.
2. Peter Veit, Gorilla Society.
3. Joan Luft and Jeanne Altmann, Mother Baboon.
4. Carolyn Crockett, Family Feuds.
5. Barbara Smuts, What are Friends For?
6. Sarah Blaffer-Hrdy, Daughters or Sons.
7. Meredith Small, Ms. Monkey.
8. Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth, In the Minds of Monkeys.
9. Takayoshi Kano, The Bonobos' Peaceable Kingdom.
10. Christophe Boesch and Hedwige Boesch Acherman, Dim Forest, Bright Chimps.
11. Jeanne Altmann, Leading Ladies.
12. Craig Stanford, To Catch a Colobus.

II. COMMUNITY ECOLOGY.

Introduction, Richard Nisbett and Russell Ciochon.
13. Katherine Homewood, Monkey on a Riverbank.
14. Robert Harding and Shirley Strum, The Predatory Baboons of Kekopey.
15. Randall Susman, Acrobatic Pygmy Chimpanzees.
16. Richard Byrne and Jennifer Byrne, Leopard Killers of Mahale.
17. Lysa Leland and Thomas Struhsaker, Teamwork Tactics.
18. Dawn Starin, The Kindness of Strangers.
19. Lynne Isbell, The Vervet's Year of Doom.

III. DIET AND REPRODUCTION.

Introduction, Richard Nisbett and Russell Ciochon.
20. Robert Martin, Strategies of Reproduction.
21. Kenneth Glander, Poison in the Monkey's Garden of Eden.
22. Charles Janson, Capuchin Counterpoint.
23. Jose Marcio Ayres, Scarlet Faces of the Amazon.
24. Stephen Ferrari, Diet for a Small Primate.
25. Sue Boinski, Monkeys with Inflated Sex Appeal.
26. Karen Strier, Menu for a Monkey.
27. Patricia Wright, Night Watch on the Amazon.

IV. HUMAN-NONHUMAN PRIMATE INTERACTION AND CONSERVATION.

Introduction, Richard Nisbett and Russell Ciochon.
28. Jaclyn Wolfheim, The Perils of Primates.
29. Robert Martin and Simon Bearder, Radio Bush Baby.
30. Charles Southwick and Farooq Siddiqi, The Rhesus Monkey's Fall from Grace.
31. Patricia Wright, Lemurs Lost and Found.
32. Meredith Small, Macaque See, Macaque Do.
33. Simon Bearder, Calls of the Wild.
Index.

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GOR004385675

ISBN 13

9780136138457

ISBN 10

0136138454

Title

The Primate Anthology: Essays on Primate Behavior, Ecology and Conservation from Natural History by Russell L. Ciochon

Author

Russell L. Ciochon

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Used - Very Good

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Paperback

Publisher

Pearson Education (US)

Year published

19970928

Number of pages

288

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The Primate Anthology: Essays on Primate Behavior, Ecology and Conservation from Natural History by Russell L. Ciochon

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