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Author: Natalie Lunis
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 1617722766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes how howler monkeys communicate with each other and how the sounds they make help them survive, and discusses their habitat, diet, and behavior.
Author: Anita Ganeri
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Published: 2010-09
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1432941135
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering fascinating insight into life in the rain forest, this book follows a howler monkey through its day as it sleeps, eats, and moves.
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Published: 2010-02-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781613837696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Laura K. Marsh
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-06-29
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 147573770X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume was created initially from a symposium of the same name presented at the International Primatological Society's XVIII Congress in Adelaide. South Australia. 6-12 January 2000. Many of the authors who have contributed to this text could not attend the symposium. so this has become another vehicle for the rapidly growing discipline of Fragmentation Science among primatologists. Fragmentation has quickly become a field separate from general ecology. which underscores the severity of the situation since we as a planet are rapidly losing habitat of all types to human disturbance. Getting ecologists. particularly primatologists. to admit that they study in fragments is not easy. In the field of primatology. one studies many things. but rarely do those things (genetics. behavior. population dynamics) get called out as studies in fragmentation. For some reason "fragmentation primatologists" fear that our work is somehow "not as good" as those who study in continuous habitat. We worry that perhaps our subjects are not demonstrating as robust behaviors as they "should" given fragmented or disturbed habitat conditions. I had a colleague openly state that she did not work in fragmented forests. that she merely studied behavior when it was clear that her study sites. everyone of them. was isolated habitat. Our desire to be just another link in the data chain for wild primates is so strong that it makes us deny what kinds of habitats we are working in. However.
Author: Sharon Gursky-Doyen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-05-31
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 0387348107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Martín M. Kowalewski
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-12-04
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 1493919601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHowler monkeys (genus Alouatta) comprise twelve species of leaf-eating New World monkeys that range from southern Mexico through northern Argentina. This genus is the most widespread of any New World primate taxa, and can be found to inhabit a range of forest types from undisturbed rainforest to severely anthropogenically impacted forest fragments. Although there have been many studies on individual species of howler monkeys, this book is the first comprehensive volume to place information on howler behavior and biology within a theoretical framework of ecological and social adaptability. This is the second of two volumes devoted to the genus Alouatta. This volume: · Examines behavioral and physiological mechanisms that enable howler monkeys to exploit highly disturbed and fragmented habitats · Presents models of howler monkey diet, social organization, and mating systems that can also inform researchers studying Old World colobines, apes, and other tropical mammals These goals are achieved in a collection of chapters written by a distinguished group of scientists on the feeding ecology, behavior, mating strategies, and management and conservation of howlers. This book also contains chapters on the howler microbiome, the concept of behavioral variability, sexual selection, and the role of primates in forest regeneration.
Author: Alfred L. Rosenberger
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-09
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0691143641
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book is a broad synthesis of new world monkey evolution, integrating their unique evolutionary story into the bigger picture of primate evolution and Amazon biodiversity. Capsule For more than 30 million years, New World monkeys have inhabited the forests of South and Central America. Whether these primates originally came from Africa by rafting across the Atlantic or crossing overland from North America, they soon flourished. This book tells the story of these New World monkeys. Integrating data from fossil and living animals, it explores the evolution of the three major New World monkey lineages as well as how they fit into the broader story of primate evolution and Amazon biodiversity. After providing readers with necessary background in primate taxonomy and systematics, Rosenberger shows that the notion of adaptive zones is central to our understanding of primate evolution. The idea of adaptive zones can explain how radiations evolve, morphological adaptations appear, and communities form. From here, Rosenberger synthesizes what is known about New World monkeys' unique ecological adaptations, including those involving feeding and locomotion, as well as their social behaviour. The book's concluding chapters explore theories of how primates first arrived in South America and what their future looks like given the threat of extinction. Biography Internal Use Only Alfred L. Rosenberger is Professor Emeritus of Biological Anthropology at Brooklyn College. An expert on the origin and evolution of New World Monkeys, Rosenberger has contributed numerous articles in edited volumes and his work is published in journals such as Nature, Journal of Human Evolution and American Journal of Primatology . Audience The audience for this book is scholars and graduate students in biological/physical anthropolog and primatology, and to a lesser extent conservation biology, evolutionary biology, and behavioral ecology . Rationale - no copy text Other Relevant Info - no copy text"--
Author: Gillian Houghton Gosman
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2011-08-15
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1448854113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHowler monkeys are named for their distinctive calls, which they let loose at dawn and at dusk. This informative resource doesnt monkey around in describing what howlers like to eat and where they live. The volume includes an explanation of howler monkey group behavior as well as an examination of efforts being made to preserve their endangered populations.
Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010-04-13
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 0679603735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBONUS: This edition contains a Beatrice and Virgil discussion guide. When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey—named Beatrice and Virgil—and the epic journey they undertake together. With all the spirit and originality that made Life of Pi so beloved, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. On the way Martel asks profound questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity.
Author: Katarzyna Nowak
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-01-03
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 1107134315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA ground breaking study of primates that live in flooded habitats around the world.
