The Complete Capuchin
Author: Dorothy M. Fragaszy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-06-21
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780521667685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the complex nature of capuchins both in the wild and in captivity.
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Manipulative Monkeys
Author: Susan Perry
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011-03-11
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0674266439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith their tonsured heads, white faces, and striking cowls, the monkeys might vaguely resemble the Capuchin monks for whom they were named. How they act is something else entirely. They climb onto each other’s shoulders four deep to frighten enemies. They test friendship by sticking their fingers up one another’s noses. They often nurse—but sometimes kill—each other’s offspring. They use sex as a means of communicating. And they negotiate a remarkably intricate network of alliances, simian politics, and social intrigue. Not monkish, perhaps, but as we see in this downright ethnographic account of the capuchins of Lomas Barbudal, their world is as complex, ritualistic, and structured as any society. Manipulative Monkeys takes us into a Costa Rican forest teeming with simian drama, where since 1990 primatologists Susan Perry and Joseph H. Manson have followed the lives of four generations of capuchins. What the authors describe is behavior as entertaining—and occasionally as alarming—as it is recognizable: the competition and cooperation, the jockeying for position and status, the peaceful years under an alpha male devolving into bloody chaos, and the complex traditions passed from one generation to the next. Interspersed with their observations of the monkeys’ lives are the authors’ colorful tales of the challenges of tropical fieldwork—a mixture so rich that by the book’s end we know what it is to be a wild capuchin monkey or a field primatologist. And we are left with a clear sense of the importance of these endangered monkeys for understanding human behavioral evolution.
Capuchin Monkeys
Author: Cecilia Pinto McCarthy
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1620651084
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Capuchin Monkeys
Author: Dorothy Munkenbeck Fragaszy
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Complete Geography
Author: Horace Sumner Tarbell
Publisher:
Published: 1899
Total Pages: 352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJourney of Five Capuchin Nuns
Author: María Rosa (Madre)
Publisher: Acmrs Publications
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780772720504
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Originally titled 'Account of the journey of five Capuchin nuns'"--Introd.
Comparative Cognition
Author: Edward A. Wasserman
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 734
ISBN-13: 9780195167658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1978, Hulse, Fowler, and Honig published Cognitive Processes in Animal Behavior, an edited volume that was a landmark in the scientific study of animal intelligence. It liberated interest in complex learning and cognition from the grasp of the rigid theoretical structures of behaviorism that had prevailed during the previous four decades, and as a result, the field of comparative cognition was born. At long last, the study of the cognitive capacities of animals other than humans emerged as a worthwhile scientific enterprise. No less rigorous than purely behavioristic investigations, studies of animal intelligence spanned such wide-ranging topics as perception, spatial learning and memory, timing and numerical competence, categorization and conceptualization, problem solving, rule learning, and creativity. During the ensuing 25 years, the field of comparative cognition has thrived and grown, and public interest in it has risen to unprecedented levels. In their quest to understand the nature and mechanisms of intelligence, researchers have studied animals from bees to chimpanzees. Sessions on comparative cognition have become common at meetings of the major societies for psychology and neuroscience, and in fact, research in comparative cognition has increased so much that a separate society, the Comparative Cognition Society, has been formed to bring it together. This volume celebrates comparative cognition's first quarter century with a state-of-the-art collection of chapters covering the broad realm of the scientific study of animal intelligence. Comparative Cognition will be an invaluable resource for students and professional researchers in all areas of psychology and neuroscience.
Advances in the Study of Behavior
Author: Marc Naguib
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2012-06-22
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0123942888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior. That number is still expanding. This thematic volume makes another important "contribution to the development of the field" bybringing together material that aggregates studies conducted on the behavior of tropical animals. Advances in the Study of Behavior is now available online at ScienceDirect - full-text online from volume 30 onward
New World Monkeys
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"--
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition
Author: Thomas R. Zentall
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2012-03-20
Total Pages: 941
ISBN-13: 0195392663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive volume illustrates why an understanding of animal intelligence is essential in disclosing the nature of minds other than our own making it a fascinating volume for anyone curious about the state of modern comparative cognition.
