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Monkeys. --- Monkeys --- Haplorhini --- Primates --- Behavior. --- Diseases.

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A great deal has been written about primates; however few volumes have focused on an entire community of sympatric monkeys at a single site. Drawing upon diverse sets of data, the authors provide a multi-thematic case study of the entire monkey community of the Taï forest (Ivory Coast). Much of the book explores how the seven monkey species have adapted to hunting pressures from chimpanzees, leopards, crowned eagles and humans. Other themes covered include feeding ecology, social behaviour, positional behaviour and habitat use, vocal communication and conservation. Colour photographs of all species are provided, showing the major behavioural characteristics of each, as little is known about these West African monkeys. This scientifically important volume will be of interest to a broad audience including primatologists, functional anatomists, psychologists, and behavioural ecologists.

Monkeys --- Cercopithecidae --- Social behavior in animals --- Animal behavior --- Animal societies --- Old World monkeys --- Primates --- Haplorhini --- Behavior

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Where We Stand Field workers—scientists of animal (including human!) behavior in nature—have long been fascinated by wild chimpanzees. A person who once has studied wild chimpanzees will be eager to observe them again. A person who has studied them twice will make every effort to continue the study, unless prevented from doing so. In short, behavioral primatology is addictive! Many people, among them Jane Goodall, Richard Wrangham, and I, do not regret that they have dedicated their whole lives to the study of wild chimpanzees. This is because the apes’ behavior is always challenging: chimpanzees are cheerful, charming, playful, curious, beautiful, easygoing, generous, tolerant, and trustw- thy most of the time, but also are cautious, cunning, ugly, violent, ferocious, blo- thirsty, greedy, and disloyal at other times. We human beings share both the light and dark sides with our closest living relatives. For decades, we have documented huge across-population variation in behavior, as well as within-population variation. Cultural biology (now called cultural pri- tology), as proposed 60 years ago by Kinji Imanishi, recently has flourished.

Chimpanzees -- Behavior. --- Chimpanzees. --- Chimpanzees --- Bonobo --- Hominidae --- Publication Formats --- Behavior --- Publication Characteristics --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Catarrhini --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Haplorhini --- Primates --- Mammals --- Vertebrates --- Chordata --- Animals --- Eukaryota --- Organisms --- Pan troglodytes --- Pictorial Works --- Encyclopedias --- Pan paniscus --- Behavior, Animal --- Zoology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Zoology - General --- Chimpanzee --- Chimp --- Common chimpanzee --- Robust chimpanzee --- Life sciences. --- Zoology. --- Life Sciences. --- Biology --- Natural history --- Pan (Mammals)

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Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) have been studied by primatologists since 1948, and considerable knowledge of the primate has been accumulated to elucidate the adaptation of the species over time and to distinct environments in Japan. The Japanese macaque is especially suited to intragenera and interpopulation comparative studies of behavior, physiology, and morphology, and to socioecology studies in general. This book, the most comprehensive ever published in English on Japanese macaques, is replete with contributions by leading researchers in field primatology. Highlighted are topics of intraspecific variations in the ecology and behaviors of the macaque. Such variations provide evidence of the ecological determinants on this species’ mating and social behaviors, along with evidence of cultural behavior. The book also addresses morphology, population genetics, recent habitat change, and conflicts with humans, and attests to the plasticity and complex adaptive system of macaque societies. The valuable information in this volume is recommended reading for researchers in primatology, anthropology, zoology, animal behavior, and conservation biology.

Japanese macaque. --- Monkeys. --- Japanese macaque --- Cercopithecinae --- Behavior --- Far East --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Asia --- Cercopithecidae --- Japan --- Behavior, Animal --- Macaca --- Catarrhini --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Geographic Locations --- Haplorhini --- Geographicals --- Primates --- Mammals --- Vertebrates --- Chordata --- Animals --- Eukaryota --- Organisms --- Zoology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Zoology - General --- Macaca fuscata --- Snow monkeys --- Life sciences. --- Conservation biology. --- Ecology. --- Zoology. --- Neurobiology. --- Life Sciences. --- Conservation Biology/Ecology. --- Macaques --- Ecology --- Nature conservation --- Neurosciences --- Biology --- Natural history --- Ecology . --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology

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This volume addresses the origin of the human genus Homo, a major transition in human evolution and associated with major changes in brain size, locomotion, and culture, but one with many unanswered questions. How many different species of Homo were there, and how were they interrelated? Are stone tools a characteristic of early Homo? What was their function? How does the use of stone tools relate to changes in the dentition and brain size? Did adaptations for long distance running first appear with the origin of this genus? How does this relate to its diet and cultural abilities.

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