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A comprehensive account of the origins, evolution, and lifestyles of South and Central American primatesNew World Monkeys brings to life the beauty of evolution and biodiversity in action among South and Central American primates, who are now at risk. These tree-dwelling rainforest inhabitants display an unparalleled variety in size, shape, hands, feet, tails, brains, locomotion, feeding, social systems, forms of communication, and mating strategies. Primatologist Alfred Rosenberger, one of the foremost experts on these mammals, explains their fascinating adaptations and how they came about.New World Monkeys provides a dramatic picture of the sixteen living genera of New World monkeys and a fossil record that shows that their ancestors have lived in the same ecological niches for up to 20 million years—only to now find themselves imperiled by the extinction crisis. Rosenberger also challenges the argument that these primates originally came to South America from Africa by floating across the Atlantic on a raft of vegetation some 45 million years ago. He explains that they are more likely to have crossed via a landbridge that once connected Western Europe and Canada at a time when many tropical mammals transferred between the northern continents.Based on the most current findings, New World Monkeys offers the first synthesis of decades of fieldwork and laboratory and museum research conducted by hundreds of scientists.
Environmental Studies, Science: Biology/Natural History, Science: Zoology. --- Amazon. --- Amazonian rainforest. --- Atlantic Forest. --- adaptive zones. --- animal communication. --- animal tool use. --- atelidae. --- behavior. --- brain size evolution. --- capuchin. --- cebidae. --- conservation. --- diets. --- ecology. --- endangered species. --- evolutionary biology. --- evolutionary models. --- folivores. --- frugivores. --- insectivores. --- lifestyles. --- marmosets. --- mating. --- molecular clock. --- muriqui. --- neotropical mammals. --- opposable thumbs. --- paleontology. --- phylogeny. --- pithecidae. --- platyrrhines. --- prehensile tails. --- primate social behavior. --- primatology. --- spider. --- squirrel. --- systematics. --- tamarins. --- tree dwellers.
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"Most of us view animals through a very narrow lens, seeing only bits and pieces of beings that seem mostly peripheral to our lives. However, whether animals are building a shelter, seducing a mate, or inventing a new game, animals' creative choices affect their social, cultural, and environmental worlds. The Creative Lives of Animals offers readers intimate glimpses of creativity in the lives of animals, from elephants to alligators to ants. Drawing on a growing body of scientific research, Carol Gigliotti unpacks examples of creativity demonstrated by animals through the lens of the creative process, an important component of creative behavior, and offers new thinking on animal intelligence, emotion, and self-awareness. With examples of the elaborate dams built by beavers or the lavishly decorated bowers of bowerbirds, Gigliotti provides a new perspective on animals as agents in their own lives, as valuable contributors to their world and ours, and as guides in understanding how creativity may contribute to conserving the natural world. Presenting a powerful argument for the importance of recognizing animals as individuals and as creators of a healthy, biodiverse world, this book offers insights into both the established and emerging questions about the creativity of animals."--
Animal behavior --- Animal behavior. --- Nature conservation. --- Annie Potts. --- Big C. --- Bruce Bagemihl. --- Con Slobodchikov. --- Darwin. --- Don Kroodsma. --- Edward Wasserman. --- Francoise Wemelsfelder. --- Gordon Burghardt. --- Great Bear Rainforest. --- Hal Whitehead. --- Hollis Taylor. --- Karen Davis. --- Little c. --- Luke Rendell. --- Marc Bekoff. --- Mark Moffett. --- Mike Hansell. --- Richard O. Prum. --- alarm calls. --- animal architecture. --- animal communities. --- animal creativity. --- animal cultural mores. --- animal culture. --- animal emotion. --- animal intelligence. --- animal personality. --- animal personhood. --- animal tool use. --- animals. --- anthropomorphism. --- ants. --- beauty. --- beavers. --- bee democracy. --- biodiversity. --- biological exuberance. --- biology. --- bird nests. --- birdsong. --- caddisflies. --- chickens. --- conservation. --- creative behaviour. --- creative process. --- creativity. --- cultural diffusion. --- desire. --- dogs. --- elephants. --- empathy. --- ethology. --- evolutionary biology. --- hydro-engineering. --- individual choice. --- infrasonic communcation. --- keas. --- learning. --- lizards. --- memory. --- morality. --- multi-species creativity. --- multispecies creativity. --- neuroscience. --- pigeons. --- pigs. --- play. --- prairie dogs. --- reptile emotion. --- sexual selection. --- turtles. --- universal creativity. --- vibrational communication. --- whales. --- wolves.
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