Patterns of Primate BehaviorThis newly revised second edition introduces the perspective that a primatologist brings to an understanding of behavior. The text provides a framework, comparative attitude, & anecdotal examples. |
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Page 126
... Struhsaker's study troops . Such a finding suggests high mortality among breeding females . Home range Each vervet troop occupies a home range that may be as small as 18 hectares and as large as 96 hectares . Within its home range each ...
... Struhsaker's study troops . Such a finding suggests high mortality among breeding females . Home range Each vervet troop occupies a home range that may be as small as 18 hectares and as large as 96 hectares . Within its home range each ...
Page 128
... Struhsaker revisited Amboseli in November 1971 after an absence of seven years , and found the habitat greatly changed Grass , thicket cover , and fever trees had all diminished considerably Perhaps 90 percent of the fever trees - the ...
... Struhsaker revisited Amboseli in November 1971 after an absence of seven years , and found the habitat greatly changed Grass , thicket cover , and fever trees had all diminished considerably Perhaps 90 percent of the fever trees - the ...
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... Struhsaker , Gartlan , and Lancaster , have described in detail the vervet pattern of infant rearing . At birth , vervets have a distinct pelage , with silky dark hair and pink Major field studies of vervet monkeys Reference Struhsaker ...
... Struhsaker , Gartlan , and Lancaster , have described in detail the vervet pattern of infant rearing . At birth , vervets have a distinct pelage , with silky dark hair and pink Major field studies of vervet monkeys Reference Struhsaker ...
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TWO | 27 |
Communication | 41 |
Sensory limitations on the perception of communication | 58 |
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activity adult females adult males Africa aggression animal's animals anthropoids apes appear arboreal Barro Colorado Island cage central chacma baboons characteristics chimpanzees color common baboon communication copulation cycle disease displays dominance status ecology estrus feeding field study foraging forest free-ranging frequently fruit geladas gibbons glands Gombe gorilla grooming Group composition habitat hamadryas hamadryas baboons Harlow hectares hierarchy home range hormones howler monkeys howling human infant infection interactions Japanese macaques juveniles laboratory langurs leader male lemurs lifeways meters mother move movements nonhuman primates observer occur offspring Old World olfactory one-male ordinary males Papio patas monkey pattern percent plants play population predation primate behavior primates primatologists prosimians records relationships reproductive response rhesus monkeys role savanna sexual sexual dimorphism signals skin sleeping social behavior social organization species spider monkeys Struhsaker study area subgroups subleaders Tikal tion trees troop variability vervet monkeys vocalizations Washoe