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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... Tikal National Park in north ern Guatemala . * Tikal National Park , a 576 - square - kilometer reserv surrounding an immense , 2,000 - year - old Mayan city , is inhabited by spider and howler monkeys . Because our fieldwork was ...
... Tikal National Park in north ern Guatemala . * Tikal National Park , a 576 - square - kilometer reserv surrounding an immense , 2,000 - year - old Mayan city , is inhabited by spider and howler monkeys . Because our fieldwork was ...
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... Tikal . Observers carried rolls of brightly colored surveyor's tape , and marked trees used by the monkeys for ... Tikal primates Hans - Jorg Schlichte , the primatologist who worked at Tikal in 1974-75 , beautifully summarized the field ...
... Tikal . Observers carried rolls of brightly colored surveyor's tape , and marked trees used by the monkeys for ... Tikal primates Hans - Jorg Schlichte , the primatologist who worked at Tikal in 1974-75 , beautifully summarized the field ...
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... Tikal was approximately 68,000 kcal / 24 hours , this leaves a surplus of more than 50,000,000 kcal / 24 hours . Even if we double our estimates of caloric cost ( and that is an overcorrection ) , the surplus remains enormous . The ...
... Tikal was approximately 68,000 kcal / 24 hours , this leaves a surplus of more than 50,000,000 kcal / 24 hours . Even if we double our estimates of caloric cost ( and that is an overcorrection ) , the surplus remains enormous . The ...
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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