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Primate Behaviour and Social Ecology

Hilary O. Box - Science - 2012 - 292 pages
One of the most obvious changes that has occurred in behavioural biology in recent years is that it has become conspicuously a problem orientated subject. Moreover, one of the ...
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Understanding Behavior: What Primate Studies Tell Us about Human Behavior

James Loy, Calvin B. Peters - Animal behavior - 1991 - 288 pages
Scientific studies of monkeys, apes, and other nonhuman primates began just over 50 years ago. Since then tens of thousands of hours of observation have been made on these ...
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Primate Politics

Glendon A. Schubert, Roger D. Masters - Political Science - 1991 - 320 pages
The first book to focus on the political behavior of primates also undertakes to compare human social behavior with that of nonhuman primates. The editors contribute probing ...
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The Predatory Behavior of Wild Chimpanzees

Geza Teleki - Nature - 1973 - 244 pages
Geza Teleki has spent two years observing wild chimpanzees at very close quarters in the Gombe National Park of Tanzania. He has compiled this report on predatory behavior ...
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Primate Paradigms: Sex Roles and Social Bonds

Linda Marie Fedigan - Science - 1992 - 456 pages
This critical review of behavior patterns in nonhuman primates is an excellent study of the importance of female roles in different social groups and their significance in the ...
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The Neglected Ape

Biruté M.F. Galdikas, R.D. Nadler, N. Rosen, Lori K. Sheeran - Science - 1996 - 320 pages
The orangutan is the most highly endangered species of great ape. Orangutans are threatened by deforestation, poaching, the illegal pet trade, and the isolation and fragmen ...
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Baboon Mothers and Infants

Jeanne Altmann - Science - 2001 - 276 pages
P. 40.
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