Monkeys of the Taï Forest: An African Primate Community

by W. Scott McGraw, Klaus Zuberbühler, Ronald Noë

Overview

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). Featuring a large section of colour photographs, which significantly enhance the behaviours discussed in the text, the breadth of this important volume means it will be of interest to a wide variety of primatologists, functional anatomists, psychologists, and behavioural ecologists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521816335
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/10/2007
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology , #51
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	6.18(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

W. Scott McGraw is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at The Ohio State University and Affiliated Research Scientist at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Klaus Zuberbuhler is a Reader in the School of Psychology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

Ronald Noe is a Professor at the University of Louis-Pasteur and the Department of Ecology, Physiology and Ethology (IPHC-CNRS), Strasbourg, France.

Table of Contents

1: The monkeys of the Taï Forest: an introduction W. S. McGraw and K. Zuberbuhler, Part I. Social Behavior: 2. The social system of guenons P. Buzzard and W .Eckardt; 3: How small-scale differences in food competition lead to different social systems in three closely related sympatric colobines A. H. Korstjens, K. Bergman, C.Deffernez, M. Krebs, E. C. Nijssen, BAM van Oirschot, C Paukert, E. P. Schippers; 4. The structure of social relationships among sooty mangabeys in Taï F. Range, T. Forderer, Y. Meystre, C. Benetton, and C. Fruteau; Part II. Anti-Predation Strategies: 5. Interactions between leopard and monkeys K. Zuberbuhler and D. Jenny; 6. Interactions between red colobus and chimpanzees R. Bshary; 7. Interactions between African crowned eagles and their primate prey community S. Shultz and S. Thomsett; 8. Semantic information in alarm calls K. Zuberbuhler; Part III. Habitat Use: 9. Positional behavior and habitat use of Taï Forest monkeys W. S. McGraw; Part IV. Conservation: 10. Can monkey behavior be used as an indicator for poaching pressure? A case study of the Diana guenon (Cercopithecus diana) and the western red colobus (Procolobus badius) I. Kone and J. Refisch; 11. Vulnerability and conservation of the Taï Forest monkeys W. S. McGraw.

Editorial Reviews

"Taking a well-established evolutionary theory and applying it to an African primate community, McGraw and colleagues...present a fantastic synthesis of more than 15 years of pimatological research. This volume offers a wealth of information. Because such long-term data rarely exist on a single population of primates, let alone an entire community, the book will be a welcome addition to any primate behaviorist's library."
Andrea L. Baden, Stony Brook University
Evolutionary Anthropology, 2007

"Summarizing the results of 15 years of research on these Tai forest monkeys, the editors provide insight into the behavior s of the entire monkey community as a function of habitat, predators, food, and other group members and neighbors. ... This collection of scientific works sheds light on these monkeys and the challenges they face, both natural and manmade." - Wildlife Activist

"Having all of these data compiled into a format for easy comparison is extremely useful. ... the volume contains a plethora of information that could potentially be used to improve the conservation status of these species." - Toni Lyn Morelli, Ecology

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