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Kinship Dominance And Social Organization In A Semi Free Ranging Group Of Ringtailed Lemurs Lemur Catta
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Book Synopsis Kinship, Dominance, and Social Organization in a Semi-free Ranging Group of Ringtailed Lemurs (Lemur Catta) by : Linda L. Taylor
Download or read book Kinship, Dominance, and Social Organization in a Semi-free Ranging Group of Ringtailed Lemurs (Lemur Catta) written by Linda L. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kinship, Dominance and Social Organization in a Semi-free Ranging Group of Ringtailed Lemurs (Lemur Catta) by : Linda Lee Taylor
Download or read book Kinship, Dominance and Social Organization in a Semi-free Ranging Group of Ringtailed Lemurs (Lemur Catta) written by Linda Lee Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lemur Social Systems and Their Ecological Basis by : J. Ganzhorn
Download or read book Lemur Social Systems and Their Ecological Basis written by J. Ganzhorn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decade has seen a steady increase in studies oflemur behavior and ecology. As a result, there is much novel information on newly studied populations, and even newly discovered species, that has not yet been published or summarized. In fact, lemurs have not been the focus of an international symposium since the Prosimian Biology Conference in London in 1972. Moreover, research on lemurs has reached a new quality by addressing general issues in behavioral ecology and evolutionary biology. Although lemurs provide important comparative information on these topics, this aspect of research on lemurs has not been reviewed and compared with similar studies in other primate radiations. Thus, as did many in the field, we felt that the time was ripe to review and synthesize our knowledge of lemur behavioral ecology. Following an initiative by Gerry Doyle, we organized a symposium at the XIVth Congress of the International Primatological Society in Strasbourg, France, where 15 contributions summarized much new information on lemur social systems and their ecological basis. This volume provides a collection of the papers presented at the Strasbourg symposium (plus two reports from recently completed field projects). Each chapter was peer-reviewed, typically by one "lemurologist" and one other biologist. The first three chapters present novel information from the first long-term field studies of three enigmatic species. Sterling describes the social organization of Daubentonia madagascariensis, showing that aye-aye ranging patterns deviate from those of all other nocturnal primates.
Book Synopsis Patterns of Affiliation and Agonism in a Ringtailed Lemur, Lemur Catta, Society by : Gena Sbeglia
Download or read book Patterns of Affiliation and Agonism in a Ringtailed Lemur, Lemur Catta, Society written by Gena Sbeglia and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Efforts to understand the variation in primate social systems and the underlying social interactions have focused on both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. In the socioecological model, food distribution and abundance have been argued to be the primary influences on the social relationships and resulting social organization of primate groups. In the first part of this study, I examined the relationship of food and three additional factors (kinship, proximity, previous agonism) with patterns of affiliative and agonistic interactions in two semi-free ranging ringtailed lemur, Lemur catta, social groups (n=14) at Duke Lemur Center in Durham, NC. Affiliation and high intensity agonism patterns (although not low intensity agonism) were best explained by kinship. Proximity also explained affiliation patterns but did not explain agonism. Food resources and previous agonism did not convincingly relate to social behavior patterns. Different intensities of agonism have different patterns and should be analyzed individually. In the second part of this study, I examined the relationship between food and the overall social organization of a group. I tested two hypotheses regarding the social organization, defined here by the dominance hierarchy, of these same two social groups: 1) The characteristics of the food resource do not dictate social organization. 2) Social organization is equally or better explained by inter-individual distance than by resource competition. The characteristics of the food source could but did not necessarily influence social organization. Furthermore, close proximity contexts better explained the rank ordering of individuals in the overall dominance hierarchy than did food-oriented contexts, which suggests that the apparent influence of food on social organization is potentially an indirect effect of low inter-individual distance. Collectively, these findings indicate that food resources did not dictate social behavior patterns in this species, nor is it the most direct explanation for overall social organization. The socioecological model's attention to food-related aggression may have distracted us from considering the influences of inter-individual distance and kinship within groups.
Book Synopsis Comparative Primate Socioecology by : P. C. Lee
Download or read book Comparative Primate Socioecology written by P. C. Lee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methodologies as applied to recent primate research that will provide new approaches to comparative research.
Book Synopsis Primate Life Histories and Socioecology by : Peter M. Kappeler
Download or read book Primate Life Histories and Socioecology written by Peter M. Kappeler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We know a great deal about roles the environment plays in shaping survival, reproductive success, and even social systems among primates. But how do primate life histories affect social systems and vice versa? Do baboons' patterns of growth, for example, help to structure their societies? Does fission-fusion sociality interact with predator pressure to influence the timing of maturation in chimpanzees? Exploring these issues and many others, the contributors to Primate Life Histories and Socioecology provide the first systematic attempt to understand relationships among primate life histories, ecology, and social behavior conjointly. Topics covered include how primate life histories interact with rates of evolution, predator pressure, and diverse social structures; how the slow maturation of primates affects the behavior of both young and adult caregivers; and reciprocal relationships between large brains and increased social and behavioral complexity. The first collection of its kind, this book will interest a wide range of researchers, from anthropologists and evolutionary biologists to psychologists and ecologists. Contributors: Paul-Michael Agapow, Susan C. Alberts, Jeanne Altmann, Robert A. Barton, Nicholas G. Blurton Jones, Robert O. Deaner, Robin I. M. Dunbar, Jörg U. Ganzhorn, Laurie R. Godfrey, Kristen Hawkes, Nick J. B. Isaac, Charles H. Janson, Kate E. Jones, William L. Jungers, Peter M. Kappeler, Susanne Klaus, Phyllis C. Lee, Steven R. Leigh, Robert D. Martin, James F. O'Connell, Sylvia Ortmann, Michael E. Pereira, Andy Purvis, Caroline Ross, Karen E. Samonds, Jutta Schmid, Stephen C. Stearns, Michael R. Sutherland, Carel P. van Schaik, and Andrea J. Webster.
Book Synopsis Reproductive Skew in Vertebrates by : Reinmar Hager
Download or read book Reproductive Skew in Vertebrates written by Reinmar Hager and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skew theory investigates the genetic and ecological factors causal to the partitioning of reproduction in animal groups and may yield fundamental insights into the evolution of animal sociality. This book brings together new theory and empirical work, mostly in vertebrates, to test assumptions and predictions of skew models.
Book Synopsis Ringtailed Lemur Biology by : Alison Jolly
Download or read book Ringtailed Lemur Biology written by Alison Jolly and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes up-to-date field research on the longest-studied and best known of lemur species. It contains articles by scientists from America, Europe, Japan and Madagascar, who combine their knowledge to describe an animal which is unique among primates. The papers review past research and add new dimensions of research related to nutrition, health, hormonal biology, plant ecology, behavioral ecology, and demography of Lemur catta.
Book Synopsis Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins by : John G Fleagle
Download or read book Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins written by John G Fleagle and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-03 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly a half century, Dr. Simons has dominated the study of primate evolution. This volume summarizes the current state of knowledge in many aspects of primate and human evolution that have been studied by Simons and his colleagues and place it in a broader paleontological and historical perspective. The book contains the results of new research as well as reviews of many of the critical issues in primate and human evolution during the last half of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Primate Ecology and Social Structure: Lorises, lemurs and tarsiers by : Robert W. Sussman
Download or read book Primate Ecology and Social Structure: Lorises, lemurs and tarsiers written by Robert W. Sussman and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For upper level biology courses on primates. This is the first resource in forty years, which reviews the latest writings and research dealing with prosimians. There are no other books available that deal with primate ecology and the behavior of free-ranging primates. This represents the most in-depth coverage, initially characterizing these animals as they exist in their least disturbed state, then comparing behavior in disturbed situations and captivity in order to gain a better understanding of primate behavior and primate communities. Each major taxonomic group is covered, including information on locomotion and habitat, diet, activity cycles, predation, social organization, communication, reproduction and infant development. Primate Ecology is well illustrated with over 130 figures and plates.
Download or read book Leaping Ahead written by Judith Masters and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaping Ahead: Advances in Prosimian Biology presents a summary of the state of prosimian biology as we move into the second decade of the 21st century. The book covers a wide range of topics, from assessments of diversity and evolutionary scenarios, through ecophysiology, cognition, behavioral and sensory ecology, to the conservation and survival prospects of this extraordinary and diverse group of mammals. The collection was inspired by an international conference in Ithala, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa in 2007, where prosimian biologists gathered from Canada, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Madagascar, South Africa, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The meeting reverberated with the passion prosimian researchers feel for their study subjects and with their deep concern for the future of prosimians in the face of ongoing habitat destruction and the burgeoning threat of bushmeat hunting. Chapters for this volume were contributed by researchers from across the globe; they attest to the diversity, vibrancy and rapid growth of prosimian biology, and to the intellectual advances that have revolutionized this field in recent years. Since its earliest beginnings, prosimian research and its resultant literature have had a strong francophone component, and researchers in many prosimian habitat countries are more comfortable reading and writing in French rather than English. French summaries of all chapters have been included. The volume is targeted at researchers, both those entering the field and established scientists, who have an interest in the biology of primates and small mammals. It is also aimed at conservation biologists seeking a deeper understanding of the faunas and conservation developments in Africa, Madagascar and Southeast Asia, and anyone who has an interest in discovering the true diversity of our order, the Primates.
Book Synopsis Primate Anti-Predator Strategies by : Sharon Gursky-Doyen
Download or read book Primate Anti-Predator Strategies written by Sharon Gursky-Doyen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume details the different ways that nocturnal primates avoid predators. It is a first of its kind within primatology, and is therefore the only work giving a broad overview of predation – nocturnal primate predation theory in particular – in the field Additionally, the book incorporates several chapters on the theoretical advances that researchers studying nocturnal primates need to make.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition by : Maryanne L. Fisher
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition written by Maryanne L. Fisher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While women are generally perceived to be less competitive than men, women compete in many ways and in a variety of situations. Women try to make themselves look more attractive to draw the attention of a desirable mate. They will use gossip as a form of informational warfare to influence reputations. They compete as mothers to gain access to resources that directly influence the health of their children. They use selfies posted on social media to manipulate others' perceptions. Women compete all of their lives: in the womb, through adolescence and adulthood, and into their elder years. The topic of women's competition has gained significant momentum over the years. Edited by Maryanne L. Fisher, The Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition provides readers with direct evidence of this growth and is one of the first scholarly volumes to focus specifically on this topic. Fisher and her team of contributors offer a definitive worldview of the current state of knowledge regarding competition among women today. Many of the chapters are grounded within an evolutionary framework, allowing for authors to investigate the adaptive nature of women's competitive behaviors, motivations, and cognition. Other chapters rely on alternative frameworks, with contributors also asserting that socio-cultural forces are the culprit shaping women's competitive drives. Additionally, several contributors focus their attention on issues faced by adolescent girls, and explore the developmental trajectories for young women through adulthood. Designed to serve as a source of inspiration for future research and direction, The Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition is a stand-out scholarly text focusing on the many competitive forces driving women today.
Book Synopsis Sex and Gender Hierarchies by : Barbara D. Miller
Download or read book Sex and Gender Hierarchies written by Barbara D. Miller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-18 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection attempts to revive a unified anthropological approach to the study of sex and gender hierarchies. Seventeen distinguished contributors - from cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology, and anthropological linguistics - have produced a wealth of fascinating data on human and primate, ancient and contemporary, and 'primitive' and developed societies, covering topics such as mothering and child care, work, health, intrafamily relationships, and public power. The interdisciplinary approach successfully contributes to the development of better theory and methodology in anthropology.
Book Synopsis International Journal of Primatology by :
Download or read book International Journal of Primatology written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Eat Or be Eaten by : Lynne E. Miller
Download or read book Eat Or be Eaten written by Lynne E. Miller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited work on behavioural strategies of primates in foraging for food, and avoiding being eaten.
Book Synopsis American journal of physical anthropology by : American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Download or read book American journal of physical anthropology written by American Association of Physical Anthropologists and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Literature."
