Download or read book Manipulative Monkeys written by Susan Perry and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their tonsured heads, white faces, and striking cowls, the monkeys might vaguely resemble the Capuchin monks for whom they were named. How they act is something else entirely. They climb onto each other’s shoulders four deep to frighten enemies. They test friendship by sticking their fingers up one another’s noses. They often nurse—but sometimes kill—each other’s offspring. They use sex as a means of communicating. And they negotiate a remarkably intricate network of alliances, simian politics, and social intrigue. Not monkish, perhaps, but as we see in this downright ethnographic account of the capuchins of Lomas Barbudal, their world is as complex, ritualistic, and structured as any society. Manipulative Monkeys takes us into a Costa Rican forest teeming with simian drama, where since 1990 primatologists Susan Perry and Joseph H. Manson have followed the lives of four generations of capuchins. What the authors describe is behavior as entertaining—and occasionally as alarming—as it is recognizable: the competition and cooperation, the jockeying for position and status, the peaceful years under an alpha male devolving into bloody chaos, and the complex traditions passed from one generation to the next. Interspersed with their observations of the monkeys’ lives are the authors’ colorful tales of the challenges of tropical fieldwork—a mixture so rich that by the book’s end we know what it is to be a wild capuchin monkey or a field primatologist. And we are left with a clear sense of the importance of these endangered monkeys for understanding human behavioral evolution.
Download or read book The Complete Capuchin written by Dorothy M. Fragaszy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-21 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the complex nature of capuchins both in the wild and in captivity.
Download or read book Capuchin Monkeys written by Cecilia Pinto McCarthy and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2013 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Full-color photographs and simple text introduce capuchin monkeys"--
Download or read book Capuchin Monkeys written by Dorothy Munkenbeck Fragaszy and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amerindians Capuchins Cedulants written by Steve H. Dixon and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Couva is a modern pulsating town in Trinidad—an island once owned by Spain—that is prosperous and sufficiently well populated. But the town wasn’t always as lively and contemporary as it is today. Old Couva (i.e., Savaneta) had been settled by Amerindians who originated in South America. From being a stretch of mostly uncultivated fertile soil to being the centre of the Saint Anne’s Mission and founded by Roman Catholic Capuchin missionaries in Eastern Couva in 1687 to convert the pagan Amerindians to Christianity as part of Spain’s colonial policy, it emerged, after the closure of the mission, as primarily sugar plantations functioning profitably off the brutal exploitation of black slaves as labourers. Starting in the late eighteenth century, Couva was one area where the Spanish government granted land to immigrant planters to grow crops. Due to its fertile soils, the planters mostly cultivated sugarcane. Couva sprang up as a new community called Exchange Village—quite different from the Catholic mission—around St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church post-emancipation until today, when it has become Trinidad’s industrial capital based on a vibrant petrochemical industry. Couva has evolved both culturally and dynamically over the years, contributing to its rich culture, history, and heritage. This brief historical account of old Couva covers pre-Columbian times through the period of Spanish rule from 1498 to 1797, the year when the British seized control of Trinidad. It examines how the above-mentioned seminal developments have had a profound impact on the socioeconomic history of Couva. It also briefly covers the renaissance of Couva as a village and its evolution into a modern town.
Download or read book Journey of Five Capuchin Nuns written by María Rosa (Madre) and published by Acmrs Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally titled 'Account of the journey of five Capuchin nuns'"--Introd.
Download or read book The Capuchins written by Father Cuthbert (O.S.F.C.) and published by New York, Longmans. This book was released on 1929 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kasey to the Rescue written by Ellen Rogers and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of how miracles DO happen. How courage and a never-give-up spirit can emerge victorious. How an engaging little monkey helped change a family's life. Ellen Rogers considered herself something of a tragedy snob. The single mother of five believed she could weather any storm, that she could keep her family from harm with fortitude and grace. But nothing could have prepared her for the June 2005 car accident that left her son, Ned--then 22 years old--fighting for his life. Ellen refused to give in to despair. We'll get through this, she told herself. We have to. But love and determination can only go so far, and the road home was fraught with obstacles. Ellen and Ned took comfort in family and friends. And they prayed for a miracle. Miracles happen to those who believe, the saying goes, but who would have believed that one family's "miracle" would weigh in at five pounds sopping wet? Then Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled provided Ned with an affectionate and intelligent service animal with a steadfast devotion to hierarchy, a longing for "spa days," and a craving for Gummi Bears. In other words, a diva. Life with Kasey was yet another challenge for this large and lively family, but they persevered as families do, and in time this wise and sensitive animal did more than help Ned cope with his disabilities--she turned the simple tasks of life into a life worth living. Kasey's astonishing intelligence and compassion brought hope and laughter back to a family facing its greatest challenge, and helped them see the world in a new way.
Download or read book Notes Gathered from the Archives of the Cathedral Church of St Louis New Orleans Louisiana written by Celestin M. Chambon and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Capuchins in French Louisiana 1722 1766 written by Claude Lawrence Vogel and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition written by Thomas R. Zentall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade, the field of comparative cognition has grown and thrived. No less rigorous than purely behavioristic investigations, examinations of animal intelligence are useful for scientists and psychologists alike in their quest to understand the nature and mechanisms of intelligence. Extensive field research of various species has yielded exciting new areas of research, integrating findings from psychology, behavioral ecology, and ethology in a unique and wide-ranging synthesis of theory and research on animal cognition. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition contains sections on perception and illusion, attention and search, memory processes, spatial cognition, conceptualization and categorization, problem solving and behavioral flexibility, and social cognition processes including findings in primate tool usage, pattern learning, and counting. The authors have incorporated findings and theoretical approaches that reflect the current state of the field. This comprehensive volume will be a must-read for students and scientists who want to know about the state of the art of the modern science of comparative cognition.
Download or read book Report of the Minister of Agriculture for the Dominion of Canada written by Canada. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Work of the Public Archives written by Public Archives Canada and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appendix 42 in the report of the minister of agriculture for 1874 consists of a Report of proceedings connected with Canadian archives in Europe, by H.A.J.B. Verreau.
Download or read book Report of the Minister of Agriculture for Canada written by Canada. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Minister of Agriculture for the Dominion of Canada for the Year Ended March 31 written by Canada. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada 1759 1791 written by Public Archives of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Work of the Archives Branch for the Year written by Public Archives of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
