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Book Howler Monkeys

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martín M. Kowalewski
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2014-12-04
  • ISBN : 1493919601
  • Pages : 447 pages

Download or read book Howler Monkeys written by Martín M. Kowalewski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howler monkeys (genus Alouatta) comprise twelve species of leaf-eating New World monkeys that range from southern Mexico through northern Argentina. This genus is the most widespread of any New World primate taxa, and can be found to inhabit a range of forest types from undisturbed rainforest to severely anthropogenically impacted forest fragments. Although there have been many studies on individual species of howler monkeys, this book is the first comprehensive volume to place information on howler behavior and biology within a theoretical framework of ecological and social adaptability. This is the second of two volumes devoted to the genus Alouatta. This volume: · Examines behavioral and physiological mechanisms that enable howler monkeys to exploit highly disturbed and fragmented habitats · Presents models of howler monkey diet, social organization, and mating systems that can also inform researchers studying Old World colobines, apes, and other tropical mammals These goals are achieved in a collection of chapters written by a distinguished group of scientists on the feeding ecology, behavior, mating strategies, and management and conservation of howlers. This book also contains chapters on the howler microbiome, the concept of behavioral variability, sexual selection, and the role of primates in forest regeneration.

Book Spatial Foraging Patterns and Ranging Behavior of the Mantled Howler Monkeys  Alouatta Palliata   Barro Colorado Island  Panama

Download or read book Spatial Foraging Patterns and Ranging Behavior of the Mantled Howler Monkeys Alouatta Palliata Barro Colorado Island Panama written by Mariah Edna Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Foraging Strategy of Howler Monkeys

Download or read book The Foraging Strategy of Howler Monkeys written by Katharine Milton and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of short stories focuses on the Scottish civil war of 1644-45, in which the Marquis of Montrose led his royalist forces in a series of stunning victories against the odds before his final defeat at Philiphaugh. Each of Hogg's five tales centres on one of the five major battles of Montrose's brilliant but ultimately futile campaign. Each tale is utterly different from the others in genre and tone, but taken together they build up a composite picture of what it was like to experience the 'anarchy and confusion' of the time at first hand.

Book The Influence of Edge Effects on Mantled Howler Monkey  alouatta Palliata  Food Resource Use and Availability in a Fragmented Forest

Download or read book The Influence of Edge Effects on Mantled Howler Monkey alouatta Palliata Food Resource Use and Availability in a Fragmented Forest written by Dorian G. Russell and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-quarters of primate species are seeing habitat-related population declines, and nearly half of tropical forest area is in fragmented landscape. Previous research revealed challenges for mantled howler monkeys in rainforest fragments, including local extirpations. This study sought to deepen understanding of mantled howler monkey ecology in fragments by comparing food resource use and availability in edge and core zones. Mantled howler monkeys were observed at the La Suerte Biological Field Station in Costa Rica from May to August 2017 using a focal animal point sampling method incorporating food resource identifications. Habitat quality was assessed through vegetation survey plots investigating species richness, tree density, tree maturity, and canopy connectivity in edge and core zones. Time spent feeding and characteristics of feeding trees did not significantly vary in edge and core, however, forest density and canopy connectivity differences in edge and core were observed.

Book A Field Guide to the Mammals of Central America and Southeast Mexico

Download or read book A Field Guide to the Mammals of Central America and Southeast Mexico written by and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only comprehensive guide to mammals in Central America and Southeast Mexico. Unlike most field guides, it covers smaller mammals in depth and also provides an extensive bibliography. In addition to detailed species accounts and range maps for all species, the book has 52 full-color plates. The 49 animal plates cover almost all the species in the region. 4 color maps are new to the second edition, detailing parks, elevations and biomes in the region.

Book Primates in Fragments

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura K. Marsh
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-06-29
  • ISBN : 147573770X
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Primates in Fragments written by Laura K. Marsh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume was created initially from a symposium of the same name presented at the International Primatological Society's XVIII Congress in Adelaide. South Australia. 6-12 January 2000. Many of the authors who have contributed to this text could not attend the symposium. so this has become another vehicle for the rapidly growing discipline of Fragmentation Science among primatologists. Fragmentation has quickly become a field separate from general ecology. which underscores the severity of the situation since we as a planet are rapidly losing habitat of all types to human disturbance. Getting ecologists. particularly primatologists. to admit that they study in fragments is not easy. In the field of primatology. one studies many things. but rarely do those things (genetics. behavior. population dynamics) get called out as studies in fragmentation. For some reason "fragmentation primatologists" fear that our work is somehow "not as good" as those who study in continuous habitat. We worry that perhaps our subjects are not demonstrating as robust behaviors as they "should" given fragmented or disturbed habitat conditions. I had a colleague openly state that she did not work in fragmented forests. that she merely studied behavior when it was clear that her study sites. everyone of them. was isolated habitat. Our desire to be just another link in the data chain for wild primates is so strong that it makes us deny what kinds of habitats we are working in. However.

Book Primates in Flooded Habitats

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katarzyna Nowak
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2019-01-03
  • ISBN : 1107134315
  • Pages : 481 pages

Download or read book Primates in Flooded Habitats written by Katarzyna Nowak and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground breaking study of primates that live in flooded habitats around the world.

Book The Woolly Monkey

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas R. Defler
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2014-05-27
  • ISBN : 1493906976
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book The Woolly Monkey written by Thomas R. Defler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woolly monkeys are large, attractive and widespread primates found throughout many parts of the Amazon basin. It is only in the last twenty-five years or so that long-term studies of woollies in their forest habitat have been successful; they have not generally been successfully kept in captivity. But now, especially because of their size, these creatures are pressed on all sides by bush meat hunters and forest fragmentation. Their future is becoming critically precarious and the editors feel that it is time to showcase these animals with a full book. The editors draw together a number of recent woolly monkey studies from three Amazonian countries, including five taxa of woolly monkeys, four of which have recently been reclassified without using new biological criteria as species rather than subspecies (Groves, 2001, 2005; Rylands & Mittermeier, 2009). This volume provides a diversity of studies by well-known researchers and advanced students on a wide range of subjects using newly generated data, including a criticism of the recent taxonomic changes. The varied information contained within The Woolly Monkey: Behavior, Ecology, Systematics and Captive Research will help readers understand these handsome animals and will, we hope, energize them to contribute to their conservation.

Book Howler Monkeys

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martín M. Kowalewski
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2016-09-22
  • ISBN : 9781493956036
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Howler Monkeys written by Martín M. Kowalewski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howler monkeys (genus Alouatta) comprise twelve species of leaf-eating New World monkeys that range from southern Mexico through northern Argentina. This genus is the most widespread of any New World primate taxa, and can be found to inhabit a range of forest types from undisturbed rainforest to severely anthropogenically impacted forest fragments. Although there have been many studies on individual species of howler monkeys, this book is the first comprehensive volume to place information on howler behavior and biology within a theoretical framework of ecological and social adaptability. This is the second of two volumes devoted to the genus Alouatta. This volume: · Examines behavioral and physiological mechanisms that enable howler monkeys to exploit highly disturbed and fragmented habitats · Presents models of howler monkey diet, social organization, and mating systems that can also inform researchers studying Old World colobines, apes, and other tropical mammals These goals are achieved in a collection of chapters written by a distinguished group of scientists on the feeding ecology, behavior, mating strategies, and management and conservation of howlers. This book also contains chapters on the howler microbiome, the concept of behavioral variability, sexual selection, and the role of primates in forest regeneration.

Book The Social Life Of Monkeys And Apes

Download or read book The Social Life Of Monkeys And Apes written by S. Zuckerman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume IV of four in a collection on Comparative Psychology. Originally published in 1932, this study is referred to as a classic, in both historical terms and its usefulness in the study of primates.

Book Foraging Strategy and Tactics of the Mantled Howler Monkey  Alouatta Villosa  in Relation to Plant Secondary Compounds

Download or read book Foraging Strategy and Tactics of the Mantled Howler Monkey Alouatta Villosa in Relation to Plant Secondary Compounds written by Michael Seth Banks and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: