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.
Download or read book The Foraging Strategy of the Howler Monkey in the Tropical Forest of Colorado Island Panama written by Katharine Milton and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Foraging Strategy of the Howler Monkey in the Tropical Forest of Barro Colorado Island Panama written by Katherine Vasser Milton and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Foraging Strategy of the Howler Monkey in the Tropical Forest of Barro Colorado Island Pananma written by Katharine Milton and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
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.
Download or read book Foraging Strategies Group Size and Food Competition in the Mantled Howler Monkey Alouatta Palliata written by François Larose and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
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.
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.
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.
Download or read book Post Genome Biology of Primates written by Hirohisa Hirai and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2001, first reports of the human draft genome were published. Since then, genomes of many other organisms have been sequenced, including several primate species: the chimpanzee, rhesus macaque, gorilla, orangutan, gibbon, baboon, marmoset, tarsier, galago, lemur, and more recently Neanderthals. In a new era of "post-genome biology", scientists now have the vast amount of information revealed by genome research to confront one of the most challenging, fundamental questions in primatology and anthropology: What makes us human? This volume comprises a collection of articles on a variety of topics relevant to primate genomes, including evolution, human origins, genome structure, chromosome genomics, and bioinformatics. The book covers the cutting-edge research in molecular primatology and provides great insights into the functional diversity of primates. This valuable collection will benefit researchers and students, including primatologists, anthropologists, molecular biologists, evolutionary biologists, and animal behaviorists.
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.
Download or read book The Ontogeny of Feeding Behavior of Nicaraguan Mantled Howler Monkeys Alouatta Palliata written by Melissa L. Raguet-Schofield and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is an investigation of the relationship between diet and life history in Primates. The goal of this research is to evaluate the hypothesis that accelerated growth and maturation schedules of folivorous primates enable these species to rapidly attain the ability to masticate and digest mechanically demanding leaf resources. In order to determine how dietary patterns underlie the evolution of primate life history strategies, I conducted a year-long study on the acquisition of foraging proficiency in juvenile mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) inhabiting La Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua (11°40' N, 85°50' W). I predicted that juveniles are less efficient foragers than adults, that juvenile and adult diets differ, that juveniles rely on their mothers0́9 milk during periods of seasonal food stress, and that juvenile mortality increases when tough resources are an important dietary component. To evaluate these predictions, I followed two groups of mantled howler monkeys0́4collecting behavioral data on juveniles, adult females, and adult males0́4and I quantified the toughness of the leaves they consumed. Results indicate that juveniles were less efficient foragers than adults: juveniles spent more time foraging relative to the time they spent feeding, and juveniles devoted a greater proportion of their day to foraging than did adults. Juvenile and adult diets were similar, in terms of gross dietary category and plant species consumed; however, juveniles consumed a diet that was lower in overall toughness than was adults0́9. Milk served as a 0́fallback0́+ food for juveniles during the dry season when food availability was limited and howlers increasingly relied on tough resources. Nonetheless, juvenile mortality rate increased: half of all juveniles died or disappeared during this time. These results support the initial hypothesis that the accelerated growth rate of folivorous primates is related to dietary toughness. Although juveniles adopted an adult-like diet early in their ontogeny, their inefficient foraging, lower toughness profile, extended reliance on maternal milk, and increased mortality rate during periods of dietary stress indicates that they struggled with the transition to dietary independence. Growing quickly throughout the juvenile period may be a life history strategy that howlers evolved to minimize mortality risks prior to reproduction. Moreover, howlers begin consuming solid food early in their ontogeny while still continuing to nurse, particularly during times of dietary stress. This early intake of solid food reduces mothers0́9 energetic costs to current offspring and enables them to rapidly shift their energy investment to future offspring.
Download or read book Primate Nutritional Ecology the Role of Food Selection Energy Intake and Nutrient Balancing in Mexican Black Howler Monkey Alouatta Pigra Foraging Strategies written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Foraging Theory written by Luc-Alain Giraldeau and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there is extensive literature in the field of behavioral ecology that attempts to explain foraging of individuals, social foraging--the ways in which animals search and compete for food in groups--has been relatively neglected. This book redresses that situation by providing both a synthesis of the existing literature and a new theory of social foraging. Giraldeau and Caraco develop models informed by game theory that offer a new framework for analysis. Social Foraging Theory contains the most comprehensive theoretical approach to its subject, coupled with quantitative methods that will underpin future work in the field. The new models and approaches that are outlined here will encourage new research directions and applications. To date, the analysis of social foraging has lacked unifying themes, clear recognition of the problems inherent in the study of social foraging, and consistent interaction between theory and experiments. This book identifies social foraging as an economic interaction between the actions of individuals and those of other foragers. This interdependence raises complex questions about the size of foraging groups, the diversity of resources used, and the propensity of group members to exploit each other or forage cooperatively. The models developed in the book will allow researchers to test their own approaches and predictions. Many years in development, Social Foraging Theory will interest researchers and graduate students in such areas as behavioral ecology, population ecology, evolutionary biology, and wildlife management.
Download or read book Zoo Animals written by Geoff Hosey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoo Animals: Behaviour, Management, and Welfare is the ideal resource for anyone needing a thorough grounding in this subject, whether as a student or as a zoo professional.
