Download or read book The Cayo Santiago Macaques written by Richard G. Rawlins and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a broad spectrum of research on the Cayo Santiago macaques, a unique free-ranging colony of rhesus macaques in Puerto Rico. It includes thirteen scientific studies on the behavior and biology of the Cayo Santiago macaques, as well as a detailed history of the colony and a complete bibliography of over 260 scientific publications based on work at Cayo Santiago from 1938 through 1984. The chapters represent examples of both short- and long-term research conducted on the island over the past several years. Some are reviews, providing a synopsis of complex longitudinal studies of behavior, vocal communication, functional morphology, genetics, and population dynamics. Others document the results of opportunistic studies of behavior or biological surveys. The chapters cover a broad range of topics, but all share a common dependence on the detailed life history and genealogical data which make the Cayo Santiago macaque colony an important international research resource.
Download or read book Cayo Santiago Macaques written by Richard G. Rawlins and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of photographs of rhesus monkeys living on the island of Cayo Santiago in Puerto Rico since 1938. The photos span my 25 years of work with the Cayo Santiago monkeys. The book is dedicated to the monkeys, to the staff of the Caribbean Primate Research Center who care for them, and the people of Puerto Rico who have so kindly looked after the many investigators who have worked there over the years. I hope you enjoy the photos of these wonderful animals. -- Author's description from blurb.com.
Download or read book The Macaques of Cayo Santiago written by Angel Rodriguez Alvarez and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A notable monograph on the tale position and it's relation to dominance and rank among the Rhesus macaques of Cayo Santiago island of Puerto Rico. This work was the first to yield a comprenhensive information about the tale position among Macaca mulatta. Topics include; history of the Cayo Santiago macaques, social organization, dominance and rank, tale position, basically all of the major topics are addressed here. The end of the book also contains the statistical analysis with charts and graphs, and a useful bibliography.
Download or read book Bones Genetics and Behavior of Rhesus Macaques written by Qian Wang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Phillip V. Tobias The introduction of rhesus macaques to Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico in 1938, and the subsequent development of the CPRC for biomedical research, continues its long history of stimulating studies in physical anthropology. The CPRC monkey colonies, and the precise demographic data on the derived skeletal collection in the Center’s Laboratory of Primate Morphology and Genetics (LPMG), provide rare opportunities for morphological, developmental, functional, genetic, and behavioral studies across the life span of rhesus macaques as a species, and as a primate model for humans. The book grows out of a symposium Wang is organizing for the 78th annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists to be held in April 2009. This symposium will highlight recent and ongoing research in, or related to, physical anthropology, and reveal the numerous research opportunities that still exist at this unusual rhesus facility. Following an initial historical review of CPRC and its research activities, this book will emphasize recent and current researches on growth, function, genetics, pathology, aging, and behavior, and the impact of these researches on our understanding of rhesus and human morphology, development, genetics, and behavior. Fourteen researchers will present recent and current studies on morphology, genetics, and behavior, with relevance to primate and human growth, health, and evolution. The book will include not only papers presented in the symposium, but also papers from individuals who could not present their work at the meeting due to limitations in the maximum number (14) of permitted speakers.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Meeting to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Cayo Santiago Rhesus Monkey Colony written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life History Patterns of Male Rhesus Macaques on Cayo Santiago written by John David Berard and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Craniofacial Morphology of the Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaques Macaca Mulatta written by Anthony Holmes King and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Monkeys of Arashiyama written by Linda Marie Fedigan and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Monkeys of Arashiyama: Thirty-five Years of Research in Japan and the West, Linda Fedigan and Pamela Asquith reveal the diversity of research on the Arashiyama Japanese macaques, and the Japanese and Western traditions in primate studies. The essays reflect studies by primatologists with the population at Arashiyama, Kyoto, and the subgroup which fissioned from the original macaque group, transferred to Texas in 1972. It is a comprehensive examination of this major research group, highlighted by some of the new and interesting findings on primate social organization.
Download or read book Primate Social Conflict written by William A. Mason and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines conflict as a normal and recurrent feature of primate social life, emphasizing that the study of aggression and social conflict is important to understanding the basic processes that contribute to social order. The authors go well beyond the usual view which tends to equate social conflict with fights over food, mates, or social supremacy, and analyze the diverse manifestations and significance of conflict in a variety of case studies. Contributors are scientists with field and laboratory experience in anthropology, behavioral endocrinology, ethology, and psychology. Utilizing the growing body of research on life-span development in primatology, the authors offer more extensive analyses of the complexity of primate social relationships.
Download or read book Population History at the Microscale written by Darice Westphal and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being able to understand the effects of relatedness on adult cranial morphology has implications for inferring population histories, and for informing us about the influence of social behaviors on these patterns of population relatedness. Several methods have been developed to infer relatedness among human or other primate populations using metric data. This thesis uses detailed genealogical and demographic information for free-ranging rhesus macaques born over four decades on Cayo Santiago along with individually matched cranial measurements and interprets the resulting patterns in a socioecological framework. I used R-matrix methods to examine cranial shape variation among social lineages on Cayo Santiago and changes over time. Results from the lineage analysis support the male migration effect of fission and the lineal effect of fission, which increased the genetic variation between two lineages. Lineage-specific mating and random male gene flow both decreased the genetic variation among the lineages. When the lineages were combined and divided into four time periods, a strong temporal trend was observed. This temporal trend is most likely due to environmental differentiation over time and some degree of genetic drift. This thesis demonstrates how behavioral mechanisms affect genetic relationships among populations and that linear distances derived from cranial measurements can provide information about population structure and population history even at this small spatial and temporal scale.
Download or read book Locomotor Ontogeny of the Cayo Santiago Macaques written by Richard G. Rawlins and published by Richard Rawlins, Ph.D HCLD. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the functional morphology and behavioral dynamics underlying locomotor ontogeny in a free-ranging group of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) at Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico. It tests the hypothesis that developmental modifications of morphology in the shoulder gird le and forelimb of Macaca mulatta are associated with changes in the frequencies of locomotor and postural behavior, and it demonstrates systematic study of the morphological and behavioral development of primates can be used to assess the validity of predicting habitual locomotor pat terns from anatomical evidence.Eight osteometric features of the scapula, clavicle and humerus, which reflect myological ada ptations to locomotor function, are statistically combined through discriminant function analysis and indicate differential modification of shoulder gird le locomotor morphology occurs in the Cayo Santiago population with age and by sex. Hypothetical shifts in positional behavior, derived from analysis of the skeletal data, are checked against actual behavioral frequencies observed in a free-ranging troop of macaques over a period of 13 months. The effects of seasonal changes in rainfall and flora, the annual reproductive cycle and an animal's sex, dominance rank, and genealogical affiliation are also considered as additional factors that can pattern frequencies of positional behavior.
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 Costs of Reproduction Among Rhesus Macaque Females on Cayo Santiago written by Christy L. Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High allostatic load, characterized by hyperactivation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and the immune system, can make adult mammalian females more susceptible to disease and mortality, particularly during periods of gestation and lactation. Additionally, poor maternal condition or increased maternal investment may affect allostatic load. Long-term demographic records and short-term records on health and behavior were analyzed to examine allostatic load and the costs of reproduction in free-ranging rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) on Cayo Santiago. Chapter 2 demonstrates that breeding is seasonal and may be affected by climatic factors and examines how female and male mortality rates in this population are affected by time of year. In Chapter 3, the impacts of female age, reproductive state, social rank and body composition on plasma cortisol levels are explored. In Chapter 4, short-term and long-term records collected on the Cayo Santiago population are used to characterize female senescence in this population and to test whether female age affects intensity of investment in infants and offspring fitness and survival. Chapter 5 explores whether HPA axis activity and immune function are affected by female age, reproductive state, social rank and body condition, whether inter-individual differences in glucocorticoid and cytokine levels are stable over time, and whether there are relationships between glucocorticoid and cytokine levels. Reproductive state and social rank are found to influence cortisol levels in response to stress, and for females there are significant mortality costs associated with the birth season. The data also reflect that females are not all equally equipped to handle the demands of frequent reproduction since allostatic load is chronically elevated for some individuals, as indicated by levels of glucocorticoids or cytokines that remain high from year to year and across pregnancy and lactation. Furthermore, the data support the senescence and terminal investment hypotheses, but though age-associated increases in maternal investment were observed, increased maternal investment did not improve infant survival for mothers in their late teens and early twenties. Although wild rhesus macaques tend to have shorter lifespans than those observed on Cayo Santiago, it is likely that the costs associated with reproduction that have been detected in the Cayo Santiago population would also be observed, perhaps to an even greater extent, in wild primate populations. Disease as well as psychosocial stressors associated with fear of predation and limited resources are likely to increase allostatic load regardless of reproductive state, but are expected to be particularly burdensome among reproductively active females.
Download or read book Behavior and Socioendocrinology of Adult Male Rhesus Macaques of Cayo Santiago written by Mariya Rakhovskaya and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social Development of Juvenile Rhesus Macaques Macaca Mulatta written by Nichelle L. Cobb and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Macachiavellian Intelligence written by Dario Maestripieri and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judged by population size and distribution, homo sapiens are clearly the most successful primates. A close second, however, would be rhesus macaques, who have adapted to—and thrived in—such diverse environments as mountain forests, dry grasslands, and urban sprawl. Scientists have spent countless hours studying these opportunistic monkeys, but rhesus macaques have long been overshadowed in the public eye by the great apes, who, because of their greater intelligence, are naturally assumed to have more to teach us, both about other primates and about humans as well. Dario Maestripieri thinks it is high time we shelve that misperception, and with Macachiavellian Intelligence he gives rhesus macaques their rightful turn in the spotlight. The product of more than twenty years studying these fascinating creatures, Macachiavellian Intelligence caricatures a society that is as much human as monkey, with hierarchies and power struggles that would impress Machiavelli himself. High-status macaques, for instance, maintain their rank through deft uses of violence and manipulation, while altruism is almost unknown and relationships are perpetually subject to the cruel laws of the market. Throughout this eye-opening account, Maestripieri weds his thorough knowledge of macaque behavior to his abiding fascination with human society and motivations. The result is a book unlike any other, one that draws on economics as much as evolutionary biology, politics as much as primatology. Rife with unexpected connections and peppered with fascinating anecdotes, Macachiavellian Intelligence has as much to teach us about humans as it does about macaques, presenting a wry, rational, and wholly surprising view of our humanity as seen through the monkey in the mirror.
Download or read book A Longitudinal Study of Behavioral Interactions Between Adult Male and Infant Rhesus Monkeys Macaca Mulatta written by William Kenneth Redican and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
