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Book The Sociobiology of Infant and Adult Male Baboons

Download or read book The Sociobiology of Infant and Adult Male Baboons written by David Martin Stein and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1984 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes the behavioral interactions between infant and adult male baboons. The result is the first quantitative description of infant-adult male relations for any higher primate, including humans. The idea that emerges is that infant-adult male relations are far more complex than the mere paternal caretaking or exploitation that has previously been assumed, and these relations are specific, long-term, reciprocal, and beneficial to both infants and the adult males. The book also deals with many current topics of interest, including parental investment, kidnapping, altruism, food sharing, agonistic buffering, adoption, and infanticide.

Book Infanticide and Parental Care by Male Chacma Baboons  Papio Ursinus

Download or read book Infanticide and Parental Care by Male Chacma Baboons Papio Ursinus written by Curt Daniel Busse and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sex and Friendship in Baboons

Download or read book Sex and Friendship in Baboons written by Barbara B. Smuts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who have been privileged to watch baboons long enough to know them as individuals and who have learned to interpret some of their more subtle interactions will attest that the rapid flow of baboon behavior can at times be overwhelming. In fact, some of the most sophisticated and influential observation methods for sampling vertebrate social behavior grew out of baboon studies, invented by scientists who were trying to cope with the intricacies of baboon behavior. Barbara Smuts' eloquent study of baboons reveals a new depth to their behavior and extends the theories needed to account for it.While adhering to the most scrupulous methodological strictures, the author maintains an open research strategy--respecting her subjects by approaching them with the open mind of an ethnographer and immersing herself in the complexities of baboon social life before formulating her research design, allowing her to detect and document a new level of subtlety in their behavior. At the Gilgil site, described in this book, she could stroll and sit within a few feet of her subjects. By maintaining such proximity she was able to watch and listen to intimate exchanges within the troop; she was able, in other words, to shift the baboons well along the continuum from ""subject"" to ""informant."" By doing so she has illuminated new networks of special relationships in baboons. This empirical contribution accompanies theoretical insights that not only help to explain many of the inconsistencies of previous studies but also provide the foundation for a whole new dimension in the study of primate behavior: analysis oft he dynamics of long-term, intimate relationships and their evolutionary significance.At every stage of research human observers have underestimated the baboon. These intelligent, curious, emotional, and long-lived creatures are capable of employing stratagems and forming relationships that are not easily detected by traditional research methods. In the process

Book Reproduction and Fitness in Baboons  Behavioral  Ecological  and Life History Perspectives

Download or read book Reproduction and Fitness in Baboons Behavioral Ecological and Life History Perspectives written by Larissa Swedell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-25 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together current research on the behavior, ecology, reproduction, and life history of baboons of the genus Papio, shedding light on what makes baboons successful. The book focuses on issues such as infanticide, mating strategies and investment, hybridization and genetics. The findings have broad applications to understanding the evolution of complex life history adaptations in other primates, and of humans in particular.

Book The Effects of Age  Sex  and Troop Differences on the Social Interactions of Free ranging Baboon Infants in Their First Six Months of Life

Download or read book The Effects of Age Sex and Troop Differences on the Social Interactions of Free ranging Baboon Infants in Their First Six Months of Life written by Helen Margaret Hendy and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Infanticide by Males and Its Implications

Download or read book Infanticide by Males and Its Implications written by Carel van Schaik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-02 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of impact of infanticide on social organization and reproductive behavior in primates including humans.

Book Baboon Mothers and Infants

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeanne Altmann
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2001-08-15
  • ISBN : 9780226016078
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Baboon Mothers and Infants written by Jeanne Altmann and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-08-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P. 40.

Book The Nature and Function of Social Interactions Between Infant and Adult Male Yellow Baboons  Papio Cynocephalus

Download or read book The Nature and Function of Social Interactions Between Infant and Adult Male Yellow Baboons Papio Cynocephalus written by David Martin Stein and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Primate Behavior and Sociobiology

Download or read book Primate Behavior and Sociobiology written by A.B. Chiarelli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The VIIIth International Congress of the International Prirnatological Society was held from 7 through 11 July 1980 in Florence, Italy, under the auspices of the host institution, the Istituto di Antropologia of the University of Flor~nce. More than 300 papers and abstracts were presented either at the main Congress or in 14 pre-Congress symposia the week earlier (so scheduled to avoid conflicting with either the main invited lectures or the contributed paper sessions). This volume consists of the contributed papers concerning primate behavior, with special emphasis on those social aspects that reflect on or affect primate biology. Clearly, this is one of the more important and popular subdisciplines in primatology today. We have thus restricted the subject, in agreement with the publishers, in order to ensure a successful and useful volume that is likely to be generally noticed and widely available, as these up-to-date contributions deserve. Furthermore, we have compiled this volume in a fairly new way for congress proceedings. In view of space limitations, and the need to guarantee a high-quality and sufficiently specialized book, we subjected all manuscripts to a four-level internal review process and selected only the best 23 of the 50 submissions. We favored natural-observation work over captive studies. This rejection rate of 54% exceeds that of almost all reviewed scholarly journals.

Book How Baboons Grow Up

Download or read book How Baboons Grow Up written by Education Development Center and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the physical and social growth of baboons, from infancy to adulthood.

Book Adult Male Savanna Baboon Mating Activity and Interactions with Infants

Download or read book Adult Male Savanna Baboon Mating Activity and Interactions with Infants written by John B. Bulger and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Baboons

Download or read book Baboons written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sociobiology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward O. Wilson
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 0674002350
  • Pages : 712 pages

Download or read book Sociobiology written by Edward O. Wilson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this work was first published it started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. It shows how research in human genetics and neuroscience has strengthened the case for biological understanding of human nature.

Book On Socialization in Hamadryas Baboons

Download or read book On Socialization in Hamadryas Baboons written by Jean-Jacques Abegglen and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the results of an eighteen-month field study of wild hamadryas baboons. The author attempts to interpret his findings in terms of the bonding-stage model of Hans Kummer and compares the hamadryas socialization pattern with those of other primate species, including humans.

Book Beyond Sociobiology

Download or read book Beyond Sociobiology written by John D. Baldwin and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1981 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Infanticide

    Book Details:
  • Author : Glenn Hausfater
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-12
  • ISBN : 1351512617
  • Pages : 628 pages

Download or read book Infanticide written by Glenn Hausfater and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent field studies of a variety of mammalian species reveal a surprisingly high frequency of infanticide - the killing of unweaned or otherwise maternally dependent offspring. Similarly, studies of birds, fish, amphibians, and invertebrates demonstrate egg and larval mortality in these species, a phenomenon directly analogous to infanticide in mammals. In this collection, Hausfater and Hrdy draw together work on animal and human infanticide and place these studies in a broad evolutionary and comparative perspective.Infanticide presents the theoretical background and taxonomic distribution of infanticide, infanticide in nonhuman primates, infanticide in rodents, and infanticide in humans. It examines closely sex allocation and sex ratio theory, surveys the phylogeny of mammalian interbirth intervals, and reviews data on sources of egg and larval mortality in a variety of invertebrate and lower vertebrate species. Dealing with infanticide in nonhuman primates, two chapters critically examine data on infanticide in langurs and its broader theoretical implications. By reviewing sources of infant mortality in populations of small mammals and new laboratory analyses of the causes and consequences of infanticide, this work explores such issues as the ontogeny of infanticide, proximate cues of infants and females which elicit infanticidal behavior in males, the genetical basis of infanticide, and the hormonal determinants.Hausfater and Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, through their selection of materials for this book, evaluate the frequency, causes, and function of infanticide. Historical, ethnographic, and recent data on infanticide are surveyed. "Infanticide" summarizes current research on the evolutionary origins and proximate causation of infanticide in animals and man. As such it will be indispensable reading for anthropologists and behavioral biologists as well as ecologists, psychologists, demographers, and epidemiologists.

Book Infanticide in a Troop of Chacma Baboons  Papio Ursinus

Download or read book Infanticide in a Troop of Chacma Baboons Papio Ursinus written by Erna Rae Burger and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: