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Primate Anti-Predator Strategies
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Primate Anti-Predator Strategies Paperback - 2010

by Sharon Gursky-Doyen (Editor); K. a. Nekaris (Editor)


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This volume details the different ways that nocturnal primates avoid predators. Anti-predator strategies exhibited by nocturnal prosimians include: crypsis, alarm calling, mobbing behavior, and production of toxins, group cohesion, and behavioral modification during moonlight, and vigilance, among others. Additionally, Primates and their Predators incorporates several chapters on the theoretical advances that researchers studying nocturnal primates need to make (that is, where the field needs to go given the state of predation theory). Chapters on predation theory of non-nocturnal primates are included for comparison purposes.

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Since the 1960s, primatologists have recognized the impact of predation on the evolution of morphology, the social systems and cognitive behavior of monkeys and apes, but few studies considered its impact on the prosimians - lemurs, lorises, galagos and tarsiers. This comprehensive volume, written by experts in the field, narrows this gap by highlighting the effect of predation on the order Primates in general. Theoretical approaches to understanding how primates perceive predation threat, as well as proximate and ultimate causes to address threat and attack, are considered across the primate order. Although this volume concentrates on the least known group in this theoretical area - the prosimians - contributions by researchers on numerous primate taxa across four major geographical regions make this a novel and exciting contribution to students interested in primate evolution and ecology.

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  • Title Primate Anti-Predator Strategies
  • Author Sharon Gursky-Doyen (Editor); K. a. Nekaris (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Softcover reprin
  • Pages 393
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Springer
  • Date 2010-11-23
  • ISBN 9781441941909 / 1441941908
  • Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.86 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.18 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Dewey Decimal Code 599.814
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