Primate Responses to Environmental Change
Published in November 1990
Book
Hardback
430 pages
978-0-412-29940-7 (ISBN)
Description
Primates are very responsive to environmental change, although the raction and ability to adapt varies from species to species. These differences reflect their life strategies and influence their social and reproductive fitness. Their responsiveness to changes are of intrinsic interest not only to scientists who study animal behaviour but also has a much wider significance as pressure mounts on natural habitats. Additionally, there is growing concern about the well-being of primates held in the artificial environments created by human beings for captive non-human primates. This book brings together a wide range of experts who review the key issues, supplemented by case studies where research has highlighted the problems and suggested possible improvements in the treatment of these animals.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
100 illustrations, index
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
863 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-412-29940-7 (9780412299407)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Book
10/2012
Springer
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Content
Part 1 General perspectives: species differences in tolerance to environmental change; adaptations to environmental change - an evolutionary perspective; responsiveness to change - interrelationship among parameters; the social control of fertility; individual differences. part 2 Environmental change in nature: forest disturbance and Amazonian primates; provisioning of barbary macaques in Gibraltar; non-human primates as pests; rehabilitation of captive chimpanzees; responses of wild chimpanzees and gorillas to the arrival of primatologists - behaviour observed during habituation; primate conservation and wildlife management. part 3 Environmental change in capacity: stimulation of natural patterns of behavioural studies with golden lio tamarinsand gorillas; environmental challenges in groups of capuchins; environmental enrichment for single housed common marmosets; responses to novel social stimuli in callitrichid monkeys - a comparative perspective; reproductive consequences of changing social status in female common marmosets; behavioural and physiological indices of social relationships - comparative studies of new world monkeys; stress and distress in response to change; criteria for provision of captive environments.