Odd-nosed Monkeys: Recent Advances in the Study of the Forgotten Colobines

Introduction.- Part I: Evolution, comparative morphology, and adaptation.- The Odd-nosed monkeys in the context of cercopithecoid evolution.- Comparative cranial morphology of the douc langurs.- The incisors of Asian colobines.- Mechanical and chemical properties of foods ingested by the Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus) at Khau Ca, Ha Giang Province, Vietnam.- Taxonomy and evolutionary history of odd-nosed monkeys.- Phylogeography and population structure of the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey inferred from mDNA and microsatellite loci.- Part II: Behavior, ecology, and population biology.- Social organization of the black-shanked douc (Pygathrix nigripes) in two national parks in southern Vietnam.- Behavioral development and infant care in captive red-shanked doucs.- Feeding ecology of the Tonkin snub-nosed monkey.- Forest structure preferences for the Tonkin snub-nosed monkey in Khau Ca, Vietnam.- Features of the social system of Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti).- Ranging and feeding ecology of Guizhou snub-nosed monkeys.- Vocal repertoire of Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys in Qinling, China.- Aspects of the social structure and social relationships of Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys.- Behavioral ecology of proboscis monkeys in a riverine forest in Sabah, Malaysia.- Behavior of simakobu monkeys.- Part III: Conservation and management.- Conservation or development: the red-shanked douc langurs of Son Tra Nature Reserve, Vietnam.- Conservation of the critically endangered Tonkin snub-nosed monkey.- Captive breeding of Douc langur species at EPRC Cuc Phuong.- Conservation status of the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey.- Husbandry and research of Asian colobines at the Singapore Zoological Gardens.- Concluding remarks and future directions for odd-nosed monkey research and conservation.