Primate Conservation Biology

Author: Guy Cowlishaw
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022682117X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 511

Book Description
From the snub-nosed monkeys of China to the mountain gorillas of central Africa, our closest nonhuman relatives are in critical danger worldwide. A recent report, for example, warns that nearly 20 percent of the world's primates may go extinct within the next ten or twenty years. In this book Guy Cowlishaw and Robin Dunbar integrate cutting-edge theoretical advances with practical management priorities to give scientists and policymakers the tools they need to help keep these species from disappearing forever. Primate Conservation Biology begins with detailed overviews of the diversity, life history, ecology, and behavior of primates and the ways these factors influence primate abundance and distribution. Cowlishaw and Dunbar then discuss the factors that put primates at the greatest risk of extinction, especially habitat disturbance and hunting. The remaining chapters present a comprehensive review of conservation strategies and management practices, highlighting the key issues that must be addressed to protect primates for the future.

An Introduction to Primate Conservation

Author: Serge A. Wich
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198703384
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art synthesis of research principles and applied management practices for primate conservation.

Ethnoprimatology

Author: Michel T. Waller
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319304690
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421

Book Description
The list of challenges facing nonhuman primates in the 21st century is a long one. The expansion of palm oil plantations to feed a growing consumer class is eating away at ape and monkey habitats in Southeast Asia and Central Africa. Lemurs are hunted for food in the poorest parts of Madagascar while monkeys are used as medicine in Brazil. Traditional cultural beliefs are maintaining demand for animal body parts in West African markets while viral YouTube videos of “cute” and “cuddly” lorises have increased their market value as pets and endangered their populations. These and other issues are addressed in this book by leading researchers in the field of ethnoprimatology, the study of human/nonhuman primate interactions that combines traditional primatological methodologies with cultural anthropology in an effort to better understand the nuances of our economic, ritualistic, and ecologic relationships.

Primate Ecology and Conservation

Author: Eleanor Sterling
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199659443
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 442

Book Description
This practical volume brings together a group of distinguished primate researchers to synthesise field, laboratory, and conservation management techniques for primate ecology and conservation.

Primates in Flooded Habitats

Author: Katarzyna Nowak
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107134315
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Book Description
A ground breaking study of primates that live in flooded habitats around the world.

Primate Behavioral Ecology

Author: Karen B. Strier
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317345207
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 409

Book Description
Primate Behavioral Ecology, described as “an engaging, cutting-edge exposition,” incorporates exciting new discoveries and the most up-to-date approaches in its introduction to the field and its applications of behavioral ecology to primate conservation. This unique, comprehensive, single-authored text integrates the basics of evolutionary, ecological, and demographic perspectives with contemporary noninvasive molecular and hormonal techniques to understand how different primates behave and the significance of these insights for primate conservation. Examples are drawn from the “classic” primate field studies and more recent studies on previously neglected species from across the primate order, illustrating the vast behavioral variation that we now know exists and the gaps in our knowledge that future studies will fill.

Primate Conservation Biology

Author: Guy Cowlishaw
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
ISBN: 9780412713408
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Primate conservation is an important topic since primates are key players in ecosystems. Moreover, they are our closest relatives. Consequently, our understanding of their ability to survive and resist extinction may well have implications for the future of human life on earth.

Primate Research and Conservation in the Anthropocene

Author: Alison M. Behie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110715748X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 313

Book Description
Combining personal stories of motivation with new research this book offers a holistic picture of primate conservation in the Anthropocene.

Primate Conservation

Author: Prince Rainer III
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0323143601
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 677

Book Description
Primate Conservation provides a comprehensive discussion of the conservation of many species of nonhuman primates. The problems of conservation are discussed by distinguished scientists who are experts in their knowledge of the animals they write about and who have firsthand knowledge of the problems of conserving them. Animals ranging from Galago to the Gorilla have been selected to serve as examples of the types of problems that conservationists face. The book begins by discussing the ecology of two species of galagine in South Africa. It covers factors such as their distribution, habitat, population densities, activity patterns, feeding, group structure, and reproduction. This is followed by separate chapters on the conservation of the following: aye-aye; the lion tamarins of Brazil; the Peruvian yellow-tailed woolly monkey; the toque macaque of Sri Lanka; rare lion-tailed monkey of South India; rhesus monkeys in Northern India; the gelada baboons; the hanuman langur and douc langur; red ouakaris; black colobus monkeys; lesser apes; and eastern gorillas.

Mahale Chimpanzees

Author: Michio Nakamura
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107052319
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 797

Book Description
A major contribution to great-ape research, covering every aspect of the Mahale Mountain Chimpanzee Project to offer new, unique insights.