Table of Contents: Preface
Chapter 1. Perspectives in Primate Bioacoustics, pp.1-28
(Bezerra B.M., Souto A.S., Jones G., University of Bristol, School of Biological Sciences, United Kingdom, and others)
Chapter 2. The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis in Nonhuman Primates: Circadian Rhythms of Stress-Responsiveness and Aging, pp.29-52
(Goncharova N.D., Institute of Medical Primatology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Sochi, Russia)
Chapter 3. Why Apes Point: Pointing Gestures in Spontaneous Conversation of Language-Competent Pan/Homo Bonobos, pp.53-74
(Janni Pedersen, Pär Segerdahl, William M. Fields, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, Department of Anthropology and Department of Philosophy, and others)
Chapter 4. Using Sexual Dimorphism and Development to Reconstruct Mating Systems in Ancient Primates, pp.75-94
(Susan Cachel, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J)
Chapter 5. How Latent Solution Experiments can help to Study Differences between Human Culture and Primate Traditions, pp.95-112
(Claudio Tennie, Daniela Hedwig, Department of Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)
Chapter 6. The Tendency to Make Man an Exception, pp.113-128
(Niccolo Caldararo, Dept. of Anthropology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA)
Chapter 7. Studying Social Development and Cognitive Abilities in Gibbons (Hylobates spp): Methods and Applications, pp.129-152
(Susan M. Cheyne, Orang-utan Tropical Peatland and Conservation Project, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
Chapter 8. Comparing Methods for Assessing Learning and Cognition in Primates, pp.153-170
(Michael J. Beran, Theodore A. Evans, David A. Washburn, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia)
Chapter 9. Patterns of Daily Movement, Activities and Diet in Woolly Monkeys (Genus Lagothrix): A Comparison between Sites and Methodologies, pp.171-186
(González M., Stevenson P. R., Centro de Investigaciones Ecológicas La Macarena, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia)
Chapter 10. “How Close Should We Get” – Researchers’ Role in Preventing the Anthropozoonotic Outbreaks in Groups of Free Ranging Chimpanzees and Gorillas, pp.187-194
(Magdalena Lukasik-Braum, Regional Field Veterinarian, Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project, Rwanda)
Index, pp.195-207 |