Our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, are familiar
enough--bright and ornery and promiscuous. But they also kill and
eat their kin, in this case the red colobus monkey, which may say
something about primate--even hominid--evolution. This book, the
first long-term field study of a predator-prey relationship
involving two wild primates, documents a six-year investigation
into how the risk of predation molds primate society. Taking us to
Gombe National Park in Tanzania, a place made famous by Jane
Goodall's studies, the book offers a close look at how predation by
wild chimpanzees--observable in the park as nowhere else--has
influenced the behavior, ecology, and demography of a population of
red colobus monkeys.
As he explores the effects of chimpanzees' hunting, Craig
Stanford also asks why these creatures prey on the red colobus.
Because chimpanzees are often used as models of how early humans
may have lived, Stanford's findings offer insight into the possible
role of early hominids as predators, a little understood aspect of
human evolution.
The first book-length study in a newly emerging genre of
primate field study, "Chimpanzee and Red Colobus "expands our
understanding of not just these two primate societies, but also the
evolutionary ecology of predators and prey in general.
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