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Coordination in Human and Primate Groups presents one of the first
collections of the different methods and approaches used to assess
coordination processes in groups. Written by psychologists and
primatologists, the book represents a broad range of coordination
research fields such as social psychology, work and organizational
psychology, medicine, primatology, and behavioral ecology. It is
designed for researchers and practitioners interested in
understanding the behavioral aspects of group coordination.
Part I Introduction.- The Values and Challenges of Long-Term
Field Studies.- Part II Madagascar.- Berenty Reserve, Madagascar: A
Long Time in a Small Space.- Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve:
Long-Term Research on Lemurs in Southwestern Madagascar.- Long-Term
Lemur Research at Centre Valbio, Ranomafana National Park,
Madagascar.- A 15-Year Perspective on the Social Organization and
Life History of Sifaka in Kirindy Forest.- Part III America.- The
Northern Muriqui ("Brachyteles hypoxanthus"): Lessons on Behavioral
Plasticity and Population Dynamics from a Critically Endangered
Species.- The Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project: Two Decades of
Research on "Cebus capucinus.- "Tracking Neotropical Monkeys in
Santa Rosa: Lessons from a Regenerating Costa Rican Dry Forest.-
The Group Life Cycle and Demography of Brown Capuchin Monkeys
("Cebus" "apella"] "nigritus") in Iguazu National Park, Argentina.-
Part IV Asia.- Social Organization and Male Residence Pattern in
Phayre's Leaf Monkeys.- White-Handed Gibbons of Khao Yai: Social
Flexibility, Complex Reproductive Strategies, and a Slow Life
History.- V Africa.- The Amboseli Baboon Research Project: Forty
Years of Continuity and Change.- The Thirty Year Blues: What We
Know and Don t Know About Life History, Group Size, and Group
Fission of Blue Monkeys in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya.- Long-Term
Research on Chimpanzee Behavioral Ecology in Kibale National Park,
Uganda.- Long-Term Field Studies of Chimpanzees at Mahale Mountains
National Park, Tanzania.- Long-Term Studies of the Chimpanzees of
Gombe National Park, Tanzania.- Long-Term Research on Grauer s
Gorillas in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, DRC: Life History, Foraging
Strategies, and Ecological Differentiation from Sympatric
Chimpanzees.- Long-Term Studies on Wild Bonobos at Wamba, Luo
Scientific Reserve, D.R. Congo: Towards the Understanding of Female
Life History in a Male-Philopatric Species. VI Summary.- A
Comparative Perspective on Long-term Field Studies."
Communication and cognition.- Visual communication: evolution,
ecology, and functional mechanisms.- Vocal communication in social
groups.- Kin recognition: an overview of conceptual issues,
mechanisms and evolutionary theory.- Honeybee cognition.-
Individual performance in complex social systems: the greylag goose
example.- Conflict and cooperation.- Conflict and conflict
resolution in social insects.- Social insects, major evolutionary
transitions and multilevel selection.- Cooperation between
unrelated individuals - a game theoretic approach.- Group
decision-making in animal societies.- Parental care: adjustments to
conflict and cooperation.- Sex and reproduction.- The quantitative
study of sexual and natural selection in the wild and in the
laboratory.- Mate choice and reproductive conflict in simultaneous
hermaphrodites.- Extra-pair behaviour.- Extreme polyandry in social
Hymenoptera: evolutionary causes and consequences for colony
organisation.- Monogynous mating strategies in spiders.- Mating
systems, social behaviour and hormones.- Behavioural variation.-
The social modulation of behavioural development.- Alternative
reproductive tactics and life history phenotypes.- Animal
personality and behavioural syndromes.- Social learning and culture
in animals.- Levels and mechanisms of behavioural variability.
Coordination in Human and Primate Groups presents one of the first
collections of the different approaches and methods used to assess
coordination processes in groups. Written by psychologists and
primatologists, the book represents a broad range of coordination
research fields such as social psychology, work and organizational
psychology, medicine, primatology, and behavioural ecology. It is
designed for researchers and practitioners interested in
understanding the behavioural aspects of group coordination.
Part I Introduction.- The Values and Challenges of Long-Term
Field Studies.- Part II Madagascar.- Berenty Reserve, Madagascar: A
Long Time in a Small Space.- Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve:
Long-Term Research on Lemurs in Southwestern Madagascar.- Long-Term
Lemur Research at Centre Valbio, Ranomafana National Park,
Madagascar.- A 15-Year Perspective on the Social Organization and
Life History of Sifaka in Kirindy Forest.- Part III America.- The
Northern Muriqui ("Brachyteles hypoxanthus"): Lessons on Behavioral
Plasticity and Population Dynamics from a Critically Endangered
Species.- The Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project: Two Decades of
Research on "Cebus capucinus.- "Tracking Neotropical Monkeys in
Santa Rosa: Lessons from a Regenerating Costa Rican Dry Forest.-
The Group Life Cycle and Demography of Brown Capuchin Monkeys
("Cebus" "apella"] "nigritus") in Iguazu National Park, Argentina.-
Part IV Asia.- Social Organization and Male Residence Pattern in
Phayre's Leaf Monkeys.- White-Handed Gibbons of Khao Yai: Social
Flexibility, Complex Reproductive Strategies, and a Slow Life
History.- V Africa.- The Amboseli Baboon Research Project: Forty
Years of Continuity and Change.- The Thirty Year Blues: What We
Know and Don t Know About Life History, Group Size, and Group
Fission of Blue Monkeys in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya.- Long-Term
Research on Chimpanzee Behavioral Ecology in Kibale National Park,
Uganda.- Long-Term Field Studies of Chimpanzees at Mahale Mountains
National Park, Tanzania.- Long-Term Studies of the Chimpanzees of
Gombe National Park, Tanzania.- Long-Term Research on Grauer s
Gorillas in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, DRC: Life History, Foraging
Strategies, and Ecological Differentiation from Sympatric
Chimpanzees.- Long-Term Studies on Wild Bonobos at Wamba, Luo
Scientific Reserve, D.R. Congo: Towards the Understanding of Female
Life History in a Male-Philopatric Species. VI Summary.- A
Comparative Perspective on Long-term Field Studies."
Fressen und Nicht-gefressen-Werden, Paarungspartner finden und
Junge erfolgreich aufziehen - diese grundlegenden Prinzipien der
Verhaltensbiologie werden in dem Lehrbuch ubersichtlich und anhand
aktueller Beispiele dargestellt. Neben dem Thema Verhaltensbiologie
als integrative Disziplin liegt der inhaltliche Schwerpunkt bei
Fragen der Evolution des Verhaltens, der Anpassung, der
Verhaltensoekologie, Soziobiologie und Evolutionsbiologie. Die
Neuauflage wurde um einige eindrucksvolle Fotos erganzt, das
Kapitel zum Sozialverhalten erweitert.
We know a great deal about roles the environment plays in shaping
survival, reproductive success, and even social systems among
primates. But how do primate life histories affect social systems
and vice versa? Do baboons' patterns of growth, for example, help
to structure their societies? Does fission-fusion sociality
interact with predator pressure to influence the timing of
maturation in chimpanzees?
Exploring these issues and many others, the contributors to
"Primate Life Histories and Socioecology" provide the first
systematic attempt to understand relationships among primate life
histories, ecology, and social behavior conjointly. Topics covered
include how primate life histories interact with rates of
evolution, predator pressure, and diverse social structures; how
the slow maturation of primates affects the behavior of both young
and adult caregivers; and reciprocal relationships between large
brains and increased social and behavioral complexity. The first
collection of its kind, this book will interest a wide range of
researchers, from anthropologists and evolutionary biologists to
psychologists and ecologists.
Contributors:
Paul-Michael Agapow, Susan C. Alberts, Jeanne Altmann, Robert A.
Barton, Nicholas G. Blurton Jones, Robert O. Deaner, Robin I. M.
Dunbar, Jorg U. Ganzhorn, Laurie R. Godfrey, Kristen Hawkes, Nick
J. B. Isaac, Charles H. Janson, Kate E. Jones, William L. Jungers,
Peter M. Kappeler, Susanne Klaus, Phyllis C. Lee, Steven R. Leigh,
Robert D. Martin, James F. O'Connell, Sylvia Ortmann, Michael E.
Pereira, Andy Purvis, Caroline Ross, Karen E. Samonds, Jutta
Schmid, Stephen C. Stearns, Michael R. Sutherland, Carel P. van
Schaik, and Andrea J. Webster.
Sexual Selection in Primates provides an up-to-date account of all
aspects of sexual selection in primates, combining theoretical
insights, comprehensive reviews of the primate literature and
comparative perspectives from relevant work on other mammals, birds
and humans. Topics include sex roles, sexual dimorphism in weapons,
ornaments and armaments, sex ratios, sex differences in behaviour
and development, mate choice, sexual conflict, sex-specific life
history strategies, sperm competition and infanticide. The outcome
of the evolutionary struggle between the sexes, the flexibility of
roles and the leverage of females are discussed and emphasised
throughout. Sexual Selection in Primates is aimed at graduates and
researchers in primatology, animal behaviour, evolutionary biology
and comparative psychology.
The size and composition of primate groups varies tremendously across species, within species, and within groups over time. Written by leading authorities, this book focuses on the causes and consequences of variation in the number of males per group. This variation lies at the heart of understanding adaptive variation among primate social systems. The volume also provides an extensive overview of variation in group composition across all major primate taxa using up-to-date reviews, case studies, evolutionary theory, and theoretical models. A comparative review of birds and selected other mammals is included. This text will become a favorite with all those interested in the behavioral ecology of primates.
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