Primates In The Real World
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Primates in the Real World
Author | : Georgina M. Montgomery |
Publsiher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2015-09-21 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780813937403 |
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The opening of this vital new book centers on a series of graves memorializing baboons killed near Amboseli National Park in Kenya in 2009--a stark image that emphasizes both the close emotional connection between primate researchers and their subjects and the intensely human qualities of the animals. Primates in the Real World goes on to trace primatology’s shift from short-term expeditions designed to help overcome centuries-old myths to the field’s arrival as a recognized science sustained by a complex web of international collaborations. Considering a series of pivotal episodes spanning the twentieth century, Georgina Montgomery shows how individuals both within and outside of the scientific community gradually liberated themselves from primate folklore to create primate science. Achieved largely through a movement from the lab to the field as the primary site of observation, this development reflected an urgent and ultimately extremely productive reassessment of what constitutes "natural" behavior for primates. An important contribution to the history of science and of women’s roles in science, as well as to animal studies and the exploration of the animal-human boundary, Montgomery’s engagingly written narrative provides the general reader with the most accessible overview to date of this enduringly fascinating field of study.
Primates in the Real World
Author | : Georgina Mary Montgomery |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Primates |
ISBN | : MINN:31951P00861307S |
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Primates of the World
Author | : Jean-Jacques Petter,François Desbordes |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2013-08-25 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780691156958 |
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Discusses primate evolution, behavior, and classification, and provides detailed information and illustrations, arranged geographically, on every family and nearly three hundred species.
New World Monkeys
Author | : Alfred L. Rosenberger |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780691189512 |
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A comprehensive account of the origins, evolution, and behavior of South and Central American primates New World Monkeys brings to life the beauty of evolution and biodiversity in action among South and Central American primates, who are now at risk. These tree-dwelling rainforest inhabitants display an unparalleled variety in size, shape, hands, feet, tails, brains, locomotion, feeding, social systems, forms of communication, and mating strategies. Primatologist Alfred Rosenberger, one of the foremost experts on these mammals, explains their fascinating adaptations and how they came about. New World Monkeys provides a dramatic picture of the sixteen living genera of New World monkeys and a fossil record that shows that their ancestors have lived in the same ecological niches for up to 20 million years—only to now find themselves imperiled by the extinction crisis. Rosenberger also challenges the argument that these primates originally came to South America from Africa by floating across the Atlantic on a raft of vegetation some 45 million years ago. He explains that they are more likely to have crossed via a land bridge that once connected Western Europe and Canada at a time when many tropical mammals transferred between the northern continents. Based on the most current findings, New World Monkeys offers the first synthesis of decades of fieldwork and laboratory and museum research conducted by hundreds of scientists.
How Monkeys See the World
Author | : Dorothy L. Cheney,Robert M. Seyfarth |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2018-11-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780226218526 |
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Cheney and Seyfarth enter the minds of vervet monkeys and other primates to explore the nature of primate intelligence and the evolution of cognition. "This reviewer had to be restrained from stopping people in the street to urge them to read it: They would learn something of the way science is done, something about how monkeys see their world, and something about themselves, the mental models they inhabit."—Roger Lewin, Washington Post Book World "A fascinating intellectual odyssey and a superb summary of where science stands."—Geoffrey Cowley, Newsweek "A once-in-the-history-of-science enterprise."—Duane M. Rumbaugh, Quarterly Review of Biology
Apes and Monkeys Their Life and Language
Author | : R. L. Garner |
Publsiher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2022-08-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : EAN:4064066421830 |
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"Apes and Monkeys: Their Life and Language" by R. L. Garner. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes
Author | : Solly Zuckerman,Solly Baron Zuckerman |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0415209803 |
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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Primates in History Myth Art and Science
Author | : Cecilia Veracini,Bernard Wood |
Publsiher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 794 |
Release | : 2024-05-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781351981873 |
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Non-human primates (hereafter just primates) play a special role in human societies, especially in regions where modern humans and primates co-exist. Primates feature in myths and legends and in traditional indigenous knowledge. Explorers observed them in the wild and brought them, at great cost, to Europe. There they were valued as pets and for display, their images featured in art and architecture, and where they were literally teased apart by scientists. The international team of contributors to this book draws these different perspectives together to show how primates helped humans better understand their own place in nature. The book will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students as well scholars in disciplines ranging from anthropology to art history. Key features: Includes contributions from an international team of historians and natural scientists Integrates various perspectives and perceptions of non-human primates across time and place Summarizes the place of non-human primates in science, art and culture Includes rare early illustrations