Briefly describes the physical characteristics, habits, and behavior of monkeys.
Describes in simple terms the physical charateristics of monkeys and apes.
Conservation in the 21st Century
by T. S Stoinski, Horst D Steklis, and P. T Mehlman
From an early age, humans know a surprising amount about basic physical principles, such as gravity, force, mass, and shape. We can see this in the way that young children play, and manipulate objects around them. The same behaviour has long been observed in primates - chimpanzees have been shown to possess a remarkable ability to make and use simple tools. But what does this tell us about their inner mental state - do they therefore share the same understanding to that of a young child? Do...
Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings
by Professor Duane M Rumbaugh and David A Washburn
Sexual Selection and Reproductive Competition in Primates (Special Topics in Primatology, #3)
"Describes the characteristics, behavior, and plight of endangered apes, and what people can do to help"--Provided by publisher.
Orangutan (Welcome Books: Animals of the World )
by Edana Eckart
The Bonobos: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects)
by Takeshi Furuichi
The book is a themed, mutually referenced collection of articles from a very high-powered set of authors based on the workshop on "Current developments in non-human primate gesture research", which was held in July 2010 at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. The motivation for this book - following on from the motivation for the workshop series - was to present the state of the art in non-human primate gesture research with a special emphasis on its history, interdiscipl...
Language in Primates (Springer Series in Language and Communication, #11)
This anthology was originally planned in connection with a symposium "Language in Primates: Implications for Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, and Philosophy," at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Publication of the book would not have been possible without the support given to the Symposium by many individuals and groups. The Editors thank everyone involved for their kind and generous assistance. Specifi cally, we thank the invited speakers at the Symposium, Thomas A. Sebeok, H. Lyn Miles,...
Lemurs (Amazing Animals (Gareth Stevens)) (Amazing Animals)
by Karen Baicker
This book presents the behavior and activities of olive baboons that the author observed for eighteen months at the Gombe National Park in Tanzania. Certain aspects of the relationships among the baboons are discussed at length. These include the role of status, the function of social subgroups, and the enduring bonds they share.
It is a great honor to be asked to introduce this exciting new volume, having been heavily involved in the first comprehensive synthesis in the early 1980s. Gibbons are the most enthralling of primates. On the one hand, they are the most appealing animals, with their upright posture and body shape, facial markings, dramatic arm-swinging locomotion and suspensory postures, and devastating duets; on the other hand, the small apes are the most diverse, hence biologically valuable and informative, o...
"Fast claiming his place as one of the country's finest natural history writers, Pyle takes to the hills in search of Bigfoot in this absorbing, classily written field report. Pyle makes all the right connections. Best of all, he loves a good mystery and is smart enough, open and radical enough, to never say never." -Kirkus Reviews More than 20 years after Where Bigfoot Walks was originally published, Dr. Robert Michael Pyle, a Yale-trained ecologist and a Guggenheim fellow, returns with a bra...