Search results for “[Subject: animals-primates]”

• Author(s): Sindhu Radhakrishna • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverMost successful among the non-human primates in terms of geographical distribution and adaptability to ecologic...

• Author(s): Hideki Endo • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Anatomy & PhysiologyThis book presents selected works of contemporary evolutionary morphologists and includes such topics as broad scale rec...

• Author(s): Michel T. Waller • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyFrom the Back CoverThe list of challenges facing nonhuman primates in the 21st century is a long one. The expansion of palm oil plan...

• Author(s): Sharon Gursky-Doyen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverEdited by two internationally renowned primatologists, this new text synthesizes current research on the primates of Indonesia...

• Author(s): Peter M. Kappeler • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiochemistryFrom the Back CoverSome primate field studies have been on-going for decades, covering significant portions of individual life...

• Author(s): W. Patrick Luckett • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - GeneralTree shrews are small-bodied, scansorial, squirrel-like mammals that occupy a wide range of arboreal, semi-arboreal, and...

• Author(s): Sharon Gursky-Doyen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverEdited by two internationally renowned primatologists, this new text synthesizes current research on the primat...

• Author(s): Nanda B. Grow • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralFrom the Back CoverPrimates are remarkably adaptable animals that have gone through multiple radiations a...

• Author(s): Mary E. Glenn • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - PrimatologyIt has been twelve years since a work relating to the long-tailed African monkeys known as the guenons has been published...

• Author(s): Lauren M. Robinson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Veterinary Medicine - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis volume reviews the broad topic of welfare in nonhuman primates under human care. Chapters detail the...

• Author(s): Alexander Weiss • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyFrom the Back CoverThe result of a symposium hosted by the American Society of Primatologists, this volume attests to the huge stride...

• Author(s): Jeannette P. Ward • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: NeuroscienceThis book arrays recent research on the neural and behavioral lateralization of the brain relying heavily on animal modes. The authors employ ...

• Author(s): H. D. Rijksen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - PrimatologyIn the 1960s, it was believed that no more than about 4,000 orang-utans remained in the wild. Consequently, IUCN - The Wo...

• Author(s): Thomas C. Jones • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: MicrobiologyThis volume, as the others in this set, provides an internationally useful nomenclature valuable for recording and evaluating pathologic data pr...

• Author(s): Kurt Benirschke • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Animals - WildlifeThis conference represents the first time in my life when I felt it was a misfor- tune, rather than a major cause of my happiness, that I ...

• Author(s): Wolf Krebs • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - PrimatologyContents Introduction .......................................... . 1 The Primate Eye ...................................... ...

• Author(s): Takeshi Furuichi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionFrom the Back CoverWhy do females in male-philopatric species seem to show larger variation in their life history strategies than ...

• Author(s): Julia E. Fa • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralThe Barbary macaque (all too often mistakenly called an ape) was first brought to the attention of the Cons...

• Author(s): Michael A. Huffman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiochemistryThis book introduces to the reader unfamiliar with primatology in Japan three research projects representative of the unique ...

• Author(s): Nanda B. Grow • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralFrom the Back CoverPrimates are remarkably adaptable animals that have gone through multiple radiations a...

• Author(s): Sharon Gursky-Doyen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverSince the 1960s, primatologists have recognized the impact of predation on the evolution of morphology, the social systems and...

• Author(s): A. B. Chiarelli • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - GeneralThe VIIIth International Congress of the International Prirnatological Society was held from 7 through 11 July 1980 in Flor...

• Author(s): Thomas C. Jones • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: MicrobiologyThe International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) was estab- lished in 1978 to stimulate and support scientific research and educational programs...

• Author(s): Maria Botero • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Animal & Comparative PsychologyThis book aims to advance our understanding of the caregiver-infant interaction in primates and its effect on the developmen...

• Author(s): Sharon Gursky-Doyen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverSince the 1960s, primatologists have recognized the impact of predation on the evolution of morphology, the social systems and...

• Author(s): Susan Lappan | Danielle Whittaker • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - PrimatologyIt is a great honor to be asked to introduce this exciting new volume, having been heavily involved i...

• Author(s): Paul A. Garber • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: PhysiologyFrom the Back CoverSouth America is home to perhaps the largest and most diversified radiation (some 200 species) of nonhuman primates on Earth. Gi...

• Author(s): Tetsuro Matsuzawa • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - GeneralBiologists and anthropologists in Japan have played a crucial role in the development of primatology as a scientific disc...

• Author(s): G. C. Ruppenthal • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Agriculture - Animal HusbandryThe Infant Primate Research Laboratory at the University of Washington was conceived in 1970 as a small research Wlit primari...

• Author(s): Gene P. Sackett • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Veterinary Medicine - GeneralAuthored by are some of today's most renowned primatologists, psychologists and immunologists, this volume describes how and wh...

• Author(s): Tetsuro Matsuzawa • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - PrimatologyBiologists and anthropologists in Japan have played a crucial role in the development of primatology as a scientific ...

• Author(s): Susan M. Ford • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThe Smallest Anthropoids: The Marmoset/Callimico Radiation represents a comprehensive examination of the callimico/ma...

• Author(s): Alexander Weiss • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyFrom the Back CoverThe result of a symposium hosted by the American Society of Primatologists, this volume attests to the huge stride...

• Author(s): Ian Tattersall • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - PrimatologyThe volume of studies on prosimian primates has, until recently, tended to lag well behind that of studies on the higher...

• Author(s): Paul A. Garber • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: PhysiologyFrom the Back CoverSouth America is home to perhaps the largest and most diversified radiation (some 200 species) of nonhuman primates on Earth. Gi...

• Author(s): James R. Anderson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - Ethology (Animal Behavior)From the Back CoverThis book presents an overview of selected topics in comparative cognition, which i...