Socioecology and Psychology of Primates / / Russell H. Tuttle.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• VerfasserIn: Tuttle, Russell H.,
• MitwirkendeR: BECK, BENJAMIN Β.,; BELL, C. L.,; BOESE, GILBERT K.,; BROWN, JOSEPHINE V.,; DAVENPORT, RICHARD K.,; DITTUS, WOLFGANG P. J.,; DURHAM, NORRIS M.,; FOUTS, ROGER S.,; GALLUP, GORDON G.,; GILL, TIMOTHY V.,; GLANDER, KENNETH E.,; GLASERSFELD, E. C. VON,; HARDING, ROBERT S. O.,; HLADIK, C. M.,; KLEIN, DOROTHY J.,; KLEIN, LEWIS L.,; LOY, JAMES,; MECH, L. DAVID,; OATES, JOHN F.,; PETERS, ROGER,; PISANI, PIER,; ROGERS, CHARLES M.,; RUMBAUGH, DUANE M.,; SAAYMAN, GRAHAM S.,; STRUHSAKER, THOMAS T.,; SUZUKI, AKIRA,; WARNER, HAROLD,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1975
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (474 p.) :; Num. fig. and tabs. and plates

Table of Contents

I-XVI -- SECTION ONE: Ecology, Diet, and Social Patterning in Monkeys and Apes -- Ecology, Diet, and Social Patterning in Old and New World Primates -- Habitat Description and Resource Utilization: A Preliminary Report on Mantled Howling Monkey Ecology -- Social and Ecological Contrasts Between Four Taxa of Neotropical Primates -- Some Ecological, Distributional, and Group Behavioral Features of Atelinae in Southern Peru: With Comments on Interspecific Relations -- Comparison of the Behavior and Ecology of Red Colobus and Black-and-white Colobus Monkeys in Uganda: A Summary -- Population Dynamics of the Toque Monkey, Macaca sinica -- The Descent of Dominance in Macaca: Insights into the Structure of Human Societies -- The Influence of Hormonal and Ecological Factors upon Sexual Behavior and Social Organization in Old World Primates -- Social Behavior and Ecological Considerations of West African Baboons (Papio papio) -- Discussion -- SECTION TWO: Meat-Eating and Behavioral Adaptations to Hunting -- Meat-Eating and Hunting in Baboons -- The Origin of Hominid Hunting: A Primatological Perspective -- Behavioral and Intellectual Adaptations of Selected Mammalian Predators to the Problem of Hunting Large Animals -- Discussion -- SECTION THREE: Self-Awareness and Capacities for Perceptual Integration Across Sensory Modalities, Learning, Symbolizing, and Intelligence -- Towards an Operational Definition of Self-Awareness -- Capacities of Nonhuman Primates for Perceptual Integration Across Sensory Modalities -- The Learning and Symbolizing Capacities of Apes and Monkeys -- Discussion -- Plates -- SECTION FOUR: Language Skills of Apes and the Evolution of Human Language -- Capacities for Language in Great Apes -- The Language Skills of a Young Chimpanzee in a Computer-Controlled Training Situation -- Discussion -- SECTION FIVE: Capacities for Tool Behavior and Hominid Evolution -- Primate Tool Behavior -- Discussion -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects