Old World Monkeys - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old World Monkeys write by Paul F. Whitehead. This book was released on 2000-05-04. Old World Monkeys available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Old World monkeys are the most successful and diverse group of non-human primates alive today. Covering a broad spectrum of topics from molecular phylogeny to population structure, this book is the definitive reference work for researchers, graduates and senior undergraduate students in primatology, anthropology and related fields.
Old World Monkeys
Old World Monkeys - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old World Monkeys write by Ann Elwood. This book was released on 2000. Old World Monkeys available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of various species of Old World monkeys, those living in the rain forests and woodland-grassland regions of Africa and Asia.
New World Monkeys
New World Monkeys - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New World Monkeys write by Alfred L. Rosenberger. This book was released on 2020-09-01. New World Monkeys available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Psychological Well-Being of Nonhuman Primates
The Psychological Well-Being of Nonhuman Primates - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Psychological Well-Being of Nonhuman Primates write by National Research Council. This book was released on 1998-11-03. The Psychological Well-Being of Nonhuman Primates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A 1985 amendment to the Animal Welfare Act requires those who keep nonhuman primates to develop and follow appropriate plans for promoting the animals' psychological well-being. The amendment, however, provides few specifics. The Psychological Well-Being of Nonhuman Primates recommends practical approaches to meeting those requirements. It focuses on what is known about the psychological needs of primates and makes suggestions for assessing and promoting their well-being. This volume examines the elements of an effective care programâ€"social companionship, opportunities for species-typical activity, housing and sanitation, and daily care routinesâ€"and provides a helpful checklist for designing a plan for promoting psychological well-being. The book provides a wealth of specific and useful information about the psychological attributes and needs of the most widely used and exhibited nonhuman primates. Readable and well-organized, it will be welcomed by animal care and use committees, facilities administrators, enforcement inspectors, animal advocates, researchers, veterinarians, and caretakers.
Evolutionary Biology of the New World Monkeys and Continental Drift
Evolutionary Biology of the New World Monkeys and Continental Drift - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evolutionary Biology of the New World Monkeys and Continental Drift write by Russell L. Ciochon. This book was released on 2013-12-01. Evolutionary Biology of the New World Monkeys and Continental Drift available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is now well known that the concept of drifting continents became an estab lished theory during the 1960s. Not long after this "revolution in the earth sciences," researchers began applying the continental drift model to problems in historical biogeography. One such problem was the origin and dispersal of the New World monkeys, the Platyrrhini. Our interests in this subject began in the late 1960s on different conti nents quite independent of one another in the cities of Florence, Italy, and Berkeley, California. In Florence in 1968, A. B. Chiarelli, through stimulating discussions with R. von Koenigswald and B. de Boer, became intrigued with the possibility that a repositioning of the continents of Africa and South America in the early Cenozoic might alter previous traditional conceptions of a North American origin of the Platyrrhini. During the early 1970s this con cept was expanded and pursued by him through discussions with students while serving as visiting professor at the University of Toronto. By this time, publication of the Journal of Human Evolution was well underway, and Dr. Chiarelli as editor encouraged a dialogue emphasizing continental drift models of primate origins which culminated in a series of articles published in that journal during 1974-75. In early 1970, while attending the University of California at Berkeley, R. L. Ciochon was introduced to the concept of continental drift and plate tectonics and their concomitant applications to vertebrate evolution through talks with paleontologist W. A. Clemens and anthropologist S. L. Washburn.
