Primate Behavioral Ecology (6th Edition)

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This extensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic perspectives with new results from field studies as well as contemporary noninvasive molecular and hormonal techniques in order to gain an understanding of how various primates behave as well as the significance of these insights for primate conservation. Strier places a strong emphasis on the interplay between theory, observations, and conservation issues throughout each of the book's chapters, which are all grouped around the key research themes currently being conducted in the field. In order to highlight the immense behavioral heterogeneity that exists within the primate order, examples are selected from “classic” primate field studies as well as more recent investigations. These more recent studies include a large number of species that were previously disregarded. The sixth edition of Primate Behavioral Ecology emphasizes the significance of behavioral flexibility for primate conservation, as well as the effects that anthropogenic activities, such as zoonotic disease and climate change, have on primate populations. This completely revised and updated new version provides an unrivaled introduction of the area of monkey behavioral ecology and the ways in which it can be used to primate conservation. It does so by bringing together a number of interesting new approaches, theoretical perspectives, and discoveries. All students who have even a passing interest in primates should make it a point to read this article.