Savanna Monkeys
Savanna Monkeys
Christopher A. Schmitt, Boston University
Jennifer Danzy Cramer, American Military University and American Public University
£71.99
GBPLiving across Africa and the Caribbean, this widely dispersed primate population must adapt to different environmental challenges. How do members of the genus Chlorocebus live in desert-like conditions and in areas with freezing temperatures and snow in winter? This book examines the ways these primates adapt genetically, hormonally, physically and behaviourally to their changing landscapes. It features summary chapters for major topics such as behavioural ecology, life history, taxonomy, genetics and ethnoprimatology. Shorter essays supplement the work, with experts detailing their particular research on these primates. The combination of scholarship provides both a comprehensive view of this adaptable genus while enabling the reader to gain depth in specific topics. Developed from a symposium, this book combines decades of experience working with savanna monkeys into a tangible resource, for students and researchers in primatology as well as evolutionary and behavioural studies.
- Focuses on a primate common throughout Africa and the Caribbean yet noticeably understudied, to bring much needed scholarly emphasis to this adaptable genus
- Offers insights and learning from experts with more than four decades of experience working on aspects of vervet life history
- Developed from a large symposium, this book collates a wide spectrum of learning and contributions into a crucial resource
Reviews & endorsements
'Savanna monkeys are noted to be numerous and widespread across their range, perhaps the most numerous non-human primate. In terms of conservation biology it is well known that common species can suddenly undergo rapid and sometimes difficult to explain declines. Whilst savanna monkeys are not endangered and are still common, perhaps study and analysis could be directed to help keep them that way and research with this aim might benefit other less fortunate taxa.' Ray Heaton, Primate Eye
'The book arose from a symposium on savanna monkeys and is a well organised collection of 20 chapters … which are usefully grouped together in six parts of the book: Introduction, Taxonomy, Population Genetics, Behavioural Ecology, Life Histories and Ethnoprimatology … there are excellent chapters covering behavioural ecology.' Ray Heaton, The Primate Eye
Product details
March 2019Hardback
9780521782944
358 pages
235 × 156 × 21 mm
0.7kg
34 b/w illus. 5 tables
Available
Table of Contents
- Preface Trudy R. Turner, Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer Danzy Cramer
- 1. Introduction Trudy R. Turner, Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer Danzy Cramer
- 2. Biological resources for genomic investigation in vervet monkey (Chlorocebus) Anna J. Jasinska
- 3. Vervet taxonomy Trudy R. Turner, Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer Danzy Cramer
- 4. The promise of vervet genomics Wesley C. Warren and Michael J. Montague
- 5. African green monkeys as a natural host of SIV Cristian Apetrei, Kevin Raehtz and Ivona Pandrea
- 6. The vervet microbiome Katherine R. Amato
- 7. Population genetics Trudy R. Turner, Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer Danzy Cramer
- 8. Population genetic structure of vervet monkeys in South Africa Willem G. Coetzer, Joseph G. Lorenz, Nelson B. Freimer and J. Paul Grobler
- 9. Behavioral ecology of vervets Trudy R. Turner, Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer Danzy Cramer
- 10. Socioecology of vervet monkeys Patricia Whitten
- 11. Biological complexity in primate sociality and health Brandi T. Wren
- 12. Predation and food competition in vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) Lynne A. Isbell
- 13. Vervet monkeys' social learning abilities Erica van de Waal
- 14. Life history Trudy R. Turner, Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer Danzy Cramer
- 15. The social and thermal competence of wild vervet monkeys Richard McFarland, Peter Henzi and Louise Barrett
- 16. Novelty seeking in vervets: developmental, genetic and environmental influences Lynn A. Fairbanks
- 17. Measurement of novelty seeking in wild vervet monkeys Maryjka Blaszczyk
- 18. Causes of variation in the static allometry of morphological structures: a case study with vervet monkeys Rafael L. RodrÃguez, Tegan J. Gaetano, J. Paul Grobler and Nelson B. Freimer
- 19. Ethnoprimatology Trudy R. Turner, Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer Danzy Cramer
- 20. Exploring Caribbean vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) through an ethnoprimatological lens Kerry M. Dore
- 21. Vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and humans (Homo sapiens): studying interactions using stable isotope analysis Matt Sponheimer, James E. Loudon, J. Paul Grobler, Kimberly Moyer and Joseph G. Lorenz.
