Chimpanzee and red colobus : the ecology of predator and prey

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Chimpanzee and red colobus : the ecology of predator and prey

Craig B. Stanford ; with a foreword by Richard Wrangham

Harvard University Press, 1998

  • hard
  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: pbk. ISBN 9780674007222

内容説明

Our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, are familiar enough--bright and ornery and promiscuous. But they also kill and eat their kin, in this case the red colobus monkey, which may say something about primate--even hominid--evolution. This book, the first long-term field study of a predator-prey relationship involving two wild primates, documents a six-year investigation into how the risk of predation molds primate society. Taking us to Gombe National Park in Tanzania, a place made famous by Jane Goodall's studies, the book offers a close look at how predation by wild chimpanzees--observable in the park as nowhere else--has influenced the behavior, ecology, and demography of a population of red colobus monkeys. As he explores the effects of chimpanzees' hunting, Craig Stanford also asks why these creatures prey on the red colobus. Because chimpanzees are often used as models of how early humans may have lived, Stanford's findings offer insight into the possible role of early hominids as predators, a little understood aspect of human evolution. The first book-length study in a newly emerging genre of primate field study, Chimpanzee and Red Colobus expands our understanding of not just these two primate societies, but also the evolutionary ecology of predators and prey in general.

目次

  • Primates as predators and as prey
  • an African forest
  • the hunters
  • chimpanzees as predators
  • red colobus monkeys as prey
  • before the attack
  • confrontation
  • the impact of predation
  • why do chimpanzees hunt?
  • predation and primate social systems
  • conclusion
  • appendices - additional data on predator-prey ecology.
巻冊次

hard ISBN 9780674116672

内容説明

This text provides a detailed account of a predator-prey relationship involving two primates, documents a six-year investigation into how the risk of predation molds primate society. It explores how predation by wild chimpanzees - in the Gombe National Park - has influenced the behaviour, ecology, and demography of a population of red colobus monkeys. As he explores the effects of chimpanzees' hunting, Craig Stanford also asks why these creatures prey on the red colobus. Because chimpanzees are often used as models of how early humans might have lived. These findings offer insight into the possible role of early hominids as predators.

目次

  • Primates as predators and as prey
  • an African forest
  • the hunters
  • chimpanzees as predators
  • red colobus monkeys as prey
  • before the attack
  • confrontation
  • the impact of predation
  • why do chimpanzees hunt?
  • predation and primate social systems
  • conclusion
  • appendices - additional data on predator-prey ecology.

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