Ethnoprimatology : primate conservation in the 21st century

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    • Waller, Michel T.

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Ethnoprimatology : primate conservation in the 21st century

Michel T. Waller, editor

(Developments in primatology : progress and prospects)

Springer, c2016

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The list of challenges facing nonhuman primates in the 21st century is a long one. The expansion of palm oil plantations to feed a growing consumer class is eating away at ape and monkey habitats in Southeast Asia and Central Africa. Lemurs are hunted for food in the poorest parts of Madagascar while monkeys are used as medicine in Brazil. Traditional cultural beliefs are maintaining demand for animal body parts in West African markets while viral YouTube videos of "cute" and "cuddly" lorises have increased their market value as pets and endangered their populations. These and other issues are addressed in this book by leading researchers in the field of ethnoprimatology, the study of human/nonhuman primate interactions that combines traditional primatological methodologies with cultural anthropology in an effort to better understand the nuances of our economic, ritualistic, and ecologic relationships.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- 1. Ethnoprimatology and Conservation: Applying Insights and Developing Practice.- 2. The Threat of Industrial Oil palm Expansion to Primates and Their Habitats.- 3. Monkeys on the Menu? Reconciling Patterns of Primate Hunting and Consumption in a Central African Village.- 4. Conservation Medicine: A Solution Based Approach for Saving Nonhuman Primates.- 5. How Do Primates Survive Among Humans? Mechanisms Employed by Vervet Monkeys Lake.- 6. Indigenous Peoples, Primates, and Conservation Evidence: A Case Study Focusing on the Waorani of the Maxus Road.- 7. The Role of Nonhuman Primates in Religious and Folk Medicine Beliefs.- 8. Problematic Primate Behaviour in Agricultural Landscapes: Chimpanzees as "Pests" and "Predators".- 9. Competition Between Chimpanzees and Humans: the Effects of Harvesting Non-Timber Forest Products.- 10. The Effects of War on Bonobos and other Nonhuman Primates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.- 11. Primate taxonomy and Conservation.- 12. Government and Community Based Primate Conservation Initiatives in Peru.- 13. Managing Human-Orangutan Relationships in Rehabilitation.- 14. The Little Fireface Project - Community Conservation of Asia's Slow Lorises Via Ecology, Education, and Empowerment.- 15. The Many Facets of Human Disturbances at the Tonkolili Chimpanzee Site.- 16. How Living Near Humans Affects Singapore's Urban Macaques.- 17. Risk-taking in Samango Monkeys in Relation to Humans at Two Sites in South Africa.- 18. Predicting Future Effects of Multiple Drivers of Extinction Risk in Peru's Endemic Primate Fauna.- 19. Protecting Nonhuman Primates in Peri-urban Environments: A Case Study of Neotropical Monkeys, Corridor Ecology, and Coastal Economy in the Caribe Sur of Costa Rica.- 20. Primates and People in the Zoo: Implications of Human-Animal Interactions and Relationships.- 21. Conservation: New Potential for Stable Isotope Analysis?.- Index.

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Details

  • NCID
    BB21908443
  • ISBN
    • 9783319304670
  • LCCN
    2016944024
  • Country Code
    sz
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    [Cham]
  • Pages/Volumes
    ix, 422 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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