Behavioral Flexibility in Primates - Causes and Consequences
von: Clara Jones
Springer-Verlag, 2006
ISBN: 9780387233277
Sprache: Englisch
184 Seiten, Download: 1466 KB
Format: PDF, auch als Online-Lesen
Numerous figures, illustrations, and tables; integration of new literature and concepts into field of primatology; emphasis upon both behavioral and cognitive mechanisms.
Clara B. Jones, Ph.D. has studied spiders, fish, monkeys, and humans, including work in the field, in zoological gardens, and in the laboratory. Most of her research, beginning in 1973, has been conducted on the howling monkeys of Central America. Her publications primarily relate to sexual selection, reproductive competition, social organization, interindividual conflicts of interest, dispersal, and evolution in heterogeneous regimes. She has also contributed to the literature on primate conservation and population biology.