[PDF] Primates In Peril eBook

Author : Christoph Schwitzer
Publisher :
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 2017-11-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780692960943

GET BOOK

Every two years we produce this report of the World's 25 Most Endangered Primates compiled from primatologists attending the International Primatological Society Congress.

Author : Wednesday Martin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476762716

GET BOOK

"Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a brilliantly original and witty memoir about her adventures assimilating into that most secretive and elite tribe. After marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood, Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in. Drawing on her background in anthropology and primatology, she tried looking at her new world through that lens, and suddenly things fell into place. She understood the other mothers' snobbiness at school drop-off when she compared them to olive baboons. Her obsessional quest for a Hermes Birkin handbag made sense when she realized other females wielded them to establish dominance in their troop. And so she analyzed tribal migration patterns; display rituals; physical adornment, mutilation, and mating practices; extra-pair copulation; and more. Her conclusions are smart, thought-provoking, and hilariously unexpected. Every city has its Upper East Side, and in Wednesday's memoir, readers everywhere will recognize the strange cultural codes of powerful social hierarchies and the compelling desire to climb them. They will also see that Upper East Side mothers want the same things for their children that all mothers want--safety, happiness, and success--and not even sky-high penthouses and chauffeured SUVs can protect this ecologically released tribe from the universal experiences of anxiety and loss. When Wednesday's life turns upside down, she learns how deep the bonds of female friendship really are. Intelligent, funny, and heartfelt, Primates of Park Avenue lifts a veil on a secret, elite world within a world--the exotic, fascinating, and strangely familiar culture of privileged Manhattan motherhood"--

Author : Serge A. Wich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0198703384

GET BOOK

This book provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art synthesis of research principles and applied management practices for primate conservation.

Author : Russell A. Mittermeier
Publisher : Conservation International Tropical Pocket Guide Series
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 28,16 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Indridae
ISBN : 9781934151310

GET BOOK

Laminated identification guide illustrating 65 species of extant nocturnal prosimians in Madagascar.

Author : Kurt Benirschke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1027 pages
File Size : 38,57 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 146124918X

GET BOOK

This conference represents the first time in my life when I felt it was a misfor tune, rather than a major cause of my happiness, that I do conservation work in New Guinea. Yes, it is true that New Guinea is a fascinating microcosm, it has fascinating birds and people, and it has large expanses of undisturbed rainforest. In the course of my work there, helping the Indonesian government and World Wildlife Fund set up a comprehensive national park system, I have been able to study animals in areas without any human population. But New Guinea has one serious drawback: it has no primates, except for humans. Thus, I come to this conference on primate conservation as an underprivileged and emotionally deprived observer, rather than as an involved participant. Nevertheless, it is easy for anyone to become interested in primate conserva tion. The public cares about primates. More specifically, to state things more realistically, many people care some of the time about some primates. Primates are rivaled only by birds, pandas, and the big cats in their public appeal. For some other groups of animals, the best we can say is that few people care about them, infrequently. For most groups of animals, no one cares about them, ever.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 1998-11-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309176506

GET BOOK

A 1985 amendment to the Animal Welfare Act requires those who keep nonhuman primates to develop and follow appropriate plans for promoting the animals' psychological well-being. The amendment, however, provides few specifics. The Psychological Well-Being of Nonhuman Primates recommends practical approaches to meeting those requirements. It focuses on what is known about the psychological needs of primates and makes suggestions for assessing and promoting their well-being. This volume examines the elements of an effective care programâ€"social companionship, opportunities for species-typical activity, housing and sanitation, and daily care routinesâ€"and provides a helpful checklist for designing a plan for promoting psychological well-being. The book provides a wealth of specific and useful information about the psychological attributes and needs of the most widely used and exhibited nonhuman primates. Readable and well-organized, it will be welcomed by animal care and use committees, facilities administrators, enforcement inspectors, animal advocates, researchers, veterinarians, and caretakers.

Author : Francine L. Dolins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 40,94 MB
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1107062306

GET BOOK

A primatologist's guide to using geographic information systems (GIS); from mapping and field accuracy, to tracking travel routes and the impact of logging.