Ethnoprimatology (eBook)
IX, 422 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-30469-4 (ISBN)
Dr. Michel Waller has over 15 years of experience researching primates in Africa. His field studies include chimpanzee/human interactions in Senegal and bonobo/human interactions in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. Dr. Waller studies primate socioecology and behavior in an effort to better understand the spectrum of factors that have shaped early human evolution. His research has focused on ranging behavior, territoriality, aggression, and tolerance.
Dr. Michel Waller has over 15 years of experience researching primates in Africa. His field studies include chimpanzee/human interactions in Senegal and bonobo/human interactions in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. Dr. Waller studies primate socioecology and behavior in an effort to better understand the spectrum of factors that have shaped early human evolution. His research has focused on ranging behavior, territoriality, aggression, and tolerance.
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.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.7.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects |
Zusatzinfo | IX, 422 p. 66 illus., 31 illus. in color. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
Technik | |
Schlagworte | Anthropogenic Disturbance • conservation • ethnobiology • Ethnomedicine • primatology |
ISBN-10 | 3-319-30469-0 / 3319304690 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-30469-4 / 9783319304694 |
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