Field and Laboratory Methods in Primatology

Joanna M. Setchell is Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology at Durham University, and Director of the MSc in Evolutionary Anthropology. Her research integrates behaviour, morphology and demographic studies with genetics and endocrinology to address questions relating to reproductive strategies, life history and sexual selection in primates. Deborah J. Curtis is Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology and Geography at Oxford Brookes University. Her interests focus on lemur biology and she has conducted research on functional anatomy, behaviour and ecology, reproductive endocrinology, food chemistry, activity patterns and genetics. She also works as a scientific and medical translator.

Introduction Deborah J. Curtis, Joanna M. Setchell and Maurico Talebi; 1. Human-nonhuman primate interactions: an ethnoprimatological approach Lisa Jones-Engel, Gregory A. Engel and Agustin Fuentes; 2. Habituating primates: processes, techniques, variables and ethics Elizabeth A. Williamson and Anna T. C. Feistner; 3. Habitat description and phenology Jörg U. Ganzhorn, S. Jacques Rakotondranary and Yedidya R. Ratovonamana; 4. Geographic information systems and remote sensing Patrick E. Osborne and Louise Glew; 5. Monitoring local weather and climate Julian C. Mayes and Nicholas Pepin; 6. Survey and census methods: population distribution and density Caroline Ross and Nigel Reeve; 7. Trapping Clifford J. Jolly, Jane E. Phillips-Conroy and Alexandra E. Müller; 8. Handling, anaesthesia, health evaluation and biological sampling Steve Unwin, Marc Ancrenaz and Wendi Bailey; 9. Morphology, morphometrics and taxonomy Colin Groves and Joanne Harding; 10. Marking and radio-tracking Paul E. Honess and David W. Macdonald; 11. Field experiments with non-human primates: a tutorial Klaus Zuberbühler and Roman Wittig; 12. Feeding ecology, frugivory and seed dispersal J. Lawrence Dew; 13. Dietary analysis I: food physics Peter W. Lucas, Daniel Osorio, Nayuta Yamashita, Jonathan F. Prinz, Nathaniel J. Dominy and Brian W. Darvell; 14. Dietary analysis II: food chemistry Peter W. Lucas, Richard T. Corlett, Nathaniel J. Dominy, Hafejee C. Essackjee, Pablo Riba-Hernandez, Lawrence Ramsden, Kathryn E. Stoner and Nayuta Yamashita; 15. Collecting arthropods and arthropod remains for primate studies Claire M. P. Ozanne, James R. Bell and Daniel G. Weaver; 16. Tape-recording primate vocalisations Thomas Geissmann and Stuart Parsons; 17. Photography and video for field researchers Noel Rowe and Marc Myers; 18. Chronobiological aspects of primate research Hans G. Erkert; 19. Thermoregulation and energetics Jutta Schmid; 20. Field endocrinology: monitoring hormonal changes in free-ranging primates J. Keith Hodges and Michael Heistermann; 21. Collection, storage and analysis of non-invasive genetic material in primate biology Benoît Goossens, Nicola Anthony, Kathryn Jeffery, Mireille Johnson-Bawe and Michael W. Bruford; 22. Tips from the bush: an A-Z of suggestions for successful fieldwork Simon K. Bearder, K. Anna, I. Nekaris and Julia N. Lloyd; Index.