Field and Laboratory Methods in Primatology

Joanna M. Setchell is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Surrey Roehampton, and the Centre International de Recherches Médicales in Gabon. Deborah J. Curtis is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Surrey Roehampton.

1. Human-nonhuman primate interactions: an ethnoprimatological approach Lisa Jones-Engel, Michael A. Schillaci and Gregory A. Engel; 2. Habituating primates: processes, techniques, variables and ethics Elizabeth A. Williamson and Anna T. C. Feistner; 3. Habitat description and phenology Jörg U. Ganzhorn; 4. The Global Positioning System, Geographical Information Systems and remote sensing Karel Hughes; 5. Monitoring local weather and climate Julian Mayes; 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 Marc Ancrenaz, Joanna M. Setchell and Deborah J. Curtis; 9. Morphology, morphometrics and taxonomy Colin Groves and Joanne Harding; 10. Marking and radio-tracking Paul E. Honess and David W. MacDonald; 11. Feeding ecology and seed dispersal J. Lawrence Dew; 12. Dietary analysis I: food physics Peter W. Lucas, Daniel Osorio, Nayuta Yamashita, Jonathan F. Prinz, Nathaniel J. Dominy and Brian W. Darvell; 13. Dietary analysis II: food chemistry Peter W. Lucas, Richard T. Corlett, Nathaniel J. Dominy, Hafejee C. Essackjee, Pablo Riba-Hernandez, Kathryn E. Stoner and Nayuta Yamashita; 14. Collecting arthropods and arthropod remains for primate studies Claire M. P. Ozanne and James R. Bell; 15. Tape-recording primate vocalisations Thomas Geissmann; 16. Photography and video for field researchers Noel Rowe and Marc Myers; 17. Chronological aspects of primate research Hans G. Erkert; 18. Thermoregulation and energetics Jutta Schmid; 19. Field endocrinology: monitoring hormonal changes in free-ranging primates J. Keith Hodges and Michael Heistermann; 20. 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; 21. Tips from the bush: an A-Z of suggestions for successful fieldwork Simon K. Bearder, K. A. I. Nekaris, Deborah J. Curtis, J. Lawrence Dew, Julia N. Lloyd and Joanna M. Setchell.