Eat or be Eaten: Predator Sensitive Foraging Among Primates - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0521804515 ISBN 13: 9780521804516

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Riassunto

Predator sensitive foraging represents the strategies that animals employ to balance the need to eat against the need to avoid being eaten. Ecologists working with a wide range of taxa have developed sophisticated theoretical models of these strategies, and have produced elegant data to test them. However, only recently have primatologists begun to turn their attention to this area of research. This volume brings together primary data from a variety of primate species living in both natural habitats and experimental settings, and explores the variables that may play a role in primates' behavioural strategies. Taken together, these studies demonstrate that predator sensitive foraging is relevant to many primates, of various body sizes and group sizes and living in different environments. Eat or be Eaten encourages further discussion and investigation of the subject. It will make fascinating reading for researchers and students in primatology, ecology and animal behaviour.

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Recensione

"Succinct...each [paper] is short and to the point, with a clear empirical focus and a commendably uniform format. This book [provides] a very useful compendium of knowledge." Ecoscience

Descrizione del libro

Predator sensitive foraging is about balancing the need to eat against the need to avoid being eaten. Eat or be Eaten explores all the available information from fieldwork and the laboratory to broaden our understanding of this complex but fascinating field.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521804515
• ISBN 13: 9780521804516
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 310
• Redattore: Miller Lynne E.