Author: Thad Q. BartlettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Feeding and Ranging Behavior of the White-handed Gibbon (Hylobates Lar) in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand
Author: Thad Q. BartlettThe Gibbons of Khao Yai
Author: Thad Q. BartlettPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317348052
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Primatologists have long viewed small fruiting trees, like figs, as the reason for gibbons’ territorial and monogamous behavior. However, at Khao Yai National Park in Thailand where gibbons are prevalent, figs are one of the largest trees in the forest. In this long-term field study, Bartlett takes up this apparent contradiction, and follows gibbons as their major food sources wax and wane over time.This is an important reference on gibbons and the study of small apes which provides a thorough, expansive coverage of the relationship between fruit abundance and diet, range use, and intergroup interactions in Gibbon apes. The Gibbons of Khao Yai: Seasonal Variation in Behavior and Ecology provides an essential resource for students conducting research in this field.
The Vocalisations and Anti-predatory Behaviour of Wild White-handed Gibbons (Hylobates Lar) in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand
Author: Esther Anne Elizabeth ClarkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hylobates lar
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Gibbons
Author: Susan LappanPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387886044
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
It is a great honor to be asked to introduce this exciting new volume, having been heavily involved in the first comprehensive synthesis in the early 1980s. Gibbons are the most enthralling of primates. On the one hand, they are the most appealing animals, with their upright posture and body shape, facial markings, dramatic arm-swinging locomotion and suspensory postures, and devastating duets; on the other hand, the small apes are the most diverse, hence biologically valuable and informative, of our closest relatives. It is hard for me to believe that it is 40 years to the month since I first set foot on the Malay Peninsula to start my doctoral study of the siamang. I am very proud to have followed in the footsteps of the great pioneer of primate field study, Clarence Ray Carpenter (CR or Ray, who I was fortunate to meet twice, in Pennsylvania and in Zurich), first in Central America (in 1967) and then in Southeast Asia. It is 75 years since he studied howler monkeys on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal Zone. It is 70 years since he studied the white-handed gibbon in Thailand.
Behavioral Study of Maturation of White-handed Gibbons (hylobates Lar) at Khao Yai National Park, Thailand
Author: Udomlux SuwanvechoThe Vocalisations and Anti-predatory Behaviour of Wild White-handed Gibbons (Hylobates Lar) in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand
Author: Esther Anne Elizabeth ClarkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hylobates lar
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The Ecology and Conservation of Asian Hornbills
Author: Margaret F. KinnairdPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226437124
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Hornbills are among the world’s most distinct birds. Easily recognized by their oversized beaks adorned with large casques, they range from Africa to India and throughout Asia. One of the oldest bird orders, they have been known to mankind for millennia and loom large in the mythology of indigenous cultures of tropical Asia. In the past thirty years, ecologists have uncovered many fascinating aspects of hornbill biology, from their unique nest-sealing behavior to their roles as farmers of the forest. Building on fourteen years of research, Margaret F. Kinnaird and Timothy G. O’Brien offer in Ecology and Conservation of Asian Hornbills the most up-to-date information on the evolution, reproduction, feeding ecology, and movement patterns of thirty-one species of Asian hornbills. The authors address questions of ecological functionality, ecosystem services, and keystone relationships, as well as the disturbing influence of forest loss and fragmentation on hornbills. Complemented by superb full-color images by renowned photographer Tim Laman that provide rare glimpses of hornbills in their native habitat and black-and-white illustrations by Jonathan Kingdon that highlight the intriguing aspects of hornbill behavior, Ecology and Conservation of Asian Hornbills will stand tall in the pantheon of natural history studies for years to come.
Indonesian Primates
Author: Sharon Gursky-DoyenPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441915605
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Indonesia possesses the second largest primate population in the world, with over 33 different primate species. Although Brazil possesses more primate species, Indonesia outranks it in terms of its diversity of primates, ranging from prosimians (slow lorises and tarsiers), to a multitude of Old World Monkey species (macaques, langurs, proboscis moneys) to lesser apes (siamangs, gibbons) and great apes (orangutans). The primates of Indonesia are distributed throughout the archipelago. Partly in response to the number of primates distributed throughout the Indonesian archipelago, Indonesia is classified as the home of two biodiversity hotspots (Wallacea and Sundaland). In order to be classified as a hotspot, an area must have a large proportion of endemic species coupled with a high degree of threat including having lost more than 70% of its original habitat. Two areas within Indonesia meet these criteria. The tremendous diversity of primates in Indonesia, in conjunction with the conservation issues facing the primates of this region, created a need for this volume.
Characteristics of Fruits Consumed by the White-handed Gibbon (Hylobates Lar) in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand
Author: Chuti-On KanwatanakidPublisher:
ISBN: 9789746647144
Category : Fruit
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Natural History of Primates
Author: Robert W. SussmanPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442249005
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 699
Book Description
The interest in primates, from lemurs to gorillas, has never been greater. Primatologists are continually finding evidence in the behavior and ecology of our closest genetic relatives that sheds light on human origins. So, just who are these 520+ species of complex and intelligent mammals inhabiting the Neotropics, Africa, Madagascar, and Asia? The Natural History of Primates provides the most current information on wild primates from experts who have studied them in their natural environments. This volume provides up-to-date facts and figures on how groups of social primates interact with each other and the plants and other animal species in their ecosystems: what they eat, which predators might eat them, how males and females seek mates, how infants are raised, and myriad other fascinating details about their visual and vocal communication, their ability to craft and use tools, and the varieties of locomotion they employ. As human populations continue to expand into the rainforests, savannas, and woodlands where nonhuman primates dwell, the preservation of these species becomes ever more important. The Natural History of Primates is unique in its emphasis on the conservation status of primate species and its ample discussions of how humans and nonhuman primates can coexist in the twenty-first century.