Patchy foraging. Review of adaptations for foraging in nonhuman primates: Contributions to an organismal biology of prosimians, monkeys and apes edited by Peter S. Rodman and John G. H. Cant. New York, Columbia University Press, 1984, 351 pp, $35,00 cloth; $18.50 paper

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• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 118 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0275-2565
• DOI: 10.1002/ajp.1350100109

✦ Synopsis

This volume is the result of a symposium on "Foraging in Nonhuman Primates" organized by Peter Rodman and John Cant at the 1980 meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Its 11 essays share a concern with foraging, but are not obviously linked in other ways. The first four chapters (Kay, Grand, Crompton, Garber) deal with comparative morphology, and the rest deal with comparative socioecology (Rodman, Ghiglieri,