Primate Anti-Predator Strategies (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects)

✍ Scribed by Sharon L. Gursky, K.A.I. Nekaris

Publisher: Springer
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 409
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume details the different ways that nocturnal primates avoid predators. It is a first of its kind within primatology, and is therefore the only work giving a broad overview of predation – nocturnal primate predation theory in particular – in the field Additionally, the book incorporates several chapters on the theoretical advances that researchers studying nocturnal primates need to make.

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