Zoology: mammals (mammalogy)

This book explores attitudes and strategies towards the return of the wild in times of ecological crisis, focusing on wolves in Europe.

This book explores attitudes and strategies towards the return of the wild in times of ecological crisis, focusing on wolves in Europe.

A major problem with vampire bats is that whatever information exists is scattered throughout the literature or is not recorded.

A major problem with vampire bats is that whatever information exists is scattered throughout the literature or is not recorded.

Whales and dolphins are icons for the conservation movement.

Whales and dolphins are icons for the conservation movement.

The contributors to this volume present research concerning the cognitive structures and development of nonhuman primates from a cognitive psychological perspective.

The contributors to this volume present research concerning the cognitive structures and development of nonhuman primates from a cognitive psychological perspective.

First published in 1977.

First published in 1977.

This comprehensive introduction demonstrates the theoretical perspectives and concepts that are applied to primate behavior, and explores the relevance of non-human primates to understanding human behavior.

This comprehensive introduction demonstrates the theoretical perspectives and concepts that are applied to primate behavior, and explores the relevance of non-human primates to understanding human behavior.

This text can be used for any undergraduate or graduate course with a primate behavior or primate ecology component.

This text can be used for any undergraduate or graduate course with a primate behavior or primate ecology component.

Part of the Primate Field Studies series.

Primatologists have long viewed small fruiting trees, like figs, as the reason for gibbons' territorial and monogamous behavior.

Primatologists have long viewed small fruiting trees, like figs, as the reason for gibbons' territorial and monogamous behavior.

Part of the Primate Field Studies series.

This book describes the first field study focusing on the behavior of hamadryas females in the wild.

This book describes the first field study focusing on the behavior of hamadryas females in the wild.

This volume presents a selection of some of the most exciting new perspectives on moral development that have emerged over the last decade and have transformed our understanding of the field.

A major contribution to great-ape research, covering every aspect of the Mahale Mountain Chimpanzee Project to offer new, unique insights.

A major contribution to great-ape research, covering every aspect of the Mahale Mountain Chimpanzee Project to offer new, unique insights.

What separates modern humans from our primate cousins-are we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive evolutionary turn?

What separates modern humans from our primate cousins-are we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive evolutionary turn?

In this volume, the authors present an original ethnographic study of five llama herding communities in Ayacucho, Peru.

In this volume, the authors present an original ethnographic study of five llama herding communities in Ayacucho, Peru.

Malaria is one of the oldest recorded diseases in human history, and its 10,000-year relationship to primates can teach us why it will be one of the most serious threats to humanity in the 21st century.

Malaria is one of the oldest recorded diseases in human history, and its 10,000-year relationship to primates can teach us why it will be one of the most serious threats to humanity in the 21st century.

This book summarizes and analyzes the biology, ecology, exploitation and management of small cetaceans in Japan.

This book summarizes and analyzes the biology, ecology, exploitation and management of small cetaceans in Japan.

This remarkable primate with the curious name is challenging established views on human evolution.

This remarkable primate with the curious name is challenging established views on human evolution.

This book compares the beginning of symbolic thought in human infancy with that of our close primate relatives, the chimpanzees.

This book compares the beginning of symbolic thought in human infancy with that of our close primate relatives, the chimpanzees.

In this new volume, leading researchers provide state-of-the-art perspectives on how social interaction influences the development of knowledge.

Haraway's discussions of how scientists have perceived the sexual nature of female primates opens a new chapter in feminist theory, raising unsettling questions about models of the family and of heterosexuality in primate research.

Haraway's discussions of how scientists have perceived the sexual nature of female primates opens a new chapter in feminist theory, raising unsettling questions about models of the family and of heterosexuality in primate research.

Expand your knowledgewith theories and concepts that may challenge your assumptions about sexual attractionHuman sexuality can be better understood by knowing how sexual psychologies may have evolved throughout the ages.

Expand your knowledgewith theories and concepts that may challenge your assumptions about sexual attractionHuman sexuality can be better understood by knowing how sexual psychologies may have evolved throughout the ages.

This is Volume IV of four in a collection on Comparative Psychology.

This is Volume IV of four in a collection on Comparative Psychology.

Wolfgang Koehler demonstrated that chimpanzees could solve problems by applying insight.

Wolfgang Koehler demonstrated that chimpanzees could solve problems by applying insight.

Although Seibutsu no Sekai (The World of Living Things), the seminal 1941 work of Kinji Imanishi, had an enormous impact in Japan, both on scholars and on the general public, very little is known about it in the English-speaking world.

Although Seibutsu no Sekai (The World of Living Things), the seminal 1941 work of Kinji Imanishi, had an enormous impact in Japan, both on scholars and on the general public, very little is known about it in the English-speaking world.

Based on the 25th Anniversary Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, this book represents cutting-edge work on the mechanisms of cognitive, social, and cultural development.

Based on the 25th Anniversary Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, this book represents cutting-edge work on the mechanisms of cognitive, social, and cultural development.

Recent studies of vocal development in infants have shed new light on old questions of how the speech capacity is founded and how it may have evolved in the human species.

Recent studies of vocal development in infants have shed new light on old questions of how the speech capacity is founded and how it may have evolved in the human species.