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L. Alterman
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Clark College, Dubuque, USA
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Gerald A. Doyle
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University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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M. Kay Izard
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Duke University, Durham, USA
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Table of contents (36 chapters)
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Vocal and Chemical Communication
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- Simon K. Bearder, Paul E. Honess, Lesley Ambrose
Pages 331-352
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- Charles Evans, Alain Schilling
Pages 393-411
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Social Organization
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- Eleanor J. Sterling, Alison F. Richard
Pages 439-451
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Locomotion
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- Holger Preuschoft, Hartmut Witte, Martin Fischer
Pages 453-472
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Conservation
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- Anna T. C. Feistner, J. Bryan Carroll
Pages 519-525
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Back Matter
Pages 564-571
About this book
The papers in this volume are representative of those presented at a conference entitled "Creatures of the Dark: The Nocturnal Prosimians," held at Duke University, June 9-12, 1993. The purpose of the conference, attended by more than 100 scientists, was to assemble, for the ftrst time ever, scholars from diverse ftelds with a common interest in the nocturnal prosimian primates. The history of the precursors of this meeting are outlined in the Historical Perspective by Doyle (this volume). Most of the invited papers are presented here in modified form, as are several papers originally presented as posters. Two papers are included that were not presented, due to scheduling conftcts and health considerations. Some papers, delivered from the podium, are not included in this volume. Interactions among conference participants resulted in many revisions to the contributions, as did the comments of reviewers and the editors. Several papers which contained new data or new interpretations of familiar phenomena met with constructive criticism, resulting in modification of the original papers. We thank all of the contributors for their patience and cooperation, and commend the numerous reviewers who generously donated their time and expertise. We greatly appreciate funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Duke University Center for International Studies, the Duke University Primate Center, and Drs. Charles Putman of Duke University and Malcolm Gillis, currently of Rice Universtiy.
Reviews
`This volume contains a wealth of information, much of it new and exciting, from many aspects of nocturnal prosimian biology.'
The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 1997
Editors and Affiliations
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Clark College, Dubuque, USA
L. Alterman
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University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Gerald A. Doyle
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Duke University, Durham, USA
M. Kay Izard
