Overview
- Provides new and original empirical and theoretical research on howler monkeys
- Examines specific behavioral and physiological mechanisms that enable howler monkeys to exploit highly disturbed and fragmented habitats
- Presents evolutionary and adaptive explanations for the ecological success of howler monkeys
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects (DIPR)
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Howler monkeys (genus Alouatta) comprise 12 species of leaf-eating New World monkeys that range from southern Mexico through northern Argentina. This genus is the most widespread of any New World primate and can be found to inhabit a range of forest types from undisturbed rainforest to severely anthropogenically-impacted forest fragments. Although there have been many studies on individual species of howler monkeys, this book is the first comprehensive volume that places information on howler behavior and biology within a theoretical framework of ecological and social adaptability. This is the first of two companion volumes devoted to the genus Alouatta.
This volume:
· Provides new and original empirical and theoretical research on howler monkeys
· Presents evolutionary and adaptive explanations for the ecological success of howler monkeys
· Examines howler behavior and ecology within a comparative framework
These goals are achieved in a collection of chapters written by a distinguished group of scientists on the evolutionary history, paleontology, taxonomy, genetics, morphology, physiology, and anatomy of howlers. The volume also contains chapters on howlers as vectors of infectious diseases, ethnoprimatology, and conservation.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Taxonomy, Genetics, Morphology and Evolution
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Physiology
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Ontogeny and Sensory Ecology
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Conclusions
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Reviews
“Howler monkeys are among the best studied and most successful adaptive radiations of Neotropical primates. … This volume … exemplifies that approach by focusing on howler monkeys’ evolution and morphology, and changing views of their systematics. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty.” (L. K. Sheeran, Choice, Vol. 52 (11), July, 20115)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Howler Monkeys
Book Subtitle: Adaptive Radiation, Systematics, and Morphology
Editors: Martín M. Kowalewski, Paul A. Garber, Liliana Cortés-Ortiz, Bernardo Urbani, Dionisios Youlatos
Series Title: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1957-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-1956-7Published: 16 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4299-2Published: 22 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-1957-4Published: 15 December 2014
Series ISSN: 1574-3489
Series E-ISSN: 1574-3497
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 425
Number of Illustrations: 47 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Evolutionary Biology, Animal Genetics and Genomics, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Animal Ecology, Zoology