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Howler Monkeys

Adaptive Radiation, Systematics, and Morphology

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Editors:
  1. Martín M. Kowalewski

    1. Estación Biológica Corrientes, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina

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  2. Paul A. Garber

    1. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

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  3. Liliana Cortés-Ortiz

    1. Museum of Zoology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

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  4. Bernardo Urbani

    1. Centro de Antropología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela

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  5. Dionisios Youlatos

    1. Department of Zoology, Aristotle University of Thessalonik, Greece

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  • 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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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Conclusions

    1. New Challenges in the Study of Howler Monkey Anatomy, Physiology, Sensory Ecology, and Evolution: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go?

      • Dionisios Youlatos, Martín M. Kowalewski, Paul A. Garber, Liliana Cortés-Ortiz
      Pages 403-414

  2. Back Matter

    Pages 415-425
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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.

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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Estación Biológica Corrientes, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina

    Martín M. Kowalewski

  • Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

    Paul A. Garber

  • Museum of Zoology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

    Liliana Cortés-Ortiz

  • Centro de Antropología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela

    Bernardo Urbani

  • Department of Zoology, Aristotle University of Thessalonik, Greece

    Dionisios Youlatos

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