How Primates Eat: A Synthesis of Nutritional Ecology across a Mammal Order - Hardcover

 
9780226829739: How Primates Eat: A Synthesis of Nutritional Ecology across a Mammal Order
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226829731 ISBN 13: 9780226829739
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2024

Synopsis

Exploring everything from nutrients to food acquisition and research methods, a comprehensive synthesis of the study of diet and feeding in nonhuman primates.
 
What do we mean when we say that a diet is nutritious? Why can some animals get all the energy they need from eating leaves while others would perish on such a diet? Why don’t mountain gorillas eat fruit all day as chimpanzees do? Answers to these questions about food and feeding are among the many tasty morsels that emerge from this authoritative book. Informed by the latest scientific tools and millions of hours of field and laboratory work on species across the primate order and around the globe, this volume is an exhaustive synthesis of our understanding of what, why, and how primates eat. State-of-the-art information presented at physiological, behavioral, ecological, and evolutionary scales will serve as a road map for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners as they work toward a holistic understanding of life as a primate and the urgent conservation consequences of diet and food availability in a changing world.

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About the Author

Joanna E. Lambert is an evolutionary biologist and professor of animal ecology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she directs the American Canid Project. Margaret A. H. Bryer is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Jessica M. Rothman is professor of anthropology at Hunter College, where she leads the Wildlife Ecology and Nutrition Project and Wildlife Nutritional Ecology Lab.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226829731
ISBN 13 
9780226829739
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
760
Editor
Lambert Joanna E., Bryer Margaret A. H., Rothman Jessica M.

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