Synopses & Reviews
Indispensable guide to the technical and practical aspects of field and laboratory methods for studying wild primates.
Review
"This outstanding collection of papers on field methods in the study of primate biology may be the most important reference for primatologists for the forseeable future.... Essential." Choice
Synopsis
A practical manual for all those studying wild primates, this book covers everything from trip-planning, ethics and health issues to practical details of how to find, habituate and study primates in the wild. It will be an invaluable tool for students and researchers in primatology, behavioural ecology and zoology.
Table of Contents
1. Human-nonhuman primate interactions: an ethnoprimatological approach Lisa Jones-Engel, Michael A. Schillaci and Gregory A. Engel; 2. Habituating primates: processes, techniques, variables and ethics Elizabeth A. Williamson and Anna T. C. Feistner; 3. Habitat description and phenology Jörg U. Ganzhorn; 4. The Global Positioning System, Geographical Information Systems and remote sensing Karel Hughes; 5. Monitoring local weather and climate Julian Mayes; 6. Survey and census methods: population distribution and density Caroline Ross and Nigel Reeve; 7. Trapping Clifford J. Jolly, Jane E. Phillips-Conroy and Alexandra E. Müller; 8. Handling, anaesthesia, health evaluation and biological sampling Marc Ancrenaz, Joanna M. Setchell and Deborah J. Curtis; 9. Morphology, morphometrics and taxonomy Colin Groves and Joanne Harding; 10. Marking and radio-tracking Paul E. Honess and David W. MacDonald; 11. Feeding ecology and seed dispersal J. Lawrence Dew; 12. Dietary analysis I: food physics Peter W. Lucas, Daniel Osorio, Nayuta Yamashita, Jonathan F. Prinz, Nathaniel J. Dominy and Brian W. Darvell; 13. Dietary analysis II: food chemistry Peter W. Lucas, Richard T. Corlett, Nathaniel J. Dominy, Hafejee C. Essackjee, Pablo Riba-Hernandez, Kathryn E. Stoner and Nayuta Yamashita; 14. Collecting arthropods and arthropod remains for primate studies Claire M. P. Ozanne and James R. Bell; 15. Tape-recording primate vocalisations Thomas Geissmann; 16. Photography and video for field researchers Noel Rowe and Marc Myers; 17. Chronological aspects of primate research Hans G. Erkert; 18. Thermoregulation and energetics Jutta Schmid; 19. Field endocrinology: monitoring hormonal changes in free-ranging primates J. Keith Hodges and Michael Heistermann; 20. Collection, storage and analysis of non-invasive genetic material in primate biology Benoît Goossens, Nicola Anthony, Kathryn Jeffery, Mireille Johnson-Bawe and Michael W. Bruford; 21. Tips from the bush: an A-Z of suggestions for successful fieldwork Simon K. Bearder, K. A. I. Nekaris, Deborah J. Curtis, J. Lawrence Dew, Julia N. Lloyd and Joanna M. Setchell.