Format:
Online-Ressource (XVIII, 534p. 93 illus., 6 illus. in color, digital)
ISBN:
9781441974037
Series Statement:
Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects 35
Content:
The Gashaka Primate Project has grown into one of the largest research and conservation activities in West Africa. At present, it keeps going on the initiative of the editors of this volume and their academic home institutions. The appearance of this volume marks the 10th anniversary of the Gashaka Primate Project
Content:
The Gashaka Primate Project has grown into one of the largest research and conservation activities in West Africa. At present, it keeps going on the initiative of the editors of this volume and their academic home institutions. The appearance of this volume marks the 10th anniversary of the Gashaka Primate Project
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Primates of Gashaka; Foreword; Contents; Contributors; Bio-Sketches; Chapter 1: Exploring and Protecting West Africa's Primates: The Gashaka Primate Project in Context; Chapter 2: To Save a Wilderness: The Creation and Development of Gashaka Gumti National Park, Nigeria; Chapter 3: Hunters, Fire, Cattle: Conservation Challenges in Eastern Nigeria, with Special Reference to Chimpanzees; Chapter 4: Monkeys and Apes as Animals and Humans: Ethno-Primatology in Nigeria's Taraba Region
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Chapter 5: The Bush as Pharmacy and Supermarket: Mechanisms and Functions of Plant Use by Human and Non-human Primates at GashakaChapter 6: Fulani of the Highlands: Costs and Benefits of Living in National Park Enclaves; Chapter 7: Pan-African Voyagers: The Phylogeography of Baboons; Chapter 8: Crop-raiding and Commensalism in Olive Baboons: The Costs and Benefits of Living with Humans; Chapter 9: How Different Are Gashaka's Baboons? Forest and Open Country Populations Compared; Chapter 10: Keeping in Contact: Flexibility in Calls of Olive Baboons
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Chapter 11: Not Words but Meanings? Alarm Calling Behaviour in a Forest GuenonChapter 12: Patriarchal Chimpanzees, Matriarchal Bonobos: Potential Ecological Causes of a Pan Dichotomy; Chapter 13: Panthropology of the Fourth Chimpanzee: A Contribution to Cultural Primatology; Chapter 14: Will the Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee Go Extinct? Models Derived from Intake Rates of Ape Sanctuaries; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441974020
Additional Edition:
Buchausg. u.d.T. ISBN 978-1-441-97402-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4419-7403-7
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