Considerable interspecific variation in female social relationships occurs in gregarious
primates, particularly with regard to agonism and cooperation between females and to the …

Because primates display such remarkable diversity, they are an ideal taxon within which to
examine the evolutionary significance of group living and the ecological factors responsible …

Renewed interest in fission-fusion dynamics is due to the recognition that such dynamics
may create unique challenges for social interaction and distinctive selective pressures …

The social organization of spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) and chimpanzees (Pan
troglodytes) appear remarkably similar. In this paper, field studies of these two species were …

Tropical deforestation and forest fragmentation are among the most important biodiversity
conservation issues worldwide, yet local extinctions of millions of animal and plant …

This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

This paper attempts to reconcile views from social anthropology, primatology, and human
sociobiology in a summary of the distinctive features of human social organization. Primate …

The objectives of this 27 month study were to document the positional behaviors used by
lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the Central African Republic and to compare the …

The assessment of fruit abundance is critical for studies of frugivore ecology A variety of
methods have been used to estimate habitat-wide fruit abundance. However, since the …

Anthropological interest in nonhuman primates as models for human behavioral evolution
has tended to focus on a relatively small number of species. This emphasis, coupled with a …