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The Gibbons

New Perspectives on Small Ape Socioecology and Population Biology

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Editors:
  1. Danielle Whittaker
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  2. Susan Lappan
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  • A reference resource for researchers and students interested in the small apes specifically, as well as researchers interested in the gibbon perspective on a number of theoretical issues in primatology
  • 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 (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Diversity of Small Apes and the Importance of Population-Level Studies

      • Danielle J. Whittaker, Susan Lappan
      Pages 3-10

  3. Biogeography

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Evolutionary Relationships Among the Gibbons: A Biogeographic Perspective

      • Helen J. Chatterjee
      Pages 13-36

    3. Genetic Differentiation of Agile Gibbons Between Sumatra and Kalimantan in Indonesia

      • Hirohisa Hirai, Azusa Hayano, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Alan R. Mootnick, Hery Wijayanto, Dyah Perwitasari-Farajallah
      Pages 37-49

    4. Vocal Diversity of Kloss’s Gibbons (Hylobates Klossii) in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia

      • Sally A. Keith, Melissa S. Waller, Thomas Geissmann
      Pages 51-71

    5. Phylogeography of Kloss’s Gibbon (Hylobates Klossii) Populations and Implications for Conservation Planning in the Mentawai Islands

      • Danielle J. Whittaker
      Pages 73-89

    6. Individual and Geographical Variability in the Songs of Wild Silvery Gibbons (Hylobates Moloch) on Java, Indonesia

      • Robert Dallmann, Thomas Geissmann
      Pages 91-110

    7. The Fossil Record of Gibbons

      • Nina G. Jablonski, George Chaplin
      Pages 111-130

  6. Mating Systems and Reproduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-277
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    2. Monogamy in Mammals: Expanding the Perspective on Hylobatid Mating Systems

      • Luca Morino
      Pages 279-311
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About this book

It is a great honor to be asked to introduce this exciting new volume, having been heavily involved in the first comprehensive synthesis in the early 1980s. Gibbons are the most enthralling of primates. On the one hand, they are the most appealing animals, with their upright posture and body shape, facial markings, dramatic arm-swinging locomotion and suspensory postures, and devastating duets; on the other hand, the small apes are the most diverse, hence biologically valuable and informative, of our closest relatives. It is hard for me to believe that it is 40 years to the month since I first set foot on the Malay Peninsula to start my doctoral study of the siamang. I am very proud to have followed in the footsteps of the great pioneer of primate field study, Clarence Ray Carpenter (CR or Ray, who I was fortunate to meet twice, in Pennsylvania and in Zurich), first in Central America (in 1967) and then in Southeast Asia. It is 75 years since he studied howler monkeys on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal Zone. It is 70 years since he studied the white-handed gibbon in Thailand.

Reviews

From the reviews:

“This volume is based on symposia held in 2002 and 2004, which focused on aspects of gibbon behavior, ecology, conservation, and biogeography, plus analyses of their fossil record and interspecific evolutionary relationships. … it is wonderful to see the range of colleagues from countries ‘hosting’ gibbons, fully engaged in their study. Summing Up: Recommended. Academic audiences, upper-division undergraduates and above.” (E. Delson, Choice, Vol. 47 (3), November, 2009)

“This well-written and insightful edited volume is based on symposia from the 2002 and 2004 International Primatological Society Congresses. Its editors accurately argue that gibbons have not received as much attention as great apes. … By providing the most up-to-date review of hylobatid biogeography, dietary ecology, social organization, and conservation, this volume does an outstanding job in significantly adding to our knowledge of small apes.” (Herbert H. Covert, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Vol. 143, 2010)

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Gibbons

  • Book Subtitle: New Perspectives on Small Ape Socioecology and Population Biology

  • Editors: Danielle Whittaker, Susan Lappan

  • Series Title: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88604-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-88603-9Published: 16 June 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2782-8Published: 06 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-88604-6Published: 02 June 2009

  • Series ISSN: 1574-3489

  • Series E-ISSN: 1574-3497

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 526

  • Number of Illustrations: 87 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Zoology

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