Overview
- Provides the first comprehensive analysis of gibbon and siamang cognition
- Revisits unresolved questions about the evolution of the unique gibbon morphology in the context of locomotor adaptations and dwarfing
- Brings new insight into gibbon diet and community ecology, mating systems and reproduction, and conservation biology
- 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 (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Gibbon and Siamang Phylogeny
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Evolution of Gibbon and Siamang Morphology and Locomotion
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Gibbon and Siamang Cognition
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Keywords
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
CLAUDIA BARELLI is a primatologist and conservation scientist with a PhD in biology on female gibbons’ reproductive strategies. She is currently a research fellow at MUSE - Science Museum in Trento, Italy. Her major research interests integrated morphological and behavioral studies with genetics, endocrinology and parasitology to address questions relating to reproductive strategies, life history, signaling, sexual selection and evolution in primates. A second focus of her research involves conservation physiology with emphasis on developing multidisciplinary methods that integrate population ecology with metagenomics and physiological approaches for the rapid assessment of threatened populations to address questions concerning human/wildlife interactions and biodiversity conservation.
HIROHISA HIRAI is a Professor of Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, and Former Director of the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, Japan. His primary research interests are in molecular cytogenetics and chromosome evolution in primates. Especially, he is interested in constitutive heterochromatin, rDNA genomic dispersion, centromere and telomere of hylobatids, hominids, and platyrrhines.
ULRICH H. REICHARD is Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, U.S.A. He co-authored Monogamy: Mating Strategies and Partnerships in Birds, Humans and other Mammals (2003). His research interests are wide, spanning topics related to the ecology, behavior, and cognition of primates, particularly small apes, with the purpose of finding answers to questions about what makes us human. For nearly thirty years his empirical work has focused on the primate community of Khao Yai National Park, Thailand, where he and his team of students and colleagues study the life history, vocal communication, and spatial intelligence of white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar). Current investigations also involve reproductive strategies of male and female northern pig-tailed macaques (Macaca leonina).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evolution of Gibbons and Siamang
Book Subtitle: Phylogeny, Morphology, and Cognition
Editors: Ulrich H. Reichard, Hirohisa Hirai, Claudia Barelli
Series Title: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-5614-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5612-8Published: 19 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-8165-6Published: 14 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-5614-2Published: 19 August 2016
Series ISSN: 1574-3489
Series E-ISSN: 1574-3497
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 366
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Animal Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Neurobiology, Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology