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Howler Monkeys

Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Martín M. Kowalewski

    1. Estación Biológica Corrientes, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina

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  2. Paul A. Garber

    1. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

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  3. Liliana Cortés-Ortiz

    1. Museum of Zoology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

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  4. Bernardo Urbani

    1. Centro de Antropología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela

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  5. Dionisios Youlatos

    1. Department of Zoology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece

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  • Examines howler behavior and ecology within a comparative framework
  • Examines behavioral and physiological mechanisms that enable howler monkeys to exploit highly disturbed and fragmented habitats
  • Presents models of howler monkey diet, social organization, and mating systems that can inform researchers studying Old World colobines, apes, and other tropical mammals
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects (DIPR)

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Howler monkeys (genus Alouatta) comprise twelve species of leaf-eating New World monkeys that range from southern Mexico through northern Argentina. This genus is the most widespread of any New World primate taxa, and can be found to inhabit a range of forest types from undisturbed rainforest to severely anthropogenically impacted forest fragments. Although there have been many studies on individual species of howler monkeys, this book is the first comprehensive volume to place information on howler behavior and biology within a theoretical framework of ecological and social adaptability. This is the second of two volumes devoted to the genus Alouatta.

This volume:

·         Examines behavioral and physiological mechanisms that enable howler monkeys to exploit highly disturbed and fragmented habitats

·         Presents models of howler monkey diet, social organization, and mating systems that can also inform researchers studying Old World colobines, apes, and other tropical mammals

These goals are achieved in a collection of chapters written by a distinguished group of scientists on the feeding ecology, behavior, mating strategies, and management and conservation of howlers. This book also contains chapters on the howler microbiome, the concept of behavioral variability, sexual selection, and the role of primates in forest regeneration.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Back Matter

    Pages 429-440
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Estación Biológica Corrientes, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina

    Martín M. Kowalewski

  • Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

    Paul A. Garber

  • Museum of Zoology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

    Liliana Cortés-Ortiz

  • Centro de Antropología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela

    Bernardo Urbani

  • Department of Zoology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece

    Dionisios Youlatos

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Howler Monkeys

  • Book Subtitle: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation

  • Editors: Martín M. Kowalewski, Paul A. Garber, Liliana Cortés-Ortiz, Bernardo Urbani, Dionisios Youlatos

  • Series Title: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1960-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

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

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-1959-8Published: 05 December 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5603-6Published: 22 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-1960-4Published: 04 December 2014

  • Series ISSN: 1574-3489

  • Series E-ISSN: 1574-3497

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 440

  • Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Animal Ecology, Behavioral Sciences, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Zoology

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