Primate Conservation

Prince Rainer III

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780125761505
• eBook ISBN: 9780323143608
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Zoology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Primate Conservation provides a comprehensive discussion of the conservation of many species of nonhuman primates. The problems of conservation are discussed by distinguished scientists who are experts in their knowledge of the animals they write about and who have firsthand knowledge of the problems of conserving them. Animals ranging from Galago to the Gorilla have been selected to serve as examples of the types of problems that conservationists face. The book begins by discussing the ecology of two species of galagine in South Africa. It covers factors such as their distribution, habitat, population densities, activity patterns, feeding, group structure, and reproduction. This is followed by separate chapters on the conservation of the following: aye-aye; the lion tamarins of Brazil; the Peruvian yellow-tailed woolly monkey; the toque macaque of Sri Lanka; rare lion-tailed monkey of South India; rhesus monkeys in Northern India; the gelada baboons; the hanuman langur and douc langur; red ouakaris; black colobus monkeys; lesser apes; and eastern gorillas.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Primate Conservation
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Chapter 1. The Galagines of South Africa
• Chapter 2. The Aye-Aye
• Chapter 3. Conservation of the Brazilian Lion Tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia)
• Chapter 4. Rediscovery and Conservation of the Peruvian Yellow-Tailed Woolly Monkey (Lagothrix flavicauda)
• Chapter 5. Primate Conservation in Brazilian Amazonia
• Chapter 6. The Red Ouakari in a Seminatural Environment: Potentials for Propagation and Study
• Chapter 7. The Socioecological Basis for the Conservation of the Toque Monkey (Macacasinica) of Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
• Chapter 8. The Status of the Barbary Macaque Macaca sylvanus in Captivity and Factors Influencing Its Distribution in the Wild
• Chapter 9. The Lion-Tailed Monkey and Its South Indian Rain Forest Habitat
• Chapter 10. Population Dynamics of Rhesus Monkeys in Northern India
• Chapter 11. The Gelada Baboon: Status and Conservation
• Chapter 12. The Baboon
• Chapter 13. The Guereza and Man: How Man Has Affected the Distribution and Abundance of Colobus guereza and Other Black Colobus Monkeys
• Chapter 14. Presbytis entellus, The Hanuman Langur
• Chapter 15. The Douc Langur: A Time for Conservation
• Chapter 16. The Lesser Apes
• Chapter 17. The Conservation of Eastern Gorillas
• Subject Index
• Taxonomic Index