Eat or be Eaten

Eat or be Eaten: Predator Sensitive Foraging Among Primates

by Miller, Lynne E

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Predator sensitive foraging is about balancing the need to eat against the need to avoid being eaten. Eat or be Eaten explores all the available information from fieldwork and the laboratory to broaden our understanding of this complex but fascinating field.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Eat or be Eaten : Predator Sensitive Foraging Among Primates.

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Predator sensitive foraging is about balancing the need to eat against the need to avoid being eaten. Eat or be Eaten explores all the available information from fieldwork and the laboratory to broaden our understanding of this complex but fascinating field.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2002.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (311 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1107131065, 9781107131064, 1280955872, 9781280955877, 9786610955879, 6610955875, 0511206364, 9780511206368, 0511351380, 9780511351389, 0511077955, 9780511077951, 0511561377, 9780511561375, 0511610238, 9780511610233, 9780521804516, 0521804515, 9780521011044, 0521011043
  • oclc:on1162033714
  • LC Classification:QL737.P9 E24 2002eb
  • Dewey Decimal:599.8153

Table of Contents

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 An introduction to predator sensitive foraging; Vulnerability, perceived risk and foraging decisions; Biological variables; Social variables; Environmental variables; REFERENCES; 2 Dangers in the night: Are some nocturnal primates afraid of the dark?; 3 Predation sensitive foraging in captive tamarins; 4 Seeing red: Consequences of individual differences in color vision in callitrichid primates; 5 Predator sensitive foraging in Thomas langurs

6 The role of group size in predator sensitive foraging decisions for wedge-capped capuchin monkeys (Cebus olivaceus)7 Group size effects on predation sensitive foraging in wild ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta); 8 Species differences in feeding in Milne Edward's sifakas (Propithecus diadema edwardsi), rufus lemurs (Eulemur fulvus ... ; 9 Evidence of predator sensitive foraging and traveling in single- and mixed-species tamarin troops; 10 Predator (in)sensitive foraging in sympatric female vervets (Cercopithecus aethiops) and patas monkeys (Erythrocebus ...

11 Predation risk and antipredator adaptations in white-faced sakis, Pithecia pithecia12 Foraging female baboons ex…

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Subjects

Animal behavior Animals Animaux -- Moeurs et comportement Appetitive Behavior Behavior Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms Behavior, Animal Chordata Chordata (phylum) Comportement d'appétence (Éthologie) Comportement humain Cordés Eukaryota Health & Biological Sciences human behavior Mammalia (class) Mammals Mammifères Organisms Prédation (Biologie)

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Miller, Lynne E Miller, Lynne E

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