Manipulative Monkeys
Subtitle: The Capuchins of Lomas Barbudal
Contributors: Joseph H. Manson (Contributor)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: February 5, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780674026643
Subjects: Primates; Political Science; Nature; Politics/International Relations; Apes & Monkeys; Life Sciences - Zoology - Primatology; Nature / Apes & Monkeys; History - General; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Political Ideologies - General; Behavior; Capuchin monkeys; Costa Rica; Reserva Biolâogica Lomas Barbudal
Description: "Manipulative Monkeys takes us into a Costa Rican forest teeming with simian drama, where since 1990 primatologists Susan Perry and Joseph H. Manson have followed the lives of four generations of capuchin monkeys. What the authors describe is behavior as entertaining - and occasionally as alarming - as it is recognisable: the competition and cooperation, the jockeying for position and status, the peaceful years under an alpha male devolving into bloody chaos, and the complex traditions passed from one generation to the next. Interspersed with their observations of the monkeys' lives are the authors' colorful tales of the challenges of tropical fieldwork - a mixture so rich that by the book's end we know what it is to be a wild capuchin monkey or a field primatologist. And we are left with a clear sense of the importance of these endangered monkeys for understanding human behavioral evolution."--Jacket.