Primate locomotion
Subtitle: linking field and laboratory research
By: Kristiaan D'Août, Evie E. Vereecke, editors
Series: Developments in primatology; Developments in primatology
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781441914194; 9781441914200
Subjects: Bipedalism; Locomotion; Primates; Gait
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Primate locomotion : toward a synergy of laboratory and field research  -- Evie Estelle Vereecke and Kristiaan D'Août; title: Translating primate locomotor biomechanical variables from the laboratory to the field  -- Daniel Schmitt; title: Studying captive ape locomotion : past, present, and future  -- Evie E. Vereecke, Kristiaan D'Août, and Peter Aerts; title: Experimental and computational studies of bipedal locomotion in the bipedally trained Japanese macaque  -- Naomichi Ogihara, Eishi Hirasaki, and Masato Nakatsukasa; title: In what manner do quadrupedal primates walk on two legs? : preliminary results on olive baboons (Papio anubis)  -- Gilles Berillon ... [et al.]; title: Scapula movements and their contribution to three-dimensional forelimb excursions in quadrupedal primates  -- Manuela Schmidt and Cornelia Krause; title: The influence of load carrying on gait parameters in humans and apes : implications for the evolution of human bipedalism  -- Jo Watson ... [et al.]; title: Field and experimental approaches to the study of locomotor ontogeny in Propithecus verreauxi  -- Roshna E. Wunderlich, Richard R. Lawler, and Abigail E. Williams; title: Comparisons of limb structural properties in free-ranging chimpanzees from Kibale, Gombe, Mahale, and Taï communities  -- Kristian J. Carlson ... [et al.]; title: Field study methods for primate locomotor ecology and biomechanics  -- Mary L. Blanchard and Robin H. Crompton; title: Gibbon locomotion research in the field : problems, possibilities, and benefits for conservation  -- Susan M. Cheyne; title: Posture, ischial tuberosities, and tree zone use in West African cercopithecids  -- W. Scott McGraw and Paul W. Sciulli; title: Forelimb suspensory gait characteristics of wild Lagothrix poeppigii and Ateles belzebuth : developing video-based methodologies in free-ranging primates  -- Denise Guillot; title: Gait and kinematics of arboreal quadrupedal walking of free-ranging red howlers (Alouatta seniculus) in French Guiana  -- Dionisios Youlatos and Jean-Pierre Gasc; title: From treadmill to tropics : calculating ranging cost in chimpanzees  -- Herman Pontzer, David A. Raichlen, and Michael D. Sockol; title: Linking field and laboratory approaches for studying primate locomotor responses to support orientation  -- Nancy J. Stevens, Jonah H. Ratsimbazafy, and Fidy Ralainasolo; title: Quadrupedal locomotion of Saimiri boliviensis : a comparison of field and laboratory-based kinematic data -- Liza J. Shapiro, Jesse W. Young, and Art Souther.