Chimpanzee and red colobus
Subtitle: the ecology of predator and prey
By: Craig B. Stanford.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Chimpanzees -- Ecology; Chimpanzees -- Behavior; Red colobus monkey -- Ecology; Red colobus monkey -- Behavior; Predation (Biology)
Description: Our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, are familiar enough - bright and ornery and promiscuous. But they also kill and eat their kin, in this case the red colobus monkey, which may say something about primate - even hominid - evolution. This book, the first detailed account of a predator-prey relationship involving two wild primates, documents a six-year investigation into how the risk of predation molds primate society.

Taking us to Gombe National Park in Tanzania, a place made famous by Jane Goodall's studies, the book offers a close look at how predation by wild chimpanzees - observable in the park as nowhere else - has influenced the behavior, ecology, and demography of a population of red colobus monkeys.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.