Primates of Gashaka
Subtitle: socioecology and conservation in Nigeria's biodiversity hotspot
By: Volker Sommer, Caroline Ross, editors
Series: Developments in primatology; Developments in primatology
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 531
ISBN-13: 9781441974020
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Ecology; Conservation; Primates; Behavior; Biodiversity conservation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Exploring and protecting West Africa's primates : the Gashaka Primate Project in context / Volker Sommer and Caroline Ross; title: To save a wilderness : the creation and development of Gashaka Gumti National Park, Nigeria / Richard Barnwell; title: Hunters, fire, cattle : conservation challenges in eastern Nigeria, with special reference to chimpanzees / Jeremiah Adanu, Volker Sommer, and Andrew Fowler; title: Monkeys and apes as animals and humans : ethno-primatology in Nigeria's Taraba region / Gilbert Nyanganji, ... [et al.]; title: The bush as pharmacy and supermarket : mechanisms and functions of plant use by human and non-human primates at Gashaka / Yianna Koutsioni and Volker Sommer; title: Fulani of the highlands : costs and benefits of living in national park enclaves / David Bennett and Caroline Ross; title: Pan-African voyagers : the phylogeography of baboons / Dietmar Zinner, ... [et al.]; title: Crop-raiding and commensalism in olive baboons : the costs and benefits of living with humans / Ymke Warren, ... [et al.]; title: How different are Gashaka's baboons? Forest and open country populations compared / Caroline Ross, ... [et al.]; title: Keeping in contact : flexibility in calls of olive baboons / Elodie Ey and Julia Fischer; title: Not words but meanings? Alarm calling behaviour in a forest guenon / Kate Arnold, Yvonne Pohlner, and Klaus Zuberbühler; title: Patriarchal chimpanzees, matriarchal bonobos : potential ecological causes of a Pan dichotomy / Volker Sommer, ... [et al.]; title: Panthropology of the fourth chimpanzee : a contribution to cultural primatology / Andrew Fowler, ... [et al.]; title: Will the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee go extinct? Models derived from intake rates of ape sanctuaries / Nicola Hughes, ... [et al.].