The Japanese macaques
By: Naofumi Nakagawa, Masayuki Nakamichi, Hideki Sugiura, editors
Series: Primatology monographs
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tokyo; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9784431538851; 9784431538868
Subjects: Macaca; Animal Behavior; Japanese macaque; Macaca fuscata
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: INTRA-SPECIFIC VARIATION : OVERVIEW OF FIELD RESEARCH AND RELATED STUDIES. Research history of Japanese macaques in Japan / Juichi Yamagiwa ; Morphological characteristics, growth, and aging in Japanese macaques / Yuzuru Hamada and Ayumi Yamamoto ; Modes of differentiation in Japanese macaques : perspectives from population genetics / Yoshi Kawamoto; title: INTRA-SPECIFIC VARIATION : ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION. Ecological adaptations of temperate primates : population density of Japanese macaques / Goro Hanya ; Regional, temporal, and interindividual variation in the feeding ecology of Japanese macaques / Yamato Tsuji ; Seed dispersal by Japanese macaques / Tatsuya Otani ; Conservation : present status of the Japanese macaque population and its habitat / Yasuyuki Muroyama and Aya Yamada; title: INTRA-SPECIFIC VARIATION : BEHAVIORS AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS. The ecological design of the affiliative vocal communication style in wild Japanese macaques : behavioral adjustments to social contexts and environments / Hiroki Koda and Hideki Sugiura ; Cultured Japanese macaques : a multidisciplinary approach to stone handling behavior and its implications for the evolution of behavioral tradition in nonhuman primates / Michael A. Huffman, Jean-Baptiste Leca, and Charmalie A.D. Nahallage ; Interaction between male and female mating strategies and factors affecting reproductive outcome / Shiho Fujita ; Lifetime social development in female Japanese macaques / Masayuki Nakamichi and Kazunori Yamada ; Intraspecific differences in social structure of the Japanese macaques : a revival of lost legacy by updated knowledge and perspective / Naofumi Hakagawa; title: RECENT TOPICS FROM UNIQUE APPROACHES. Behavior-related candidate genes in Japanese macaques / Miho Inoue-Murayama ... [et al.] ; Fatty acid content of the plants consumed by Japanese macaques / Akiko Takenaka ... [et al.] ; Toward understanding the role of diet in host-parasite interactions : the case for Japanese macaques / Andrew J.J. MacIntosh and Michael A. Huffman ; Did a habitat bottleneck exist in the recent history of Japanese macaques? / David S. Sprague and Nobusuke Iwasaki ; Resolution of human-macaque conflicts : changing from top-down to community-based damage management / Katsuya Suzuki and Yasuyuki Muroyama ; Social object play among juvenile Japanese macaques / Masaki Shimada ; Japanese macaque society as a complex adaptive system / Nobuyuki Kutsukake.