Long-Term Field Studies of Primates
Some primate field studies have been on-going for decades, covering significant portions of individual life cycles or even multiple generations. In this volume, leading field workers report on the history and infrastructure of their projects in Madagascar
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Peter M. Kappeler • David P. Watts Editors
Long-Term Field Studies of Primates
Editors Prof. Dr. Peter M. Kappeler Department of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology German Primate Center Kellnerweg 4 37077 G€ottingen Germany [email protected]
Dr. David P. Watts Yale University Department of Anthropology Sachem Street 10 06520-8277 New Haven Connecticut USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-642-22513-0 e-ISBN 978-3-642-22514-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-22514-7 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011944014 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
In memoriam Toshisada Nishida (1941–2011)
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Preface
This edited volume features a collection of essays discussing the virtues and challenges of conducting long-term field projects on wild primate populations in Madagascar, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. All of these projects have been ongoing for a significant portion of the respective species’ life cycle; some of them already cover multiple generations. Taken together, the contributions to this volume represent all major primate radiations and therefore provide a representative sample of taxon-specific opportunities and challenges of this type of research. Still, not all important long-term studies could be included in this volume, with the absence of specific chapters on nocturnal primates perhaps the most important omission. In contrast, some taxa, such as sifakas, capuchin monkeys, and chimpanzees, are covered in more than one chapter. In each case, the comparison revealed striking differences between study sites and populations, emphasizing the perhaps not so obvious fact that single long-term studies are apparently not sufficient to document the full range of species-typical life history adaptations and variation in social systems. Continuous observations of habituated and individually recognizable primates originated with Imanishi’s project on Japanese macaques in the late 1940s. Some of the projects described in this volume originated in the 1960s. Gombe, Amboseli, Berenty, Caratinga, Koshima, and Ketambe are names familiar to al
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