Overview

Starting with concise species accounts for all the marmoset and tamarin monkeys, this important new book then goes on to review their geographical distributions and still-contested taxonomy, along with comparative reviews of vocalizations, scent-marking, mating systems, infant care and development, social organization, and behaviour and ecology in the wild. As several of these small primates are rare or threatened, these subjects are strongly relevant to their management in captivity as well as for understanding natural populations. This is the first volume for several years to review current knowledge of this family, which comprises 52 species and subspecies found from Panama to northeastern Paraguay to southern Brazil.

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Author:   Anthony B. Rylands (Professor of Vertebrate Zoology, Professor of Vertebrate Zoology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.770kg
ISBN:  

9780198540229

ISBN 10:   0198540221
Pages:   412
Publication Date:   10 June 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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The volume, with its 15 chapters by 27 authors and its nearly 800 references, constitutes an updated milestone for specialists. * Patrizia Messeri, Universita di Firenze, Italy, Tropical Zoology 9: 1996 * this volume is a much needed update and summary of the large body of work that has been completed in the last 15 years ... This volume is a significant step to consolidating current information and is a must for those who work with callitrichids ... between being used for my own work and being lent to others in my department, the Rylands volume has spent little time sitting idly on my shelf. * Leslie Digby, University of California, Animal Behaviour, 49, 2 * 'Extensively referenced at the end of the book and fully indexed.' Aslib Book Guide, vol. 59, no. 6, June 1994 'Anthony Rylands and his contributors have provided primatology with an updated theme-oriented approach to callitrichid biology which, without doubt, (1) represents an unrivalled comparative synthesis of our understanding of the systematics, ecology and behaviour of this primate (sub)family, and (2) will become the starting point of many a research hypothesis concerning the causes and adaptive functions of callitrichid biology over the next 10 years and beyond. The book is remarkable in terms of the amount of information and interpretations and hypotheses that it contains.' Christopher Pryce, Universitat Zurich, Primate eye, No. 53, June 1994

'Anthony Rylands and his contributors have provided primatology with an updated theme-oriented approach to callitrichid biology which, without doubt, (1) represents an unrivalled comparative synthesis of our understanding of the systematics, ecology and behaviour of this primate (sub)family, and (2) will become the starting point of many a research hypothesis concerning the causes and adaptive functions of callitrichid biology over the next 10 years and beyond. The book is remarkable in terms of the amount of information and interpretations and hypotheses that it contains.' Christopher Pryce, Universitat Zurich, Primate eye, No. 53, June 1994 'Extensively referenced at the end of the book and fully indexed.' Aslib Book Guide, vol. 59, no. 6, June 1994 `this volume is a much needed update and summary of the large body of work that has been completed in the last 15 years ... This volume is a significant step to consolidating current information and is a must for those who work with callitrichids ... between being used for my own work and being lent to others in my department, the Rylands volume has spent little time sitting idly on my shelf.' Leslie Digby, University of California, Animal Behaviour, 49, 2 `The volume, with its 15 chapters by 27 authors and its nearly 800 references, constitutes an updated milestone for specialists.' Patrizia Messeri, Universita di Firenze, Italy, Tropical Zoology 9: 1996

'Anthony Rylands and his contributors have provided primatology with an updated theme-oriented approach to callitrichid biology which, without doubt, (1) represents an unrivalled comparative synthesis of our understanding of the systematics, ecology and behaviour of this primate (sub)family, and (2) will become the starting point of many a research hypothesis concerning the causes and adaptive functions of callitrichid biology over the next 10 years and beyond. The book is remarkable in terms of the amount of information and interpretations and hypotheses that it contains.' Christopher Pryce, Universitat Zurich, Primate eye, No. 53, June 1994 'Extensively referenced at the end of the book and fully indexed.' Aslib Book Guide, vol. 59, no. 6, June 1994 this volume is a much needed update and summary of the large body of work that has been completed in the last 15 years ... This volume is a significant step to consolidating current information and is a must for those who work with callitrichids ... between being used for my own work and being lent to others in my department, the Rylands volume has spent little time sitting idly on my shelf. Leslie Digby, University of California, Animal Behaviour, 49, 2 The volume, with its 15 chapters by 27 authors and its nearly 800 references, constitutes an updated milestone for specialists. Patrizia Messeri, Universita di Firenze, Italy, Tropical Zoology 9: 1996

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