Marmosets and Tamarins - Systematics, Behaviour, and Ecology

Starting with concise species accounts for all the marmoset and tamarin monkeys, this 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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony B. Rylands
• Assisted by: Anthony B. Rylands (Editor), Anthony B. (Professor of Vertebrate Zoology Rylands (Editor), Rylands Anthony B. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.06.1993
• EAN: 9780198540229
• ISBN: 978-0-19-854022-9
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 770 g
• Illustrations: halftones, line figures, tables
• Series: Oxford Science Publications
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology, Animal behaviour, Animal Ecology, Taxonomy & systematics, Zoology and animal sciences, Primates, Zoology: primates (primatology), Taxonomy and systematics