On the move : how and why animals travel in groups /
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Chicago :
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2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Unraveling the complexities of group travel
- Pt. 1. Ecological costs and benefits
- The physiology and energetics of movement: effects on individuals and groups / Karen Steudel
- Determinants of group size in primates: the importance of travel costs / Colin A. Chapman, Lauren J. Chapman
- A critical evaluation of the influence of predators on primates: effects on group travel / Sue Boinski, Adrian Treves, Colin A. Chapman
- Mixed-species association and group movement / Marina Cords
- Territorial defense and the ecology of group movements in small-bodied neotropical primates / Carlos A. Peres
- Pt. 2. Cognitive abilities, possibilities, and constraints
- Group movement and individual cognition: lessons from social insects / Fred C. Dyer
- Spatial movement strategies: theory, evidence, and challenges / Charles Janson
- Primate brain evolution: cognitive demands of foraging or of social life? / Robert A. Barton
- Animal movement as a group-level adaptation / David Sloan Wilson
- Pt. 3. Travel decisions
- Evidence for the use of spatial, temporal, and social information by primate foragers / Paul A. Garber
- Homing and detour behavior in golden lion tamarin social groups / Charles R. Menzel, Benjamin B. Beck
- Comparative movement patterns of two semiterrestrial cercopithecine primates: the Tana River crested mangabey and the Sulawesi crested black macaque / Margaret F. Kinnaird, Timothy G. O'Brien
- Mountain gorilla habitat use strategies and group movements / David P. Watts
- Quo vadis? Tactics of food search and group movement in primates and other animals / Katharine Milton
- Pt. 4. Social processes
- Social manipulation within and between troops mediates primate group movement / Sue Boinski
- Grouping and movement patterns in Malagasy primates / Peter M. Kappeler
- How monkeys find their way: leadership, coordination, and cognitive maps of African baboons / Richard W. Byrne
- Pt. 5. Group movement from a wider taxonomic perspective
- Birds of many feathers: the formation and structure of mixed-species flocks of forest birds / Russell Greenberg
- Keeping in touch at sea: group movement in dolphins and whales / Rachel Smolker
- Group travel in social carnivores / Kay E. Holekamp, Erin E. Boydston, Laura Smale
- Ecological correlates of home range variation in primates: implications for hominid evolution / William R. Leonard, Marcia L. Robertson
- Patterns and processes of group movement in human nomadic populations: a case study of the Turkana of northwestern Kenya / J. Terrence McCabe
- New directions for group movement / Sue Boinski, Paul A. Garber
- Appendix: Classification of living primates.