On the move : how and why animals travel in groups /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Boinski, Sue, Garber, Paul Alan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Subjects:
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.