Exploring everything from nutrients to food acquisition and research methods, a comprehensive synthesis of the study of food and feeding in nonhuman primates.
What do we mean when we say that a diet is nutritious? Why is it that some animals can get all the energy they need from eating leaves while others would perish on such a diet? Why don't mountain gorillas eat fruit all day like chimpanzees do? Answers to these questions about food and feeding are among the many tasty morsels that emerge from this authoritative book. Informed by the latest scientific tools and millions of hours of field and laboratory work on species across the primate order and around the globe, this volume is an exhaustive synthesis of our understanding of what, why, and how primates eat what they eat. State-of-the-art information presented at physiological, behavioral, ecological, and evolutionary scales will serve as a road map for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners as they work toward a holistic understanding of life as a primate and the urgent conservation consequences of diet and food availability in a changing world.
Afterword by:
Alison Richard
Foreword by:
T. H. Clutton-Brock
Edited by:
Joanna E. Lambert,
Margaret A. H. Bryer,
Jessica M. Rothman
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 279mm,
Width: 216mm,
Spine: 51mm
Weight: 1.987kg
ISBN: 9780226829739
ISBN 10: 0226829731
Pages: 760
Publication Date: 26 July 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword T. H. Clutton-Brock Preface Joanna E. Lambert, Margaret A. H. Bryer, and Jessica M. Rothman Introduction: From Diets to Disturbance: The Evolution of Primate Feeding Studies David J. Chivers and Kim R. McConkey Part I. Finding, Building, and Using a Diet Chapter 1: The Role of Macro- and Micronutrients in Primate Food Choice Annika Felton and Joanna E. Lambert Chapter 2: What Extant Primates Eat: A Global Survey Joseph E. Hawes, Carlos A. Peres, and Andrew C. Smith Chapter 3: The First Diet: Mother’s Milk Katie Hinde, Lauren A. Milligan, and Gregory E. Blomquist Chapter 4: Diet and the Energetics of Reproduction Melissa Emery Thompson Chapter 5: Primate Energy Requirements: Brains, Babies, or Behavior? Alexandra R. DeCasien, Mary H. Brown, Stephen R. Ross, and Herman Pontzer Chapter 6: Primate Senses: Finding and Evaluating Food Amanda D. Melin and Carrie C. Veilleux Chapter 7: Seasonality in Food Availability and Energy Intake Cheryl D. Knott and Andrea L. DiGiorgio Part II. Nutrients, Nutrition, and Food Processing Chapter 8: Enzymes and Microbes of the Mammalian Gut: Toward an Integrated Understanding of Digestion Joanna E. Lambert, Richard Mutegeki, and Katherine R. Amato Chapter 9: Secondary Compounds in Primate Foods: Time for New Approaches Eleanor M. Stalenberg, Jörg U. Ganzhorn, and William J. Foley Chapter 10: Hormonally Active Phytochemicals in Primate Diets: Prevalence across the Order Michael Wasserman, Marie-Lyne Després-Einspenner, Richard Mutegeki, and Tessa Steiniche Chapter 11: Nutrition and Immune Function in Primates Erin R. Vogel, Astri Zulfa, Sri Suci Utami Atmoko, and Lyle L. Moldawer Chapter 12: Nutrition and Primate Life History Carola Borries and Andreas Koenig Part III. Food Acquisition and Nutrition in Social Environments Chapter 13: Social Food Competition, Then and Now Charles H. Janson Chapter 14: Applying a Framework of Social Nutrition to Primate Behavioral Ecology Margaret A. H. Bryer and Moreen Uwimbabazi Chapter 15: Primate Cognitive Ecology: Challenges and Solutions to Locating and Acquiring Resources in Social Foragers Paul A. Garber Chapter 16: Feeding-Related Tool Use in Primates: S Systematic Overview Jill D. Pruetz, Landing Badji, Stephanie L. Bogart, Stacy M. Lindshield, Papa Ibnou Ndiaye, and Kristina R. Walkup Chapter 17: Hunting by Primates David Watts Chapter 18: Movement Ecology and Feeding Neighborhoods Margaret C. Crofoot and Shauhin E. Alavi Chapter 19: Foraging in a Landscape of Fear Russell Hill Chapter 20: Behavioral Flexibility and Diet A. J. Hardie and Karen B. Strier Part IV. Methods, Practice, and Application Chapter 21: Measuring Food in the Field Eckhard W. Heymann Chapter 22: Wild Plant Food Chemistry Nancy Lou Conklin-Brittain Chapter 23: Evaluating Primate Diets with Stable Isotopes Matt Sponheimer and Brooke Crowley Chapter 24: Mechanical Properties of Primate Foods Adam van Casteren and Peter Lucas Chapter 25: Modeling Primate Nutrition David Raubenheimer Chapter 26: Reconstructing Fossil Primate Diets: Dental-Dietary Adaptations and Foodprints for Thought Peter S. Ungar Chapter 27: Food and Primate Carrying Capacity Andrew J. Marshall Chapter 28: Climate Change and Primate Nutritional Ecology Jessica M. Rothman, John B. Makombo, and Mitchell T. Irwin Chapter 29: Primate Foraging Strategies Modulate Responses to Anthropogenic Change and Thus Primate Conservation Colin A. Chapman, Kim Valenta, Fabiola Espinosa-Gómez, Amélie Corriveau, and Sarah Bortolamiol Afterword Alison Richard Acknowledgments Literature Cited List of Contributors Index
Joanna E. Lambert is an evolutionary biologist and professor of animal ecology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she directs the American Canid Project. Margaret A. H. Bryer is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Jessica M. Rothman is professor of anthropology at Hunter College, where she leads the Wildlife Ecology and Nutrition Project and Wildlife Nutritional Ecology Lab.
Reviews for How Primates Eat: A Synthesis of Nutritional Ecology across a Mammal Order
“This work absolutely is essential for graduate training in primatology. More broadly, because primate diets and ecology are better understood than those of any other mammalian order, the findings are relevant to understanding the feeding ecology of Mammalia. As a professional, I will have a copy on my shelf and will consult it often. This is one of the best and most tightly themed science books I have seen. It will be cited repeatedly and will be a gateway for the study of primate dietary ecology.” -- Richard Frederick Kay, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University “How Primates Eat is, at the same time, a masterly synthesis of current knowledge of primate nutritional ecology, a celebration of all that has been achieved over the last 50 years, and a road map for future research.” -- T. H. Clutton-Brock, from the foreword “This is an amazing book. . . . Where once the study of primate feeding (and, with rare exceptions, it was mainly just that) meant collecting observations of behavior, today it (routinely, I’m tempted to say) encompasses energetics and nutrition, hormones and microbiomes, phytochemistry and physiology as well. . . . The journey is far from over, as the editors signal in their preface, but this book is surely a major milestone along the way.” -- Alison Richard, from the afterword
