How Primates Eat

A Synthesis of Nutritional Ecology across a Mammal Order

Joanna E. Lambert, Margaret A. H. Bryer, Jessica M. Rothman , T. H. Clutton-Brock

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University of Chicago Press
26 July 2024

Animal behaviour; Primates

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: 50mm
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

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