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Exploring everything from nutrients to food acquisition and research methods, a comprehensive synthesis of the study of diet and feeding in nonhuman primates.
What do we mean when we say that a diet is nutritious? Why can some animals 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 as 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. 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.
Foreword
Preface
Introduction: From Diets to Disturbance: The Evolution of Primate Feeding Studies
Finding, Building, and Using a Diet
The Role of Macro- and Micronutrients in Primate Food Choice
What Extant Primates Eat: A Global Survey
The First Diet: Mother’s Milk
Diet and the Energetics of Reproduction
Primate Energy Requirements: Brains, Babies, or Behavior?
Primate Senses: Finding and Evaluating Food
Seasonality in Food Availability and Energy Intake
Nutrients, Nutrition, and Food Processing
Enzymes and Microbes of the Mammalian Gut: Toward an Integrated Understanding of Digestion
Secondary Compounds in Primate Foods: Time for New Approaches
Hormonally Active Phytochemicals in Primate Diets: Prevalence across the Order
Nutrition and Immune Function in Primates
Nutrition and Primate Life History
Food Acquisition and Nutrition in Social Environments
Social Food Competition, Then and Now
Applying a Framework of Social Nutrition to Primate Behavioral Ecology
Primate Cognitive Ecology: Challenges and Solutions to Locating and Acquiring Resources in Social Foragers
Feeding-Related Tool Use in Primates: A Systematic Overview
Hunting by Primates
Movement Ecology and Feeding Neighborhoods
Foraging in a Landscape of Fear
Behavioral Flexibility and Diet
Methods, Practice, and Application
Measuring Food in the Field
Wild Plant Food Chemistry
Evaluating Primate Diets with Stable Isotopes
Mechanical Properties of Primate Foods
Modeling Primate Nutrition
Reconstructing Fossil Primate Diets: Dental-Dietary Adaptations and Foodprints for Thought
Food and Primate Carrying Capacity
Climate Change and Primate Nutritional Ecology
Primate Foraging Strategies Modulate Responses to Anthropogenic Change and Thus Primate Conservation
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Literature Cited
List of Contributors
Index