Capuchin monkey behavior has been the focus of increasing numbers of captive and field
studies in recent years, clarifying behavioral and ecological differences between the two …

An understanding of the fundamental causes of the structure of primate communities is
important for studies of primate evolutionary history, primate behavioral ecology, and …

An animal can only survive in a given habitat if it has enough time to find, process and digest
food whilst avoiding predation. The time it has for food acquisition is affected by the …

Two critical premises underlie prevalent interpretations of the ecological basis of variation
among female primate social behavior. The first is that food distribution affects competitive …

Although there is an extensive literature demonstrating the impact of human activities on
both species extinction risk and local ecological processes, the methodological tools that …

Diamond (Assembly of species communities. In: Cody ML, Diamond JM, editors. Ecology
and evolution of communities. Cambridge: Belknap. p 342–444 (1975)) argued that …

Human and nonhuman primates have coexisted as predator and prey in all major tropical
forest regions for millennia. Coexistence has often been mystical, with widespread taboos …

In this paper, we present an introduction to primate biogeography at a continental level and
then review the literature as it pertains to primate studies. Primate species diversity is …

The Caatinga dry forest poses a series of ecological challenges for mammals in general and
primates in particular. The erratic rainfall pattern impacts on plant diversity and phenological …

In 1999, the edited volume Primate Communities presented several studies that examined
broad‐scale patterns of primate diversity. 1 Similar studies were being conducted on …