The Natural History Of The Doucs And Snub-nosed MonkeysNina G Jablonski World Scientific, 1998 M06 25 - 404 páginas The Natural History of the Doucs and Snub-nosed Monkeys provides a comprehensive introduction to the biology of some of the rarest and least-known nonhuman primates. Virtually unstudied and unknown until 20 years ago, the doucs and snub-nosed monkeys occupy some of the most remote habitats of eastern Asia and exhibit some of the most unusual adaptations of any nonhuman primates. The volume provides detailed information on these rare Asian primates that will be useful to practitioners of evolutionary biology, field and laboratory primatology, systematics, field ecology, and conservation biology. |
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Evolution and Systematics | 11 |
Anatomy | 77 |
Ecology and Behavior | 153 |
Conservation | 291 |
Appendix Toward a Gazetteer of the Snubnosed and Douc Langurs | 337 |
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The Natural History of the Doucs and Snub-nosed Monkeys Nina G. Jablonski Vista previa limitada - 1998 |
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