How Primates Eat A Synthesis of Nutritional Ecology across a Mammal Order

About this book

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, behavioural, 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.

Contents

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: A 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

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Biography

Joanna E. Lambert is an evolutionary biologist and professor of animal ecology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she directs the Wildlife and Humans Lab. 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.