Eat or be Eaten
Predator Sensitive Foraging Among Primates

Edited work on behavioural strategies of primates in foraging for food, and avoiding being eaten.

Lynne E. Miller (Edited by)

9780521011044, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 4 April 2002

310 pages, 37 b/w illus. 28 tables
24.6 x 19 x 1.7 cm, 0.715 kg

"Succinct...each [paper] is short and to the point, with a clear empirical focus and a commendably uniform format. This book [provides] a very useful compendium of knowledge." Ecoscience

Predator sensitive foraging represents the strategies that animals employ to balance the need to eat against the need to avoid being eaten. Ecologists working with a wide range of taxa have developed sophisticated theoretical models of these strategies, and have produced elegant data to test them. However, only recently have primatologists begun to turn their attention to this area of research. This volume brings together primary data from a variety of primate species living in both natural habitats and experimental settings, and explores the variables that may play a role in primates' behavioural strategies. Taken together, these studies demonstrate that predator sensitive foraging is relevant to many primates, of various body sizes and group sizes and living in different environments. Eat or be Eaten encourages further discussion and investigation of the subject. It will make fascinating reading for researchers and students in primatology, ecology and animal behaviour.

Preface
1. An introduction to predator sensitive foraging Lynne E. Miller
Part I. Biological Variables: 2. Dangers in the dark: are some nocturnal primates afraid of the dark? Simon K. Bearder, K. A. I. Nekaris and Courtney A. Buzzell
3. Predation sensitive foraging in captive tamarins Mark J. Prescott and Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith
4. Seeing red: consequence of individual differences in color vision in callitrichid primates Nancy G. Caine
5. Predator sensitive foraging in Thomas langurs Elisabeth H. M. Sterck
Part II. Social Variables: 6. The role of group size in predator sensitive foraging decisions for wedge-capped capuchin monkeys (Cebus olivaceous) Lynne E. Miller
7. Group size effects on predation sensitive foraging in wild ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) Michelle L. Sauther
8. Species differences in feeding in Milne Edward's sifakas (Propithecus diadema edwardsi), rufus lemurs (Eulemur fulvus rufus) and red-bellied lemurs (Eulemur rubriventer) in southeastern Madagascar: implications for predator avoidance Deborah J. Overdorff, Suzanne G. Strait and Ryan G. Seltzer
9. Evidence of predator sensitive foraging and traveling in single- and mixed-species tamarin troops Paul A. Garber and Julio Cesar Bicca-Marques
10. Predator (in)sensitive foraging in sympatric female vervets (Chlorocebus aethiops) and patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas): a test of ecological models of group dispersion Lynne A. Isbell and Karen L. Enstam
11. Predation risk and anti-predator adaptions in white-faced sakis (Pithecia pithecia) Terrence M. Gleason and Marilyn A. Norconk
Part III. Environmental Variables: 12. Foraging female baboons exhibit similar patterns of antipredator vigilance across two populations Russell A. Hill and Guy Cowishaw
13. Foraging and safety in adult female blue monkeys in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya Marina Cords
14. Predicting predation risk for foraging arboreal monkeys Adrian Treves
15. Predator sensitive foraging in ateline primates Anthony Di Fiore
16. Anti-predatory behaviour in gibbons (Hylobates lar, Yai/Thailand) Nicola L. Uhde and Volker Sommer.

Subject Areas: Animal behaviour [PSVP], Behavioural theory [Behaviourism JMAL]