Primates of Gashaka

Socioecology and Conservation in Nigeria's Biodiversity Hotspot

By: Volker Sommer (Editor), Caroline Ross (Editor)

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Hardcover | 24 November 2010

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The Gashaka Primate Project has grown into one of the largest research and conservation activities in West Africa. At present, it keeps going on the initiative of the editors of this volume and their academic home institutions.The appearance of this volume marks the 10th anniversary of the Gashaka Primate Project

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"This is an important publication about a little-known and only recently explored and studied area for African primates. ... It achieves the stated aim of the editors for the contributions to be of an interdisciplinary dimension from across the African continent. ... sections of the book are well illustrated by figures, maps, and photographs. Each chapter is well supported by references and several chapters have useful appendices. ... excellent source material and much more, for those interested in nature conservation and primates in West Africa." (Ray Heaton, Primate Eye, June, 2012)

"The editors and authors provide a definitive summary of interdisciplinary research activities carried out at the park by the Gashaka Primate Project (GPP) over the first 10 years of the organization's existence. ... Primates of Gashaka is essential reading for anyone interested primates or biodiversity conservation in western Africa, and it is destined to become a classic reference for primatologists, biologists, anthropologists, decision-makers, and conservationists." (Mary Katherine Gonder, The Quarterly Review of Biology Vol. 87 (4), December, 2012)

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Exploring and Protecting West Africa's Primates: The Gashaka Primate Project in Context	p. 1
To Save a Wilderness: The Creation and Development of Gashaka Gumti National Park, Nigeria	p. 39
Hunters, Fire, Cattle: Conservation Challenges in Eastern Nigeria, with Special Reference to Chimpanzees	p. 55
Monkeys and Apes as Animals and Humans: Ethno-Primatology in Nigeria's Taraba Region	p. 101
The Bush as Pharmacy and Supermarket: Mechanisms and Functions of Plant Use by Human and Non-human Primates at Gashaka	p. 135
Fulani of the Highlands: Costs and Benefits of Living in National Park Enclaves	p. 231
Pan-African Voyagers: The Phylogeography of Baboons	p. 267
Crop-raiding and Commensalism in Olive Baboons: The Costs and Benefits of Living with Humans	p. 307
How Different Are Gashaka's Baboons? Forest and Open Country Populations Compared	p. 333
Keeping in Contact: Flexibility in Calls of Olive Baboons	p. 361
Not Words but Meanings? Alarm Calling Behaviour in a Forest Guenon	p. 385
Patriarchal Chimpanzees, Matriarchal Bonobos: Potential Ecological Causes of a Pan Dichotomy	p. 417
Panthropology of the Fourth Chimpanzee: A Contribution to Cultural Primatology	p. 451
Will the Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee Go Extinct? Models Derived from Intake Rates of Ape Sanctuaries	p. 493
Index	p. 525
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