Primate Behavior & Ecology

Abnormal Behavior

• Regurgitation and Coprophagy in Captive Gorillas (bibliography by Kate Baker)
• Self-biting in Caged Macaques: Cause, Effect and Treatment (by Viktor Reinhardt and Matt Rossell)
• Towards an understanding of stereotypic behaviour in laboratory macaques (by Nora Philbin)

Aggressive

• The Origin of War (by Johan M.G. van der Dennen)

Cognition/Intelligence

• The Evolution of Primate Intelligence
• MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
• The Role of Language in Intelligence
• Theory of Mind in Nonhuman Primates (Published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1998)
• What Are They Thinking? (Work of Sally Boysen)

Communication

• Vokalisationen des Silbergibbons (by Markus Kappeler, 1977, in German)

Comparative

• A Comparison of Some Similar Chimpanzee and Human Behaviors (essay by James Q. Jacobs)

Ecology

• African Ape Study Sites
  • African Ape Site Floral Lists
• The Javan Silvery Gibbon (Hylobates lar moloch): Ecology and Behaviour (1981 dissertation by Markus Kappeler)

Ethograms

• Ethograms (Includes categories: Apes, New World Monkeys, Old World Monkeys and Prosimians)
• From Laboratory to More Natural Enclosures: Maintaining the Well-Being of Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) by Sue Howell, Melanie Schwandt, Jo Fritz, and Sandy Walker (From Laboratory Primate Newsletter, includes appendix of positive and negative behaviors)
• Gorilla Ethograms

Feeding

• Diet and Feeding Behaviour of the Moloch Gibbon (by Markus Kappeler)
• A Note on the Chance Preying by a Western Tarsier on Fruit Bats in Malaysian Borneo
• Payment for Labor in Monkeys (by Frans B.M. de Waal and M.L. Berger)

Learning (Language, problem solving, tool use)

• Are Nonhuman Species Capable of Language Acquisition?
• A Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms
• Can Chimps Talk?(Transcript of the NOVA program)
• Can Chimps Talk?: Slithy Toves of Chimpanzees (by Robert Beard, Bucknell University)
• Can Primates Talk?
• Chimpanzee Communication
• Chimp Talk Debate
• A Conversation with Emily Sue Savage-Rumbaugh; She Talks to Apes and, According to Her, They Talk Back (New York Times, April 14, 1998)
• A Conversation With Koko (from PBS)
• Language in Apes
• Machiavellian Monkeys & Shakespearean Apes: The Question of Primate Language by Alex Hawes, Zoogoer, 1995
• Non-human Primates and Language
• Primatech (Orangutan sign language project)
• Primate Use of Language
• Signing Primates
• The Sounds of Language (about Sue Savage-Rumbaugh)
• Tool Use (lecture by Bill Sellers)

Parenting

• Artificial Weaning of Old World Monkeys: Benefits and Costs (by Viktor Reinhardt)

Predation

• A Note on the Chance Preying by a Western Tarsier on Fruit Bats in Malaysian Borneo
• The Predatory Behavior and Ecology of Wild Chimpanzees

Reproduction

• Table of reproduction data (Includes mating system, age at first birth, gestation length, litter size, birth rate, neonate weight, age and weight at weaning; Supplementary material to: Lindenfors P. Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2002; 15 (4): 595-607)

Sexual Behavior

• Bonobo Sex and Society (by Frans de Waal)

Sleep

• Primate Sleep (transcript of Primate-Talk discussion and general bibliography)

Social Behavior

• Binti, Interspecies Relations, and Wildlife Conservation
• Birth Time Decides the Mating Seasonality in Primates (by Shuyi Zhang)
• Chimpanzee Cultures (includes a database of chimpanzee behavior)
• Chimps R Us (PBS: Scientific American Frontiers)
• Effect of Group Composition on Aggression in Female Lowland Gorillas
• Evolvability, Culture and the Primate Social Brain
• Humor in Primates
• Imo the Amazing (Cultural transmission in macaques)
• Ishasha Home Page (Chimpanzee behavior)
• Kinship and Gender
• Living Links Video Links
• The Paula Gordon Show: Conversations with Frans de Waal
• The Predatory Behavior and Ecology of Wild Chimpanzees (by Craig Stanford)
• Primate Behavior(lecture by Bill Sellers)
• Primate Social Intelligence (by R. P. Worden)
• Vocal Bouts and Territorial Maintenance in the Moloch Gibbon (by Markus Kappeler, 1984)

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