Exploring everything from nutrients to food acquisition and research methods, a comprehensive synthesis of the study of diet and feeding in nonhuman primates.
What do we mean when we say that a diet is nutritious? Why can some animals 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 as 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. State-of-the-art information presented at physiological, behavioral, 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.
Table of 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: S 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
About the Author :
Joanna E. Lambert is an evolutionary biologist and professor of animal ecology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she directs the American Canid Project. 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.
Review :
“This work absolutely is essential for graduate training in primatology. More broadly, because primate diets and ecology are better understood than those of any other mammalian order, the findings are relevant to understanding the feeding ecology of Mammalia. As a professional, I will have a copy on my shelf and will consult it often. This is one of the best and most tightly themed science books I have seen. It will be cited repeatedly and will be a gateway for the study of primate dietary ecology.”
“How Primates Eat is, at the same time, a masterly synthesis of current knowledge of primate nutritional ecology, a celebration of all that has been achieved over the last 50 years, and a road map for future research.”
“This is an amazing book. . . . Where once the study of primate feeding (and, with rare exceptions, it was mainly just that) meant collecting observations of behavior, today it (routinely, I’m tempted to say) encompasses energetics and nutrition, hormones and microbiomes, phytochemistry and physiology as well. . . . The journey is far from over, as the editors signal in their preface, but this book is surely a major milestone along the way.”
