The Evolution of Exudativory in Primates

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Burrows, Anne M. (Editor), Nash, Leanne T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Edition: First.
• Series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Ecology.; Evolutionary biology.; Zoology.; Animal anatomy.; Anthropology.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology.

The Evolution of Exudativory in Primates is the first edited volume to offer a comprehensive overview of this rare dietary niche in the primate order. Leading researchers in the field of primatology synthesize our current knowledge of the behavioral, socioecological, nutritional, morphological, and...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Advances and Remaining Sticky Issues in the Understanding of Exudativory in Primates
• Nutritional and Digestive Challenges to Being a Gum-Feeding Primate
• Exudativory in Primates: Interspecific Patterns
• The Ecology of Exudate Production and Exudate Feeding in Saguinus and Callimico
• Influences on Gum Feeding in Primates
• Gummivory in Cheirogaleids: Primitive Retention or Adaptation to Hypervariable Environments?
• Seasonality in Gum and Honeydew Feeding in Gray Mouse Lemurs
• Comparative Ecology of Exudate Feeding by Lorises (Nycticebus, Loris) and Pottos (Perodicticus, Arctocebus)
• Exudativory and Primate Skull Form
• A Comparative Analysis of the Articular Cartilage in the Temporomandibular Joint of Gouging and Nongouging New World Monkeys
• Searching for Dental Signals of Exudativory in Galagos
• A Guide to Galago Diversity: Getting a Grip on How Best to Chew Gum
• Tongue Morphology in Infant and Adult Bushbabies (Otolemur spp.)
• Adaptive Profile Versus Adaptive Specialization: Fossils and Gummivory in Early Primate Evolution.