Ethnoprimatology Primate Conservation in the 21st Century /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Waller, Michel T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Animal ecology.; Community ecology, Biotic.; Urban ecology (Biology).; Zoology.; Anthropology.; Life Sciences.; Animal Ecology.; Community & Population Ecology.; Urban Ecology.

The list of challenges facing nonhuman primates in the 21st century is a long one. The expansion of palm oil plantations to feed a growing consumer class is eating away at ape and monkey habitats in Southeast Asia and Central Africa. Lemurs are hunted for food in the poorest parts of Madagascar whil...