Primates and Cetaceans

Heidelberg 2014, geb., xv, 439 Seiten, 78 sw.- Abb., 47 Farbabb. In this book, the editors present a view of the socioecology of primates and cetaceans in a comparative perspective to elucidate the social evolution of high-ly intellectual mammals in terrestrial and aquatic environments. Despite obvious differences in morphology and eco-physiology, there are many cases of comparable, sometimes strikingly similar patterns of sociobehavioral complexity. A number of long-term field studies have accumulated a substantial amount of data on the life history of various taxa, foraging ecology, social and sexual relationships, demography, and various pat-terns of behavior, from dynamic fission-fusion to long-term stable societies, from male-bonded to bisexually bonded to matrilineal groups.