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Woolly monkeys are large, attractive and widespread primates found throughout many parts of the Amazon basin. It is only in the last twenty-five years or so that long-term studies of woollies in their forest habitat have been successful; they have not generally been successfully kept in captivity. But now, especially because of their size, these creatures are pressed on all sides by bush meat hunters and forest fragmentation. Their future is becoming critically precarious and the editors feel that it is time to showcase these animals with a full book. The editors draw together a number of recent woolly monkey studies from three Amazonian countries, including five taxa of woolly monkeys, four of which have recently been reclassified without using new biological criteria as species rather than subspecies (Groves, 2001, 2005; Rylands & Mittermeier, 2009). This volume provides a diversity of studies by well-known researchers and advanced students on a wide range of subjects using newly generated data, including a criticism of the recent taxonomic changes. The varied information contained within The Woolly Monkey: Behavior, Ecology, Systematics and Captive Research will help readers understand these handsome animals and will, we hope, energize them to contribute to their conservation.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Biology, life sciences Life sciences: general issues

• Full title: Woolly Monkey
• Subtitle: Behavior, Ecology, Systematics, and Captive Research
• Author: Thomas R. Defler, Pablo R. Stevenson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 302
• EAN: 9781493952199
• ISBN: 1493952196
• ID: 14166734
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Weight: 4745 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. September 2016

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