Alan F. Dixson (Victoria University of Wellington)

The Mandrill

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Living in the remote forests of western central Africa, mandrills are notoriously elusive and have evaded scientific scrutiny for decades. Recent research, synthesised here for the first time, sheds light on mandrill behaviour, reproductive biology and evolution, and allows for explanation of its extreme sexual dimorphism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781107535121
• ISBN-10: 1107535123
• Artikelnr.: 51380390

Autorenporträt

Alan F. Dixson is a Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is a world authority on the reproductive biology and evolution of sexuality in primates. During a distinguished career, he has held posts at the Zoological Society of London, the Medical Research Council (UK), the International Medical Research Centre in Gabon, the Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, and the Zoological Society of San Diego.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Part I. Natural History: 1. Historiae animalium
2. The genus Mandrillus: classification and distribution
3. Morphology and functional anatomy
4. Ecology and behaviour
5. Social communication
6. Matters of life and death
Part II. Reproduction: 7. Seasonal patterns of reproduction
8. Behaviour and reproductive success
Part III. Evolution and Sexual Selection: 9. A brief evolutionary history of the genus Mandrillus
10. Sexual selection
11. Epilogue: conservation status of the genus Mandrillus
Appendix
References
Index.