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By Joanna M. Setchell,Deborah J. Curtis

development at the luck of the 1st version and bringing jointly contributions from various specialists within the box, the second one variation of this consultant to investigate on wild primates covers the newest advances within the box, together with new info on box experiments and measuring behaviour. It presents crucial details and suggestion at the technical and useful points of either box and laboratory tools, protecting subject matters resembling ethnoprimatology; distant sensing; GPS and radio-tracking; trapping and dealing with; nutritional ecology; and non-invasive genetics and endocrinology. This built-in process opens up new possibilities to review the behavioural ecology of a few of the main endangered primates and to assemble details on formerly studied populations. Chapters contain methodological strategies; directions on amassing, processing and retaining samples/data for later research; moral concerns; comparative bills; and extra examining, making this a useful software for postgraduate scholars and researchers in primatology, behavioural ecology and zoology.

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