FOOD AND CULTURE

Non-Human Primates

Baby Chimpanzee (courtesy BLTC]

(diet and food-related behaviors)

Blaxter K (1989) Energy Metabolism in Animals and Man. Cambridge University Press [physical anthropology; evolution; metabolism; food processing; non-human primates].

Important Collection -- click for detailsGlander KE (1994) Nonhuman Primate Self-Medication with Wild Plant Foods. in NL Etkin (ed) The Pharmacologic, Ecologic, and Social Implications of Using Noncultigens. Univerity of Arizona Press, pp. 227-239 [non-human primates; plant foods; medication].

Hamilton W (1987) Omnivorous Primate Diets and Human Overconsumption of Meat. in M Harris; E Ross (eds) Food and Evolution. Temple University Press, pp. 117-132 [non-human primates; hominid evolution, food preference; meat].

Hanya G (2004) Diet of a Japanese Macaque Troop in the Coniferous Forest of Yakushima. International Journal of Primatology. 25:55-71 [non-human primates; diet; folivory; mycophagy].

Harding RO (1973) Predation by a Troop of Olive Baboons. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 38:587-592 [non-human primates; meat eating; baboon].

Hemingway C (1998) Selectivity and Variability in the Diet of Milne-Edwards Sifakas. International Journal of Primatology. 19:355- [non-human primates; food choice].

Hladik CM (1997) Primate Models for Taste and Food Preferences. in H Macbeth (ed) Food Preferences and Taste. Berghahn, pp. 15-26 [taste perception; human and non-human primates].

Hohmann G; Fruth B (1996) Food Sharing and Status in Unprovision Bonobos. in P Wiessner; W Schiefenhovel (eds) Food and the Status Quest. Berghahn, pp. 47-67 [non-human primates].

Isaac G (1978) The Food-Sharing Behavior of Protohuman Hominids. Scientific American. 238:90-106 [behavioral evolution; non-human primates; social relations].

Jolly A (1985) The Evolution of Primate Behavior [non-human primates; physical anthropology].

Milton K (1988) Foraging Behavior and the Evolution of Primate Cognition. in A Whiten; R Byrne (eds) Machiavellian Intelligence: Social Expertise and the Evolution of Intellect in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans. Oxford University Press, pp. 285-305 [brain; human evolution; non-human primates].

Milton K (1993) Diet and Primate Evolution. Scientific American. 269:86-93 [non-human primates; human evolution].

Norconk MA; Conklin-Brittain NL (2004) Variation on Frugivory: The Diet of Venezuelan White-Faced Sakis. International Journal of Primatology. 21:1-26 [non-human primates; neotropics; diet; seed predator; granivory; lipids; tannins; dietary fiber; antifeedants; crude protein].

Radetsky P (1995) Gut Thinking: The Connection between Brain Size and Diet in Monkeys. Discover. 16:76-82 [diet; physical morphology; Recommended -- click for detailsbrain; non-human primates; monkeys].

Richard A (1985) Food. W H Freeman [biological anthropology; non-human primates].

Recommended -- click for detailsRichard A (1985) Primate Diets: Patterns and Principles. in A Richard (ed) Primates in Nature. W H Freeman [biological anthropology; non-human primates].

Rolls ET (1997) Neural Processing Underling Food Selection. in H Macbeth (ed) Food Preferences and Taste. Berghahn, pp. 39-53 [neurological control of food preferences; non-human primates; Macca mulatta; Macca fascicularsis].

Simmen B (1997) Food Preferences in Neotropical Primates in Relation to Taste Sensitivity. in H Macbeth (ed) Food Recommended -- click for detailsPreferences and Taste. Berghahn, pp. 27-37 [food choice; non-human primates; red howler monkey; black spider monkey; South America; French Guiana].

Stanford C (1999) The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior. Princeton University Press [meat eating; behavior evolution; non-human primates].

Sussman RW (1978) Foraging Patterns of Non-Human Primates and the Nature of Food Preferences in Man. Federation Proceedings, Anthropology and the Assessment of Nutritional Status. 37:55-60 [non-human primates; human evolution; food preference and choice].

Sussman RW (1979) Ecology, Diet and Social Patterning in Old and New World Primates. in RW Sussman (ed). John Wiley and Sons [non-human primates].

Teleki G (1973) The Omnivorous Chimpanzee. Scientific American. 228:32-42 [non-human primates; meat eating; chimpanzee].

Teleki G (1975) Primate Subsistence Patterns: Collector Predators and Gatherer Hunters. Journal of Human Evolution. 4:125-184 [non-human primates; dietary patterns; human evolution].

Recommended -- click for detailsTeleki G; Harding RO (1981) Omnivorous Primates: Gathering and Hunting in Human Evolution. Columbia University Press [human evolution; non-human primates; subsistence patterns].

Ungar PS; Teaford MF (2002) Human Diet: Its Origins and Evolution. Praeger [collected essays; paleoanthropology; non-human primates; evolutionary medicine].

Whiten A; Widdowson EM (1992) Foraging Strategies and Natural Diet of Monkeys, Apes and Humans. Oxford University Press [non-human primates; diet; evolution; fossil evidence].

Yamakoshi G (1998) Dietary Reponses to Food Scarcity of Wild Chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 106:283- [hunger; non-human primates; Chimpanzee].

Yamamoto ME; Lopes FdA (2004) Effect of Removal from the Family Group on Feeding Behavior by Captive Callithrix Jacchus. International Journal of Primatology. 25:489-500 [non-human primates; common marmosets; social relations].

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