10. Is Optimization the Optimal Approach to Primate Foraging?

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Introduction: From Comparative Morphology and Socioecology to an Organismal Biology of Primates 1
5. 1. On the Use of Anatomical Features To Infer Foraging Behavior in Extinct Primates 21
6. 2. Motion Economy Within the Canopy: Four Strategies for Mobility 54
7. 3. Foraging, Habitat Structure, and Locomotion in Two Species of Galago 73
8. 4. Use of Habitat and Positional Behavior in a Neotropical Primate, Saguinus oedipus 112
9. 5. Foraging and Social Systems of Orangutans and Chimpanzees 134
10. 6. Feeding Ecology and Sociality of Chimpanzees in Kibale Forest, Uganda 161
11. 7. Ecological Differences and Behavioral Contrasts Between Two Mangabey Species 195
12. 8. Body Size and Foraging in Primates 217
13. 9. The Role of Food-Processing Factors in Primate Food Choice 249
14. 10. Is Optimization the Optimal Approach to Primate Foraging? 280
15. 11. A Conceptual Approach to Foraging Adaptations in Primates 304
16. Index 343