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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Preface xv
5. Introduction: From Diets to Disturbance: The Evolution of Primate Feeding Studies 1
6. PART I Finding, Building, and Using a Diet
7. 1 The Role of Macro-and Micronutrients in Primate Food Choice 19
8. 2 What Extant Primates Eat: A Global Survey 35
9. 3 The First Diet: Mother’s Milk 52
10. 4 Diet and the Energetics of Reproduction 68
11. 5 Primate Energy Requirements: Brains, Babies, or Behavior? 82
12. 6 Primate Senses: Finding and Evaluating Food 95
13. 7 Seasonality in Food Availability and Energy Intake 114
14. PART II Nutrients, Nutrition, and Food Processing
15. 8 Enzymes and Microbes of the Mammalian Gut: Toward an Integrated Understanding of Digestion 135
16. 9 Secondary Compounds in Primate Foods: Time for New Approaches 150
17. 10 Hormonally Active Phytochemicals in Primate Diets: Prevalence across the Order 176
18. 11 Nutrition and Immune Function in Primates 198
19. 12 Nutrition and Primate Life History 222
20. PART III Food Acquisition and Nutrition in Social Environments
21. 13 Social Food Competition, Then and Now 241
22. 14 Applying a Framework of Social Nutrition to Primate Behavioral Ecology 261
23. 15 Primate Cognitive Ecology Challenges and Solutions to Locating and Acquiring Resources in Social Foragers 272
24. 17 Hunting by Primates 327
25. 18 Movement Ecology and Feeding Neighborhoods 355
26. 19 Foraging in a Landscape of Fear 364
27. 21 Behavioral Flexibility and Diet 381
28. PART IV Methods, Practice, and Application
29. 21 Measuring Food in the Field 397
30. 22 Wild Plant Food Chemistry 417
31. 23 Evaluating Primate Diets with Stable Isotopes 431
32. 24 Mechanical Properties of Primate Foods 446
33. 25 Modeling Primate Nutrition 463
34. 26 Reconstructing Fossil Primate Diets: Dental-Dietary Adaptations and Foodprints for Thought 498
35. 27 Food and Primate Carrying Capacity 515
36. 28 Climate Change and Primate Nutritional Ecology 532
37. 29 Primate Foraging Strategies Modulate Responses to Anthropogenic Change and Thus Primate Conservation 544
38. Afterword 555
39. Acknowledgments 557
40. Literature Cited 559
41. List of Contributors 715
42. Index 723