Primate Ecology ((3))

Catalog description

This course provides an upper-division survey of behavior and ecological strategies practiced by the living primates. Concentration is placed upon assessment of primate behavior from three perspectives. An internal perspective that seeks to determine the impact of diet, reproduction, infant care, and social group mobility on primate behavior. An external perspective that provides an assessment of how ecological conditions, other primate species, and other animals affect primate behavior, and an evolutionary-psychological perspective that attempts to understand how living primates came to behave the way they do and the relative contributions of in-born, instinctive behaviors versus socially learned behaviors to primate activities.