Primate Locomotion

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Naturalistic Behavior

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-4

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   2. Methodological Issues in Studying Positional Behavior

      • Marian Dagosto, Daniel L. Gebo

      Pages 5-29

   3. Fine-Grained Differences within Positional Categories

      • Suzanne E. Walker

      Pages 31-43

   4. Patterns of Suspensory Feeding in Alouatta palliata, Ateles geoffroyi, and Cebus capucinus

      • David J. Bergeson

      Pages 45-60

   5. Within- and Between-Site Variability in Moustached Tamarin (Saguinus mystax) Positional Behavior during Food Procurement

      • Paul A. Garber

      Pages 61-78

   6. Locomotion, Support Use, Maintenance Activities, and Habitat Structure

      • W. Scott McGraw

      Pages 79-94

   7. The Gorilla Paradox

      • Melissa J. Remis

      Pages 95-106

3. Morphology and Behavior

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-110

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   2. Reconstruction of Hip Joint Function in Extant and Fossil Primates

      • Laura MacLatchy

      Pages 111-130

   3. Grasping Performance in Saguinus midas and the Evolution of Hand Prehensility in Primates

      • Pierre Lemelin, Brian W. Grafton

      Pages 131-144

   4. Tail-Assisted Hind Limb Suspension as a Transitional Behavior in the Evolution of the Platyrrhine Prehensile Tail

      • D. Jeffrey Meldrum

      Pages 145-156

   5. Unique Aspects of Quadrupedal Locomotion in Nonhuman Primates

      • Susan G. Larson

      Pages 157-173

   6. Forelimb Mechanics during Arboreal and Terrestrial Quadrupedalism in Old World Monkeys

      • Daniel Schmitt

      Pages 175-200

4. Data Acquisition and Analytic Techniques

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-204

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   2. Advances in Three-Dimensional Data Acquisition and Analysis

      • John Kappelman

      Pages 205-222

   3. Laser Scanning and Paleoanthropology

      • Leslie Aiello, Bernard Wood, Cathy Key, Chris Wood

      Pages 223-236

   4. Use of Strain Gauges in the Study of Primate Locomotor Biomechanics

      • Brigitte Demes

      Pages 237-254

   5. The Information Content of Morphometric Data in Primates

      • Charles E. Oxnard

      Pages 255-275

   6. Heterochronic Approaches to the Study of Locomotion

      • Laurie R. Godfrey, Stephen J. King, Michael R. Sutherland

      Pages 277-307

The study of primate locomotion is a unique discipline that by its nature is interdis­ ciplinary, drawing on and integrating research from ethology, ecology, comparative anat­ omy, physiology, biomechanics, paleontology, etc. When combined and focused on particular problems this diversity of approaches permits unparalleled insight into critical aspects of our evolutionary past and into a major component of the behavioral repertoire of all animals. Unfortunately, because of the structure of academia, integration of these different approaches is a rare phenomenon. For instance, papers on primate behavior tend to be published in separate specialist journals and read by subgroups of anthropologists and zoologists, thus precluding critical syntheses. In the spring of 1995 we overcame this compartmentalization by organizing a con­ ference that brought together experts with many different perspectives on primate locomo­ tion to address the current state of the field and to consider where we go from here. The conference, Primate Locomotion-1995, took place thirty years after the pioneering confer­ ence on the same topic that was convened by the late Warren G. Kinzey at Davis in 1965.

• animals
• anthropology
• behavior
• biomechanics
• ecology
• ethology
• evolution
• morphology
• physiology
• primates

• California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, USA

  Elizabeth Strasser

• State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, USA

  John G. Fleagle

• National Zoological Park, USA

  Alfred L. Rosenberger

• University of California, Davis, Davis, USA

  Henry M. McHenry

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