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- Session 3: Behavior
- Understanding primate behavior, its causes and functions. Developing an observational project to examine anthropological methodologies and project design.
- Session 1: Introduction
- Introduction to the course and expectations. Presents important terms and evolutionary theory.
- Session 14: Social Organization
- Primate behavior, organization, mating patterns.
- Session 4: Behavioral Ecology
- Examines primate behavioral ecology and evolutionary theory. Case study of primate infanticide to further understand primate behavior.
- Session 8: The Atelines
- Ecology, behavior, and conservation of the Atelines.
- Session 17: Conservation
- Explores primate behavior in terms of conservation and anthropological theory. Discussion of endangered primates and the impact of humans on nonhuman primates.
- Session 4: Behavioral Ecology: Feeding
- Exploration of primate life through habitat and food (type and acquisition),
- Session 7: The Macaques
- Macaca distribution, ecology, relations, and human-macaque sympatry.
- Session 2: Primate Taxonomy
- Primate taxonomy from 65mya over various continents. Evolutionary adaptations of primates over time.
- Session 12: Mate Choice
- Primate attraction, sexual selection, female versus male mate choice.
- Session 5: The Callitrichids
- Callitrichid characteristics, habitat, behavior, diet, social organization. Photos and descriptions of the Tamarins of the Potawatomi Zoo.
- Session 6: The Lemurs
- Introduction to the Lemurs of Madagascar.
- Session 9: The Orangutans
- Ecology, grouping patterns, and behavior of Pongo pygmaeus, the orangutan.
- Session 13: Social Learning
- Primate cognition and an exploration of the existence of primate culture.
- Session 10: The Chimpanzees
- Examines chimpanzee behavior, communities, and aggression.
- Session 16: Cooperation and Competition
- Theories on primate aggression and cooperation.
- Session 11: Sexuality and Reproduction
- Primate behavioral ecology, sexual selection, mating patterns and behavior, and reproduction.
- Session 15: Conflict Negotiation
- Primate conflict and post-conflict theories. Case studies of macaque and chimpanzee social organization.
- Lectures
- Lectures for Primate Behavior.
- Session 18: Ethnoprimatology
- Ethnoprimatology and Human-Monkey Interactions. Topics include human-nonhuman primate overlap, pathogen transmission, zones of sympatry and allopatry.
- Primate Taxonomy
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