Living across Africa and the Caribbean, this widely dispersed primate population must adapt to different environmental challenges. How do members of the genus Chlorocebus live in desert-like conditions and in areas with freezing temperatures and snow in winter? This book examines the ways these primates adapt genetically, hormonally, physically and behaviourally to their changing landscapes. It features summary chapters for major topics such as behavioural ecology, life history, taxonomy, genetics and ethnoprimatology. Shorter essays supplement the work, with experts detailing their particular research on these primates. The combination of scholarship provides both a comprehensive view of this adaptable genus while enabling the reader to gain depth in specific topics. Developed from a symposium, this book combines decades of experience working with savanna monkeys into a tangible resource, for students and researchers in primatology as well as evolutionary and behavioural studies.
Preface Trudy R. Turner, Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer Danzy Cramer; 1. Introduction Trudy R. Turner, Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer Danzy Cramer; 2. Biological resources for genomic investigation in vervet monkey (Chlorocebus) Anna J. Jasinska; 3. Vervet taxonomy Trudy R. Turner, Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer Danzy Cramer; 4. The promise of vervet genomics Wesley C. Warren and Michael J. Montague; 5. African green monkeys as a natural host of SIV Cristian Apetrei, Kevin Raehtz and Ivona Pandrea; 6. The vervet microbiome Katherine R. Amato; 7. Population genetics Trudy R. Turner, Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer Danzy Cramer; 8. Population genetic structure of vervet monkeys in South Africa Willem G. Coetzer, Joseph G. Lorenz, Nelson B. Freimer and J. Paul Grobler; 9. Behavioral ecology of vervets Trudy R. Turner, Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer Danzy Cramer; 10. Socioecology of vervet monkeys Patricia Whitten; 11. Biological complexity in primate sociality and health Brandi T. Wren; 12. Predation and food competition in vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) Lynne A. Isbell; 13. Vervet monkeys' social learning abilities Erica van de Waal; 14. Life history Trudy R. Turner, Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer Danzy Cramer; 15. The social and thermal competence of wild vervet monkeys Richard McFarland, Peter Henzi and Louise Barrett; 16. Novelty seeking in vervets: developmental, genetic and environmental influences Lynn A. Fairbanks; 17. Measurement of novelty seeking in wild vervet monkeys Maryjka Blaszczyk; 18. Causes of variation in the static allometry of morphological structures: a case study with vervet monkeys Rafael L. Rodríguez, Tegan J. Gaetano, J. Paul Grobler and Nelson B. Freimer; 19. Ethnoprimatology Trudy R. Turner, Christopher A. Schmitt and Jennifer Danzy Cramer; 20. Exploring Caribbean vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) through an ethnoprimatological lens Kerry M. Dore; 21. Vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and humans (Homo sapiens): studying interactions using stable isotope analysis Matt Sponheimer, James E. Loudon, J. Paul Grobler, Kimberly Moyer and Joseph G. Lorenz.
Trudy R. Turner is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and an Affiliated Faculty member in the Genetics Department at the University of the Free State, South Africa. She is co-founder of Primate Ecology and Genetics Group (PEGG), the South African Primatology Society. Christopher A. Schmitt is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Biology at Boston University, where he is also affiliated faculty in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Program. Jennifer Danzy Cramer is Associate Professor and Program Director of the Sociology, Anthropology, and Women's Studies Program at American Public University.
Reviews for Savanna Monkeys: The Genus Chlorocebus
'Savanna monkeys are noted to be numerous and widespread across their range, perhaps the most numerous non-human primate. In terms of conservation biology it is well known that common species can suddenly undergo rapid and sometimes difficult to explain declines. Whilst savanna monkeys are not endangered and are still common, perhaps study and analysis could be directed to help keep them that way and research with this aim might benefit other less fortunate taxa.' Ray Heaton, Primate Eye
