The Colobines are a group of Afroeurasian monkeys that exhibit extraordinary behavioural and ecological diversity. With long tails and diverse colourations, they are medium-sized primates, mostly arboreal, that are found in many different habitats, from rain forests and mountain forests to mangroves and savannah. Over the last two decades, our understanding of this group of primates has increased dramatically. This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the current research on colobine populations, including the range of biological, ecological, behavioural and societal traits they exhibit. It highlights areas where our knowledge is still lacking, and outlines the current conservation status of colobine populations, exploring the threats to their survival. Bringing together international experts, this volume will aid future conservation efforts and encourage further empirical studies. It will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in primatology, biological anthropology and conservation science. Additional online resources can be found at www.cambridge.org/colobines.
1. General introduction Ikki Matsuda, Cyril C. Grueter and Julie A. Teichroeb; 2. Taxonomic classification of Colobine monkeys Christian Roos; 3. The Colobine fossil record Stephen R. Frost, Christopher C. Gilbert and Masato Nakatsukasa; 4. Molecular phylogeny and phylogeography of Colobines Christian Roos and Dietmar Zinner; 5. Relationships between the diet and dentition of Asian leaf monkeys Barth W. Wright and Mary S. Willis; 6. Morphology and physiology of Colobine digestive tracts Ikki Matsuda and Marcus Clauss; 7. The Colobine gut microbiota: New perspectives on the nutrition and health of a specialized subfamily of primates Katherine R. Amato, Jonathan B. Clayton and Vanessa L. Hale; 8. Colobine nutritional ecology Jessica M. Rothman, Allegra N. DePasquale, Katarina D. Evans and Dominique L. Raboin; 9. Red colobus natural history Amanda H. Korstjens, Alison P. Hillyer and Inza Koné; 10. The natural history of black-and-white Colobus monkeys Peter J. Fashing; 11. The behaviour and ecology of olive Colobus Julie A. Teichroeb and Amanda H. Korstjens; 12. Ecology and behaviour of odd-nosed Colobines Cyril C. Grueter, Wendy M. Erb, Larry R. Ulibarri and Ikki Matsuda; 13. The ecology of Semnopithecus Ken Sayers; 14. Ecology of sympatric and allopatric Presbytis and Trachypithecus langurs in Sundaland Vincent Nijman; 15. The ecology of Trachypithecus spp. in the Indo-Burmese region Alison M Behie, Kirrily Apthorp, Rebecca Hendershott and Kayla Ruskin; 16. Socio-ecology of Asian Colobines Elisabeth H. M. Sterck and Tom S. Roth; 17. Socioecology of African Colobines Julie A. Teichroeb; 18. Causes and consequences of the formation of multilevel societies in Colobines Cyril C. Grueter; 19. Colobine population ecology: What limits population size Colin A. Chapman, Amélie Corriveau, Kim Valenta, Fabiola Espinosa-Gómez and Valérie A.M. Schoof; 20. The state of Asian Colobines and their conservation needs John Sha, Ikki Matsuda, Qihai Zhou, Andie Ang and Tilo Nadler; 21. Conservation of Africa's Colobine monkeys (Cercopithecidae, Colobinae) with taxonomic and biogeographic considerations Thomas M. Butynski and Yvonne A. de Jong; 22. Directions for future research Julie A. Teichroeb, Cyril C. Grueter and Ikki Matsuda.
Ikki Matsuda is an Associate Professor at Chubu University Academy of Emerging Sciences, Advisor at Japan Monkey Centre, and specially appointed Associate Professor at the Wildlife Research Center of Kyoto University, Japan. His expertise in primate ecology, in particular of the proboscis monkey, is based on extensive fieldwork. Cyril C. Grueter is a primatologist and biological anthropologist. He is a Senior Lecturer at The University of Western Australia, Perth, and Adjunct Professor at the International Centre of Biodiversity and Primate Conservation, Dali University, China. He has been actively involved in research on snub-nosed monkeys in China since 2002, mountain gorillas in Rwanda since 2009, and chimpanzees and colobus monkeys in Rwanda since 2015. Julie A. Teichroeb is a primate behavioural ecologist and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. She has studied wild black-and-white colobus monkeys since 2000 in Ghana and Uganda, and also currently examines spatial ecology in vervet monkeys in Uganda. She is the co-editor of Primate Research and Conservation in the Anthropocene (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
