Frontmatter -- SECTION ONE: Ecology, Diet, and Social Patterning in Monkeys and Apes -- Ecology, Diet, and Social Patterning in Old and New World Primates / HLADIK, C. M. -- Habitat Description and Resource Utilization: A Preliminary Report on Mantled Howling Monkey Ecology / GLANDER, KENNETH E. -- Social and Ecological Contrasts Between Four Taxa of Neotropical Primates / KLEIN, LEWIS L. / KLEIN, DOROTHY J. -- Some Ecological, Distributional, and Group Behavioral Features of Atelinae in Southern Peru: With Comments on Interspecific Relations / DURHAM, NORRIS M. -- Comparison of the Behavior and Ecology of Red Colobus and Black-and-white Colobus Monkeys in Uganda: A Summary / STRUHSAKER, THOMAS T. / OATES, JOHN F. -- Population Dynamics of the Toque Monkey, Macaca sinica / DITTUS, WOLFGANG P. J. -- The Descent of Dominance in Macaca: Insights into the Structure of Human Societies / LOY, JAMES -- The Influence of Hormonal and Ecological Factors upon Sexual Behavior and Social Organization in Old World Primates / SAAYMAN, GRAHAM S. -- Social Behavior and Ecological Considerations of West African Baboons (Papio papio) / BOESE, GILBERT K. -- Discussion -- SECTION TWO: Meat-Eating and Behavioral Adaptations to Hunting -- Meat-Eating and Hunting in Baboons / HARDING, ROBERT S. O. -- The Origin of Hominid Hunting: A Primatological Perspective / SUZUKI, AKIRA -- Behavioral and Intellectual Adaptations of Selected Mammalian Predators to the Problem of Hunting Large Animals / PETERS, ROGER / MECH, L. DAVID -- Discussion -- SECTION THREE: Self-Awareness and Capacities for Perceptual Integration Across Sensory Modalities, Learning, Symbolizing, and Intelligence -- Towards an Operational Definition of Self-Awareness / GALLUP, GORDON G. -- Capacities of Nonhuman Primates for Perceptual Integration Across Sensory Modalities / ROGERS, CHARLES M. / DAVENPORT, RICHARD K. -- The Learning and Symbolizing Capacities of Apes and Monkeys / RUMBAUGH, DUANE M. -- Discussion -- Plates -- SECTION FOUR: Language Skills of Apes and the Evolution of Human Language -- Capacities for Language in Great Apes / FOUTS, ROGER S. -- The Language Skills of a Young Chimpanzee in a Computer-Controlled Training Situation / RUMBAUGH, DUANE M. / GLASERSFELD, E. C. VON / GILL, TIMOTHY V. / WARNER, HAROLD / PISANI, PIER / BROWN, JOSEPHINE V. / BELL, C. L. -- Discussion -- SECTION FIVE: Capacities for Tool Behavior and Hominid Evolution -- Primate Tool Behavior / BECK, BENJAMIN Β. -- Discussion -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjectsweiterlesen