Marmosets and Tamarins

Starting with concise species accounts for all the marmoset and tamarin monkeys, this important new book then goes on to review their geographical distributions and still-contested taxonomy, along with comparative reviews of vocalizations, scent-marking, mating systems, infant care and development, social organization, and behaviour and ecology in the wild. As several of these small primates are rare or threatened, these subjects are strongly relevant to their management in captivity as well as for understanding natural populations. This is the first volume for several years to review current knowledge of this family, which comprises 52 species and subspecies found from Panama to northeastern Paraguay to southern Brazil.

Introduction

Part I: Distribution and Systematics
1: Systematics, geographic distribution and some notes on the conservation status of Callitrichidae

Part II: Reproduction and Behaviour in Captivity
2: Species differences in scent glands, scent marking behaviour and scent mark composition
3: Social suppression of reproduction in female marmoset and tamarin monkeys
4: Callitrichid mating systems
5: Experimental multiple hybridism among Callithrix species from eastern Brazil
6: Vocalizations
7: The social organization of marmosets
8: Flexibility and cooperation as unifying themes in Sanguinus social organization and behaviour
9: Species comparisons of infant care in marmosets and tamarins
10: Behavioural ontogeny of Callitrichadae

Part III: Ecology and Behaviour
11: Ecology of Cebuella
12: Habitats and feeding ecology of the genus Callithrix
13: Feeding ecology and behaviour of the genus Sanguinus
14: Ecology of Leontopithecus
15: Ecological differentiation of the Callitrichidae

References
Index