The Complete Capuchin
The Complete Capuchin
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完整的卷尾猴
DOI：
10.1007/s10764-005-2936-7
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发表时间：
2005
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
S. Perry
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作者：
S. Perry
没有一种新大陆灵长类动物像卷尾猴（Cebus spp.）那样吸引了公众的想象力和兴趣。这些强烈的社会性，情感，好斗，勤奋和高度适应性的动物长期以来一直是宠物的最爱，作为娱乐业的无薪雇员，作为截瘫患者的助手，以及作为科学探究的主题。Fragaszy等人做了一项令人印象深刻的全面工作，汇编了2002年之前关于其行为生物学的所有已知信息，不仅包括已发表的科学文献，包括几乎所有关于该属的硕士和博士论文，还包括几个世纪前的晦涩历史笔记和未发表的轶事以及从众多研究人员那里征集的新的未发表的数据集。任何研究卷尾猴的人都需要至少两本书在家和办公室，也许还有一本在野外，这样他们就可以随时在触手可及的地方找到这本方便的参考书。但这不仅仅是卷尾猴学家的兴趣所在。大多数章节都写在一个外行人可以理解的水平上，对重要的辩论进行了清晰和相对无行话的综合。每一章都以一个丰富多彩的小插曲开始，描述卷尾猴行为的一些有趣的方面，章节中充满了迷人的轶事以及图表，使人们很容易想象他们的行为。这本书也是任何对智力、文化和灵长类社会系统的进化感兴趣的学者的必读之作。卷尾猴已经独立地进化出许多进化人类学家希望解释的人类起源的特征：巨大的大脑，复杂的工具使用，社会习俗，狩猎脊椎动物，食物共享（至少，广泛的容忍食物转移），频繁的异母繁殖，精心设计的非受孕性行为，药用植物使用，以及频繁（有时是致命的）对同种的联盟攻击。有兴趣了解人类的学者
No New World primate taxon has captured the public’s imagination and interest as much as the capuchins (Cebus spp.). These intensely social, emotional, pugnacious, hard-working and highly adaptable animals have long been favorites as pets, as unpaid employees of the entertainment industry, as helpers for paraplegics, and as the subjects of scientific inquiry. Fragaszy et al. have done an impressively thorough job of compiling everything known about their behavioral biology before 2002, including not only the published scientific literature, including virtually every masters and PhD thesis written on the genus, but also obscure historical notes dating back centuries and unpublished anecdotes and new unpublished data sets solicited from numerous researchers. Anyone doing research on capuchins will need at least 2 copies—home and office, and perhaps another copy for the field—so they can have this handy reference within arm’s reach at all times. But it is not just of interest to capuchinologists. Most chapters are written at a level that will be comprehensible to a layperson, with clear and relatively jargon-free syntheses of the important debates. Each chapter begins with a colorful vignette describing some intriguing facet of capuchin behavior, and the chapters are peppered with fascinating anecdotes alongside the graphs and tables, making it easy to visualize their behavior. This book is also a must-read for any scholar interested in the evolution of intelligence, culture, and primate social systems. Capuchins have independently evolved many of the traits that evolutionary anthropologists wish to explain about human origins: enormous brains, sophisticated tool use, social conventions, hunting of vertebrates, food sharing (at least, extensive tolerated food transfer), frequent alloparenting, elaborate nonconceptive sex, medicinal plant use, and frequent (sometimes lethal) coalitionary aggression against conspecifics. Scholars interested in understanding human