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V.—Behaviour and Adaptations of the Primates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

W. C. Osman Hill
W. C. Osman Hill
Affiliation:
Prosector, Zoological Society of London.
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Synopsis

The subject is a very wide one and for the purposes of a single contribution some selection is essential. Much might be, indeed has been, said concerning the adaptations relating to sexual and reproductive behaviour in the Primates, notably in a long series of contributions by Zuckerman and his co-workers (especially in his summaries of 1932 and 1933). Attention might also be made to the structural adaptations associated with toilet habits. But I have restricted my remarks to three aspects alone, paying particular attention to behavioural patterns in which I have been personally interested, or structural details which I have myself made the subject of contributions to the literature.

I shall confine myself to I. Adaptations associated with the Arboreal Habit; II. Adaptations connected with Dietetic Habits; III. Adaptations correlated with Social Organization.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 66 , Issue 1 , January 1957 , pp. 94 - 110
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1956

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