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The primate family tree : the amazing diversity of our closest relatives / Ian Redmond ; foreword by Jane Goodall.

by Redmond, Ian.

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Firefly Books, 2008.

Primates -- Pictorial works.

176 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 30 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171) and index.

Primate characteristics -- Global primate distribution -- Diet and habitat -- Gardeners of the forest -- Primate cultures -- Social structures -- Communication -- Darwin's big idea -- Friend or foe? -- Primate tourism -- Primate conservation -- In the field -- Introduction: prosimians -- Lorises and the potto -- Bushbabies -- Introducing lemurs -- Dwarf and mouse lemurs -- Sportive lemurs -- True lemurs, including bamboo lemurs -- The indrid family -- Aye-aye -- Tarsiers -- Introduction: New World monkeys -- Marmosets and tamarins -- Night monkeys -- Titi monkeys -- Capuchins and squirrel monkeys -- Sakis and uakaris -- Howler monkeys -- Spider monkeys, muriquis, and woolly monkeys -- Introduction: Old World monkeys -- Macaques -- Baboons -- Drill and mandrill -- Mangabeys -- Patas monkey and swamp monkey -- Vervet and talapoin monkeys -- Guenons -- Black-and-white colobus -- Red colobus and olive colobus -- Langurs -- Odd-nosed colobines -- Proboscis monkey -- Introduction: apes -- Gibbons and siamang -- Brachiation -- Orangutans -- Gorillas -- Chimpanzee and bonobo -- The cultured ape -- Humans -- Where to watch primates.

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