Social groups are maintained by communication between individuals, which is brought
about by a series of largely innately determined gestures and responses. The way in which …

Available information shows that genera of sub-human primates have characteristic patterns
of groupings and social reactions (5). For every type selected for study, therefore, adequate …

Kummer and Kurt 5 to apply this experience to primatology, ie to start criticism of
morphological taxonomy by a comparative study of behavior-elements. Unfortunately …

Attempts to relate interspecific differences in social organisation among primates to gross
differences in habitat or diet type have been largely unsuccessful. This is probably partly …

Gahtlan explicit and succinct statement of the supposed function of these two mechanisms
was that of Zuckerman [1932]:«The main factor that determines social groupings in sub …

Publisher Summary The origins of primate sociability and the sources of order in the
societies of monkeys and apes are highly complex. The living primates have evolved as …

TENTATIVE GENERALIZATIONS ON THE GROUPING BEHAVIOR OF NON-HUMAN
PRIMATES* BY CR CARPENTER Department of Psychology The Pennsylvania State …

A brief history is given of primatology in Japan and several attempts to generalise about
primate social organisations are reviewed. The author's own approach is then presented …

Prior to embarking on his classic field study of howler monkeys, CR Carpenter was
impressed with the importance of social interactions in the day-to-day lives of the nonhuman …

If “social behavior” is defined as “what one gets when the behavior of one or more
individuals can be shown to be a function of the behavior of others”(Baron and Littmann …