: Primate Ethology . Desmond Morris.

Primate Behavioral Ecology: From Ethnography to Ethology and Back

Nonhuman primates occupy a special niche in anthropology because of the comparative insights into humans they provide. Initial anthropological interest in primates targeted the apes for their close phylogenetic relationships with humans, and the semiterrestrial Old World monkeys for their ecological similarities with hominids adapting to life on the ground. From the earliest anecdotal reports o...

Desmond Mervyn Germans

Ethology and Stress Diseases

Many of us have been surprised at the unconventional decision of the Nobel Foundation to award this year’s prize ‘for Physiology or Medicine’ to three men who had until recently been regarded as ‘mere animal watchers’. Since at least Konrad Lorenz and I could not really be described as physiologists, we must conclude that our scientia amabilis is now being acknowledged as an integral part of th...

Ethology of Mammals

which tend to capitalize on similarity rather than change. Time ranges of biologic rhythms are explored and an enormous variation is evident ranging from fractions of a second within an individual to millions of years in an evolutionary scale. The influence and interplay of exogenous and endogenous factors in such rhythms are discussed and abnormalities of rhythms are considered to be of fundam...

Ethology and stress diseases.

Many of us have been surprised at the unconventional decision of the Nobel Foundation to award this year’s prize ‘for Physiology or Medicine’ to three men who had until recently been regarded as ‘mere animal watchers’. Since at least Konrad Lorenz and I could not really be described as physiologists, we must conclude that our scientia amabilis is now being acknowledged as an integral part of th...