Nonhuman Primates

 
Early Primates These items were part of the conceptual context within which I designed the Alyawarra project.

• The Environment as a Cage in Space and Time
• Patas Monkey Observations
• Nonhuman Primate Behavior: A Note on Recent Research
• Energy Relations and Some Basic Properties of Primate Social Organization

 

Later Primates These items partake of the data-based “spirit” of the Alyawarra project and are derived indirectly from it, but depict West African monkeys ( Cercopithecus aethiops ) on the Caribbean Islands of Barbados, St. Kitts and Nevis in the 1980s.

• Barbados: West Indian Green Monkeys: Problems in Historical Biogeography
  • Reviews of West Indian Green Monkeys: Problems in Historical Biogeography
    • By Lynn Fairbanks
    • By Annie Gautier-Hion
    • By P.C. Lee
    • By Vern Weitzel
    • By Warren G. Kinzey
    • By Peter Andrews
    • By Trundy J. Turner
    • By John Gilmore
    • By Anonymous
    • By H. Rothe
• Greece: Blue Monkeys of Thera (1 Illustration)
  The colossal volcanic eruption in 1500 BC that destroyed much of Minoan Civilization on the Greek Island of Thera, now called Santorini, did an amazing job of preserving the frescoes that decorated the interiors of homes in the village of Akrotiri. Of particular interest here is the Blue Monkey Fresco, which we encountered by sheer chance when we visited Santorini in 2003. The fresco depicts monkeys that are strikingly similar in form and posture to members of the genus Cercopithecus, including green monkeys, vervets and grivets. I include a portion of it here because it is ancient, beautiful and fascinating, not because it tells us anything specifically about green monkeys in the Caribbean. Indirectly, however, it may say a great deal about the ecological adaptability of Cercopithecines. This painting is directly related to paintings of blue monkeys at Knossos (McDermott, W.C., The Ape in Antiquity. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Archaeology No. 27, Baltimore 1938). For more information, see http://projectsx.dartmouth.edu/classics/history/bronze_age/index.html.

 

Primate Graphics

Barbados – Cercopithecus aethiops I include the following photographs from Barbados in support of West Indian Green Monkeys: Problems in Historical Biogeography even though these photographs did not appear in the published book.

Slide#	Location	Caption
BDSk01	West Coast	Beach monkey at work
BDSk02	West Coast	Beach monkey at work
BDSk03	Farley Hill Park	Park monkey at work
BDSk04	St. James	Caves in limestone cliffs used by monkeys
BDSk05	St. James	Deep layer of split cane on cave floor, presumably left by monkeys
BDSk06	Wildlife Reserve	Monkey splitting cane
BDSk07	Scotland District	Monkey as scarecrow
BDSk08	Wildlife Reserve	Entrance
BDSk09	Wildlife Reserve	Refreshment area
BDSk10	Wildlife Reserve	View of Primate Research Center under construction in distance
BDSk16	Bathsheba	Original PRC buildings
BDSk17	Bathsheba	Cages at original PRC
BDSk18	Bathsheba	Captive infant feeding at original PRC
BDSk19	Wildlife Reserve	Green monkeys acclimated to visitors and easy to photograph
BDSk20	Wildlife Reserve	Green monkeys acclimated to visitors and easy to photograph
BDSk21	Wildlife Reserve	Green monkeys acclimated to visitors and easy to photograph
BDSk22	Wildlife Reserve	Green monkeys acclimated to visitors and easy to photograph
BDSk23	Wildlife Reserve	Green monkeys acclimated to visitors and easy to photograph
BDSk24	Wildlife Reserve	Green monkeys acclimated to visitors and easy to photograph
BDSk25	Wildlife Reserve	Green monkeys acclimated to visitors and easy to photograph
BDSk26	Wildlife Reserve	Green monkeys acclimated to visitors and easy to photograph
BDSk27	Wildlife Reserve	Green monkeys acclimated to visitors and easy to photograph
BDSk28	Wildlife Reserve	Green monkeys acclimated to visitors and easy to photograph
BDSk29	Wildlife Reserve	Green monkeys acclimated to visitors and easy to photograph
BDSk30	Wildlife Reserve	Green monkeys acclimated to visitors and easy to photograph

 

Saudi Arabia – Papio hamadryas I include these photographs that I made of Papiohamadryas in Asir Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1990, simply because the Arabian animals remain under-represented in primate literature.

KSA338	Asir National Park	Wadi with water in small valley
KSA339	Asir National Park	Glade beside wadi in small valley
KSA340	Asir National Park	Hamadryas baboon male and female beside wadi
KSA341	Asir National Park	Hamadryas female and infant on rock
KSA342	Abha	Hamadryas female resting at parking area
KSA343	Abha	3 Hamadryas silhouettes on rim of escarpment
KSA344	Abha	1 male Hamadryas profile on rim of escarpment
KSA345	Abha	Hamadryas family – ma, pa and three kids
KSA346	Abha	Adult male Hamadryas sitting on car hood and yawning
KSA347	Abha	Adult male Hamadryas poised
KSA348	Abha	Adult male Hamadryas pensive

 

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