Paul Alan Garber
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materWashington University in St. Louis[1]
ThesisLocomotor behavior and feeding ecology of the panamanian tamarin (Saguinus oedipus geoffroyi, callitrichidae, primates) (1980)
Academic work
DisciplinePrimatology
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Paul Garber is a primatologist and the author and editor of several books and articles about primates. He is a professor at the University of Illinois.[1] He is editor of the American Journal of Primatology and director of research and education at La Suerte Biological Field School in Costa Rica.[2] Books he has authored or edited include New Perspectives in the Study of Mesoamerican Primates: Distribution, Ecology, Behavior, and Conservation (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects),[3] On the Move: How and Why Animals Travel in Groups,[4] Adaptive Radiations of Neotropical Primates.[5] and South American Primates: Comparative Perspectives in the Study of Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects)[6] In 2014, he co-edited two books on howler monkeys.[7][8] He has also studied interrelationships between the moustached tamarin and the saddleback tamarin.[9][10]

Professor Garber received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis in 1980.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Anthropology at UIUC". Archived from the original on December 18, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
  2. ^ a b "Paul Garber". Archived from the original on 2008-05-09. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
  3. ^ Estrada, A.; Garber, P.; Pavelka, M.; Luecke, L., eds. (2005). New Perspectives in the Study of Mesoamerican Primates: Distribution, Ecology, Behavior, and Conservation (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects). Springer. ISBN 978-0387258546.
  4. ^ Boinski, S.; Garber, P., eds. (2000). On the Move: How and Why Animals Travel in Groups. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226063409.
  5. ^ Garber, P.; Norconk, M.; Rosenberger, A., eds. (1997). Adaptive Radiations of Neotropical Primates. Springer. ISBN 978-0306453991.
  6. ^ Garber, P.A.; et al., eds. (2008). South American Primates: Comparative Perspectives in the Study of Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects). Springer. ISBN 978-0387787046.
  7. ^ Kowalewski, M.A.; Garber, P.A.; et al., eds. (2014). Howler Monkeys: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects). Springer. ISBN 978-1493919598.
  8. ^ Kowalewski, M.A.; Garber, P.A.; et al., eds. (2014). Howler Monkeys: Adaptive Radiation, Systematics, and Morphology (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects). Springer. ISBN 978-1493919567.
  9. ^ Garber, P. (May 1988). "Diet, Foraging Patterns, and Resource Defense in a Mixed Species Troop of Saguinus mystax and Saguinus fuscicollis in Amazonian Peru". Behaviour. 105 (1/2): 18–34. doi:10.1163/156853988x00421. JSTOR 4534677. – via JSTOR (subscription required)
  10. ^ Garber, P. (June 1988). "Foraging Decisions During Nectar Feeding by Tamarin Monkeys (Saguinus mystax and Saguinus fuscicollis, Callitrichidae, Primates) in Amazonian Peru". Biotropica. 20 (2): 100–106. doi:10.2307/2388181. JSTOR 2388181. – via JSTOR (subscription required)
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