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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Research Question | |
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| Study Species-Vervets and Patas Monkeys | |
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| Questions and Hypotheses | |
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| Socioecological Theory: Food Resources and Primate Behavior | |
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| Scramble and Contest Competition | |
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| Social Dominance | |
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| Models of Female Social Relationships | |
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| Testing the Models on Segera: A Natural Ecological Experiment | |
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| Holding Habitat Constant | |
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| Other Factors Potentially Affecting Female Social Behavior | |
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| Project Goals Revisited | |
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| Study Groups | |
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| Study Subjects | |
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| Measuring Primate Behavior and Ecology | |
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| "Measuring" Ecology | |
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| Measuring Food Availability | |
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| Commonly Used Methods | |
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| Primates' Perceptions of the Foods Available to Them | |
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| Clumped Resources and Within-Group Contest Competition | |
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| Foods Available to Vervet and Patas Monkeys | |
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| Hypotheses and Predictions | |
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| Defining a Food Patch | |
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| Measuring Food Availability | |
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| Large-Scale Food Availability | |
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| Small-Scale Food Availability | |
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| Swollen Thorns and Obligate Ants | |
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| Individual Foods in Riverine Habitat | |
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| Nutritional Value of Foods | |
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| Food Availability on Segera | |
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| Feeding Behavior of Patas and Vervet Monkeys | |
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| Studying the Feeding Behavior of Sympatric Species | |
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| Patas and Vervet Monkeys: Expected Differences and Similarities | |
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| Whistling-Thorn Acacia: Why Focus on One Food Species? | |
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| Feeding Behavior of Vervets and Patas Monkeys | |
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| Continuous Sampling | |
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| Bout Sampling | |
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| Rank-Related Differences in Feeding Behavior | |
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| Patch Depletion | |
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| Monkeys, Acacia, and Ants | |
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| Species Differences | |
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| Within-Species Differences According to Rank | |
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| Food Availability's Influence on Competition and Dominance in Vervets | |
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| The Concept of Dominance | |
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| Testing Hypotheses | |
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| Results: Contest Competition and Dominance in Vervets | |
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| Dominance Patterns and Feeding Competition in Vervets | |
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| The Significance of Dominance to Vervets | |
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| Dominance Style in Segera Vervets | |
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| "Typical" Cercopithecines? | |
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| Why a Stable, Linear Dominance Hierarchy on Segera? | |
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| Comparing Vervet and Patas Monkeys in Whistling-Thorn Woodland | |
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| Questions and Predictions | |
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| Agonistic and Dominance Behavior | |
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| The Link Between Food Availability and Competitive Regime | |
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| Dominance in Adult Females | |
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| Feeding Competition and Primates' Foods | |
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| Significance of Feeding Contest Competition to Vervets and Patas Monkeys | |
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| Testing Predictions of Models of Female Primate Behavior and Ecology | |
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| Female Contest Competition and Dominance in Vervets and Patas Monkeys on Segera | |
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| How Do the Models Rate? | |
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| Summary and Implications for Future Research | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |