Alison Jolly
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Alison Jolly's Degrees
- PhD Anthropology Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alison Jolly was a primatologist, known for her studies of lemur biology. She wrote several books for both popular and scientific audiences and conducted extensive fieldwork on Lemurs in Madagascar, primarily at the Berenty Reserve, a small private reserve of gallery forest set in the semi-arid spiny desert area in the far south of Madagascar.
Alison Jolly's Published Works
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Published Works
- Lemur Social Behavior and Primate Intelligence (1966) (806)
- The Evolution of Primate Behavior (1972) (640)
- Play: Its Role in Development and Evolution (1976) (614)
- Lemur Behavior: A Madagascar Field Study (1966) (227)
- Demography of Lemur catta at Berenty Reserve, Madagascar: Effects of Troop Size, Habitat and Rainfall (2002) (161)
- Berenty Reserve: A Research Site in Southern Madagascar (2006) (110)
- Female dominance status and fecal corticoids in a cooperative breeder with low reproductive skew: ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) (2003) (105)
- Prosimians' manipulation of simple object problems (1964) (104)
- Conservation education in Madagascar: three case studies in the biologically diverse island‐continent (2010) (102)
- Plant Species Fed on by Lemur catta in Gallery Forests of the Southern Domain of Madagascar (2006) (100)
- Pair-Bonding, Female Aggression and the Evolution of Lemur Societies (1998) (93)
- Hour of birth in primates and man. (1972) (90)
- Breeding synchrony in wild Lemur catta (1967) (80)
- Troop Histories and Range Inertia of Lemur catta at Berenty, Madagascar: A 33-year Perspective (1999) (76)
- Territoriality in Lemur Catta Groups during the Birth Season at Berenty, Madagascar (1993) (75)
- Infant Killing, Wounding and Predation in Eulemur and Lemur (2004) (71)
- Troop continuity and troop spacing in Propithecus verreauxi and Lemur catta at Berenty (Madagascar). (1972) (65)
- The greenhouse effect and biological diversity (1989) (60)
- Ringtailed lemur biology : Lemur catta in Madagascar (2006) (53)
- Maternal responses to dead and dying infants in wild troops of ring-tailed lemurs at the Berenty Reserve, Madagascar (1996) (52)
- Population and territory stability of the Lemur catta at Berenty, Madagascar. (1979) (52)
- Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution (1999) (47)
- Ring-Tailed Lemur Home Ranges Correlate with Food Abundance and Nutritional Content at a Time of Environmental Stress (2003) (46)
- In Retrospect: A global vision (2006) (46)
- Ringtailed Lemur Biology (2006) (40)
- The biogeography of large islands, or how does the size of the ecological theater affect the evolutionary play ? (2007) (35)
- Population and troop ranges of Lemur catta and Lemur fulvus at Berenty, Madagascar: 1980 census. (1982) (33)
- Feeding versus social factors in cognitive evolution: can't we have it both ways? (1979) (30)
- The stability of territorial boundaries in a lemur troop. (1970) (29)
- Troop fission in femaleLemur catta at berenty reserve, Madagascar (1995) (28)
- Choice of cue in prosimian learning (1964) (27)
- Propithecus verreauxi population and ranging at Berenty, Madagascar, 1975 and 1980. (1982) (27)
- Berenty Reserve, Madagascar: A Long Time in a Small Space (2012) (27)
- Feeding Competition Between Introduced Eulemur fulvus and Native Lemur catta During the Birth Season at Berenty Reserve, Southern Madagascar (2006) (27)
- The Missing Lemur Link: An Ancestral Step in the Evolution of Human Behaviour (2016) (26)
- Primate birth hour (1973) (25)
- A scoring system for coat and tail condition in ringtailed lemurs, Lemur catta (2009) (24)
- Territory as Bet-hedging: Lemur catta in a Rich Forest and an Erratic Climate (2006) (23)
- Coat condition of ringtailed lemurs, Lemur catta at Berenty Reserve, Madagascar: I. differences by age, sex, density and tourism, 1996–2006 (2009) (22)
- A World Like Our Own: Man and Nature in Madagascar (1980) (20)
- Coat condition of ringtailed lemurs, Lemur catta, at Berenty Reserve, Madagascar: II. Coat and tail alopecia associated with Leucaena leucocepahala, 2001–2006 (2009) (19)
- CHAPTER 13 – Malagasy Economics and Conservation: A Tragedy Without Villains (1984) (18)
- Love, actually (2004) (14)
- Predatory behavior in captive Lemur spp (1985) (14)
- The Infanticide Controversy: Primatology and the Art of Field Science Amanda Rees The Infanticide Controversy: Pr (2010) (13)
- Bald lemur syndrome and the miracle tree : alopecia associated with Leucaena leucocephala at Berenty reserve, Madagascar (2006) (13)
- The Tenrecs: A Study in Mammalian Behavior and Evolution. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology Number 27.J. F. Eisenberg , Edwin Gould (1971) (12)
- Systemic effects of Leucaena leucocephala ingestion on ringtailed lemurs (Lemur catta) at Berenty Reserve, Madagascar (2015) (10)
- The Last Great Apes? (2005) (8)
- Madagascar: a world apart (1987) (7)
- Madagascar: A World Out of Time (1991) (6)
- Notes on the History of Ecological Studies of Malagasy Lemurs (2006) (5)
- Human Birth: An Evolutionary Perspective. Wenda Trevathan. (1987) (5)
- The Social Origin of Mind (2007) (4)
- CHAPTER 11 – The Lemurs (1984) (3)
- Berenty Reserve: Past, Present, and Future (2012) (3)
- Monkeys in the Back Garden (2001) (3)
- Gorillas on a tightrope (1981) (2)
- Madagascar's lemurs: on the edge of survival (1988) (2)
- The Wide Spectrum of Sex and Gender (2004) (2)
- Abstracts of Other Papers Delivered (1998) (2)
- Play: Its Role in Development and Evolution@@@Ritual, Play and Performance (1978) (2)
- Prosimian behaviour (1979) (2)
- Comparative Ecology and Behaviour of Primates. Proceedings of a conference, London, Nov. 1971. Richard P. Michael and John H. Crook, Eds. Academic Press, New York, 1973. xvi, 848 pp., illus. $34 (1974) (2)
- Liberation and the aims of science: An essay on obstacles to the building of a beautiful world : By Brian Easlea. (London: Chatto and Windus for the Sussex University Press, 1973. Pp. 370. Cloth [UK pound]5.50, paper [UK pound]2.50.) (1974) (2)
- A letter on politics (2009) (1)
- Playing lemurs: why primates have been playing for a long time (2016) (1)
- Female biology and women biologists (1991) (1)
- Essays on science and society. Monkeys in the back garden. (2001) (1)
- The Chimpanzees of the Budongo Forest—Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation, Vernon Reynolds. OUP (2005). 314 pages, Price £32.50 (paperback), ISBN: 0-19-851546-4. (2007) (1)
- The chimpanzees' tea-party (1978) (1)
- Le Aye‐Aye de Madagascar. A film by J. J. PETTER (1973) (0)
- Ghosts at the End of the Earth. By R. D. MARTIN (1973) (0)
- The Gr se Meet and Biological Diversity (1989) (0)
- Acknowledgement to the Reviewers (2010) (0)
- Who are you? How lemurs recognise each other in a smell-centred world (2016) (0)
- Sick as a Parrot (2003) (0)
- Ape reproduction: science and ethics (1982) (0)
- A vertical living: sexual selection strategies and upright locomotion (2016) (0)
- Tupaia glis (Tupaiidae), Feeding I. By H. SPRANKEL (1973) (0)
- Preface by the authors (2016) (0)
- Dennett's “Panglossian paradigm” (1983) (0)
- A message from Jane Goodall (2016) (0)
- Life and death in Sumatra (2005) (0)
- Talking of Primates (1981) (0)
- 3Reserve: A Research Site in Southern Madagascar (2004) (0)
- Something to make peace for: conflict management and resolution (2016) (0)
- Looking back to the future – Michael Huffman (2016) (0)
- Short Notices@@@Woodlice in Britain and Ireland@@@Evolution: Essays in Honour of John Maynard Smith@@@Sonoran Desert Spring@@@The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Life Sciences@@@Social Odours in Mammals@@@Vertebrate Flight@@@The Evolution of Primate Behaviour (1986) (0)
- A private function (1997) (0)
- Sex is not on discount: mating market and lemurs (2016) (0)
- Understanding lemurs: future directions in lemur cognition (2016) (0)
- Recommendations of Workshops (1986) (0)
- Pitching it right (2000) (0)
- Galago Crassicaudatus, Transport of the Young by the Mother. By E. G. F. SAUER (1973) (0)
- 19. Social Intelligence and Sexual Reproduction: Evolutionary Strategies (1996) (0)
- ffPS Overseas Tours (1981) (0)
- Bossing around the forest: power asymmetry and hierarchy (2016) (0)
- Front & Back Matter (2016) (0)
- Lepilemur mustelinus (Lemuridae). Defensive Behavior. By J. J. PETTER (1973) (0)
- Front & Back Matter (2017) (0)
- Conservation in Madagascar (1978) (0)
- Primate Ethology: PROSIMIANS: Aspects of the Behaviour of the Sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi). By T. T. STRUHSAKER and A. RICHARDS (1973) (0)
- How to see lemurs (1996) (0)
- RANGING BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL DECISION-MAKING OF TWO SPECIES OF LEMURS AT BERENTY RESERVE, MADAGASCAR (2010) (0)
- Book Review: Bonobo. The Forgotten Ape. By Frans de Waal and Frans Lanting. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997, xvi + 210 pp., $39.95 (cloth). (1997) (0)
- Contents, Vol. 17, 1972 (1972) (0)
- Boiling down intelligence (1987) (0)
- Cheirogaleus major (Lemuridae). Play of Young Animals. By J. J. PETTER (1973) (0)
- Baby love Cruel experiments on monkeys showed that infants need affection (2002) (0)
- Front & Back Matter (2016) (0)
- What do you mean? Multimodal communication for a better signal transmission (2016) (0)
- The primates of madagascar. By I. Tattersall. New York: Columbia University Press. 1982. xiv + 382 pp., figures, tables, references, index. $40.00 (cloth) (1982) (0)
- Front & Back Matter (2016) (0)
- Front & Back Matter (2017) (0)
- Proceedings of the XVIIth Congress of the International Primatological Society, University of Antananarivo, Madagascar, August 10–14, 1998 (2004) (0)
- Laurea Honoris Causa (2012) (0)
- Modern shamans (1991) (0)
- Thinking Like a Vervet (1991) (0)
- Battlefield Sociobiology (2000) (0)
- Malayan Forest Primates , edited by David Chivers. Plenum Press, $42.50. (1982) (0)
- Anxiety…from scratch: emotional response to tense situations (2016) (0)
- The males of nearly every social primate play a special role in challenging predators , particularly if an infant is threatened (2012) (0)
- Missing links (1993) (0)
- Front & Back Matter (2017) (0)
- The Soul of the Ape (1971) (0)
- Hair signals (2005) (0)
- Lemuriens de Madagascar. By J. J. PETTER (1973) (0)
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