Parenting for Primates

Harriet J. Smith

    Prologue

    1. Learning to Parent

    2. The Primate Recipe for Mothering

    3. The Diversity of Primate Fathering

    4. The Babysitters' Club

    5. Weaning Wars

    6. The Quiet Years

    7. Emptying the Nest

    8. Parenting with Partners

    9. Parenting Solo

    10. The Dark Side of Parenting

    11. How Much Do Parents Matter?

    Who's Who among Nonhuman Primates

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Index

  • Cover: Parenting for Primates
  • A photo of the author

Photo by Katrina Sherk

Harriet J. Smith, now a clinical psychologist, was formerly a research primatologist. For thirty years she bred and raised a colony of cottontop tamarin monkeys in her home.