News tagged with wild primates
Primate disease field guide covers critical gap in global health
Nov 18, 2008 |
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Why are so many infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans? Why do we have so little capacity to predict epidemics, or avoid them? Some answers, and possible solutions, can be found in the first trench-to-bench guide ...
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Malaysia tracks orangutans with implants
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Malaysian wildlife authorities are using electronic implants to keep track of orangutans in a bid to protect the endangered apes after they are freed into the wild, an official said Tuesday.
Simian foamy virus found to be widespread among chimpanzees
Jul 04, 2008 |
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Researchers in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Gabon, Germany, Japan, Rwanda, the United Kingdom, and the United States have found that simian foamy virus (SFV) is widespread among wild chimpanzees throughout ...
On the origin of subspecies
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Feb 11, 2009 |
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Scientists have sequenced over seventy strains of yeast, the greatest number of genomes for any species.
Execretion analysis aids primate social studies
Feb 15, 2009 |
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The arrival of molecular genetic analysis of both genes and hormones is providing scientists unexpected and unprecedented information about animals -- provided the researchers can find ways to get acceptable samples, said ...
Slowly-developing primates definitely not dim-witted
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Apr 16, 2008 |
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Some primates have evolved big brains because their extra brainpower helps them live and reproduce longer, an advantage that outweighs the demands of extra years of growth and development they spend reaching ...
Orangutan's spontaneous whistling opens new chapter in study of evolution of speech
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Dec 11, 2008 |
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Throughout history, human beings have used the whistle for everything from hailing a cab to carrying a tune. Now, an orangutan's spontaneous whistling is providing scientists at Great Ape Trust of Iowa new ...
Researchers unravel ways capuchin monkeys select effective tools
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Feb 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When Tchaikovsky penned The Nutcracker, the last thing he probably had in mind was a capuchin monkey. And yet new research, co-directed by a researcher at the University of Georgia, is changing our view about ...
Report: Humans evolved to be peaceful
Feb 19, 2006 |
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Humans evolved to be peaceful, cooperative and social animals, not the predators modern mythology would have us believe, says an U.S. anthropologist.
Despite 'peacenik' reputation, bonobos hunt and eat other primates too
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Oct 13, 2008 |
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Unlike the male-dominated societies of their chimpanzee relatives, bonobo society—in which females enjoy a higher social status than males—has a "make-love-not-war" kind of image. While chimpanzee males frequently band together ...
Simian foamy virus found in several people living and working with monkeys in Asia
Jul 31, 2008 |
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A research team led by University of Washington scientists has found that several people in South and Southeast Asian countries working and living around monkeys have been infected with simian foamy virus (SFV), a primate ...
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