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As Donald Trump prepares to enter the White House, there may be dark days ahead for some of the world’s rarest and most beautiful primates.
Without research on primates, we wouldn’t be able to understand the human brain – or repair it.
Because primates have relationships too you know.
A small but dedicated team is offering these abandoned apes a brighter future.
There must be some evolutionary force acting to maintain this visual ‘defect’.
Different parts of our brains process different things, like the facial features, voices and the gait of people we know. But it takes memory to weave them all together into a single picture.
Archaeological remains, traditional tribes and conflict among chimpanzees can tell us much about the history of human warfare.
An experiment providing interactive games for orang-utans is showing the potential for digital technology to enrich the lives of zoo animals.
Social organisation plays a key role in the wide variation seen in the size of male howler monkey calls and the size of their testes.
Evolution also does not claim humans evolved from primates. Neither does it say non-human primates, including monkeys, baboons, chimpanzees and gorillas, will evolve into humans with time.
We can learn a lot about ourselves and our evolutionary history by looking at the personalities of our primate cousins.
Chimps might be cute and cuddly but it’s their human drama that obsesses us.
Draft guildelines for the use of non-human primates in research will dilute what protections these animals have, despite numerous reasons to stop the practice entirely.
As humans, we live in a colourful world, but differences in visual systems means that not all animals see the world in the same way. Unlike other aspects of an object such as size or mass, colour is not…
You might have noticed recently that a plague of “selfies” with tigers appears to have overtaken mobile dating app Tinder (where users “swipe right” to indicate interest; left to reject). Globally, so…
Wild bonobos, like all Great Apes, spend long childhoods with their mothers, learning the skills they need to function as socially and emotionally stable members of their community. But orphaned bonobos…
A DNA method able of identifying exact species of primate ‘bushmeat’ that has been cooked for sale has been developed in…
While not the brightest of primates, one species of lemur has shown it can still learn a trick or two, staying safe from predators by heeding the alarm calls of other creatures in the forest. Of all the…
Do chimpanzees and bonobos throw tantrums when their decision-making fails to pay off? That’s the question posed in a new PLoS ONE study by Brian Hare of Duke University and Alexandra Rosati of Yale. It…
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