primates

Unexpected large monkey population discovered

harminka — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:15:31 -0500

A WCS report reveals surprisingly large populations of two globally threatened primates in a protected area in Cambodia.

Little teeth suggest big jump in primate timeline

harminka — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:01:55 -0500

Tiny fossilized teeth excavated from an Indian open-pit coal mine could be the oldest Asian remains ever found of anthropoids, the primate lineage of today's monkeys, apes and humans, say researchers from Duke University and the Indian Institute of Technology.

Simian foamy virus found in several people living and working with monkeys in Asia

harminka — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:45:21 -0500

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 virus that, to date, has not been shown to cause human disease.

Big brains arose twice in higher primates

harminka — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:06:38 -0500

After taking a fresh look at an old fossil, John Flynn, Frick Curator of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, and colleagues determined that the brains of the ancestors of modern Neotropical primates were as small as those of their early fossil simian counterparts in the Old World.

Primate's scent speaks volumes about who he is

harminka — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:23:25 -0500

Perhaps judging a man by his cologne isn't as superficial as it seems.

Lizards pull wheelie

harminka — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:52:24 -0500

Why bother running on hind legs when the four you've been given work perfectly well? This is the question that puzzles Christofer Clemente. For birds and primates, there's a perfectly good answer: birds have converted their forelimbs into wings, and primates have better things to do with their hands.

Yerkes researchers identify language feature unique to human brain

harminka — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:58:22 -0500

Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have identified a language feature unique to the human brain that is shedding light on how human language evolved.

Non-human primates convey meaning through call combinations

harminka — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:08:17 -0500

Researchers have made what they say is the first experimental demonstration that a primate other than humans conveys meaning by combining distinct alarm calls in particular ways. The study appears in the March 11th issue of Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press.

Global climate changes caused migration of primitive species

seher — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:47:48 -0600

Studying Mississippi fossils researches discovered that small lemur-like primates wandered across a tropical land bridge from Siberia to Alaska during a period of global warming about 55 million years ago.

Scientists Find Cultural Differences Among Chimpanzee Colonies

ruzik_tuzik — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:27:34 -0600

Socially-learned cultural behaviour thought to be unique to humans is also found among chimpanzees colonies, scientists at the University of Liverpool have found.

Extinction threat growing for mankind's closest living relatives

harminka — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:54:46 -0500

Mankind’s closest living relatives – the world’s apes, monkeys, lemurs and other primates – are under unprecedented threat from destruction of tropical forests, illegal wildlife trade and commercial bushmeat hunting, with 29 percent of all species in danger of going extinct, according to a new report by the Primate Specialist Group of IUCN’s Species Survival Commission (SSC) and the International Primatological Society (IPS), in collaboration with Conservation International (CI).

Primate behaviour explained by computer ‘agents’

harminka — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:43:31 -0500

The complex behaviour of primates can be understood using artificially-intelligent computer ‘agents’ that mimic their actions, shows new research published in a special edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B and presented at the BA Festival of Science in York.