News tagged with mandrills
Mandrill monkey creates tool for a pedicure (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent paper published in Behavioural Processes, scientists reveal a film of a mandrill monkey creating a tool from a stick in order to remove dirt from underneath its toenails. This new finding shows ...
Jul 25, 2011 |
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Smell the love
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mandrills can use body odour to identify potential mates, researchers have found, in a study which lends new support to the theory that humans also have the ability to "sniff out" suitable ...
Aug 04, 2010 |
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Turning viruses into molecular Legos
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have turned a benign virus into an engineering tool for assembling structures that mimic collagen, one of the most important structural proteins in nature. ...
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Researchers solve color mystery of blue-feathered penguins
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from The University of Akron and their colleagues have made an out-of-the-blue discovery.
Feb 10, 2011 |
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Women attracted to men in red, research shows
What could be as alluring as a lady in red? A gentleman in red, finds a multicultural study published Aug. 2 in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 02, 2010 |
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Opposites attract: Monkeys choose mating partners with different genes
The world's largest species of monkey 'chooses' mates with genes that are different from their own to guarantee healthy and strong offspring, according to a new research study.
Nov 24, 2009 |
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New national park protects world's rarest gorilla
The Wildlife Conservation Society, the Government of Cameroon, and other partners have collaborated to create a new national park to help protect the world's most endangered great ape: the Cross River gorilla.
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Nov 26, 2008 |
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Pattern of Human Ebola Outbreaks Linked to Wildlife and Climate
A visiting biologist at the University of California, San Diego and her colleagues in Africa and Britain have shown that there are close linkages between outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in human and wildlife ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 14, 2006 |
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