As part of a long-term study of wild vervet monkeys using state of the art bio-logging technology, research led by Nottingham Trent University has for the first time recorded the birth temperatures of wild primates.
Plants & Animals
Jan 27, 2022
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Eavesdropping doesn't just belong in the playbooks of police officers and spies. It is also a phenomenon that plays out among animals. Previous studies have shown that certain species, especially birds, listen to each other ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 10, 2021
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The 10-year-old took off running down a dirt road in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, turning cartwheels, playing tag and picking fistfuls of wild bougainvillea.
Ecology
Nov 22, 2021
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A colony of wild monkeys in Dania Beach soon may get a permanent home, complete with fences, medical care and regular meals.
Plants & Animals
Oct 27, 2021
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Monkeys suffering from a fever are twice as likely to be the victims of aggression from members of their own social group looking to advance their dominance, according to the first study to monitor fevers in wild primates ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 22, 2021
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Some primate species may express grief over the death of their infant by carrying the corpse with them, sometimes for months, according to a new UCL-led study—with implications for our understanding of how non-human animals ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 15, 2021
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Deprived of their preferred food source—the bananas, peanuts and other goodies brought in by tourists now kept away by the coronavirus—hungry monkeys on the resort island of Bali have taken to raiding villagers' homes ...
Ecology
Sep 3, 2021
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A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has found that like humans, rhesus macaques can choke when facing a high-stakes situation. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the ...
Ever since humans began committing their view of the world to flat slabs of rock and papyrus, we had a sense that our mental maps are laid out in much the same way. However, our mental maps are nothing like paper maps. Humans ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 13, 2021
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By analyzing the relative proportion of different plant parts consumed by primates, researchers suggest that primates may be intricately and subtly shaped by two key families of plants: Moraceae and Fabaceae. The study, led ...
Evolution
Jun 16, 2021
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