News tagged with monkeys
Nanomedicine: Quantum dots appear safe in pioneering study on primates
A pioneering study to gauge the toxicity of quantum dots in primates has found the tiny crystals to be safe over a one-year period, a hopeful outcome for doctors and scientists seeking new ways to battle diseases ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 20, 2012 |
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See Dan read: Baboons can learn to spot real words
Dan the baboon sits in front of a computer screen. The letters BRRU pop up. With a quick and almost dismissive tap, the monkey signals it's not a word. Correct. Next comes, ITCS. Again, not a word. Finally ...
Apr 12, 2012 |
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Pregnant gelada monkeys abort when new male enters group
(PhysOrg.com) -- Pregnant female geladas show an unusually high rate of miscarriage the day after the dominant male in their group is replaced by a new male, a new University of Michigan study indicates.
Feb 23, 2012 |
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Monkeys with larger friend networks have more gray matter
New research in the UK on rhesus macaque monkeys has found for the first time that if they live in larger groups they develop more gray matter in parts of the brain involved in processing information on social ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 04, 2011 |
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Programmer has fun with monkeys typing Shakespeare theory
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes you just have to shake your head at some experiments done in the name of science, and go with the flow, or as Jesse Anderson puts it on his blog, “Keep Calm and Carry On.” He’s conducting an experiment, for fun, to see if he ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 28, 2011 |
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Funding for nonhuman primate research questioned
A major review of nonhuman primate use in medical research has been conducted in the UK by Professor Sir Patrick Bateson, who is the president of the Zoological Society of London and an ethnologist from Cambridge University, ...
Jul 28, 2011 |
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Rhesus monkeys have a form of self awareness not previously attributed to them
In the first study of its kind in an animal species that has not passed a critical test of self-recognition, cognitive psychologist Justin J. Couchman of the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that rhesus ...
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Male New World monkeys attract females by washing in urine
(PhysOrg.com) -- Male capuchin monkeys have been observed to urinate on their hands and then rub the urine vigorously into their fur, and now a new study by scientists in Texas suggests the behavior signals ...
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Monkeys demonstrate self-awareness in computer game
(PhysOrg.com) -- It has been widely assumed that only humans are aware of their own thinking, but a new study in macaques by US scientists shows some monkeys are also self-aware.
Feb 22, 2011 |
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Scientists discover gene regulation mechanism unique to primates
Scientists have discovered a new way genes are regulated that is unique to primates, including humans and monkeys. Though the human genome – all the genes that an individual possesses – was sequenced 10 years ago, ...
Feb 09, 2011 |
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How chimps, monkeys and humans compare on a level playing field
(PhysOrg.com) -- A problem faced by scientists comparing the mental abilities of humans, chimpanzees, apes, and monkeys is that the humans are tested by their own species and understand the requirements of the tests, while ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 09, 2011 |
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Scientists find explanation for blindsight
(PhysOrg.com) -- The rare phenomenon of blindsight has been known for a long time, but until now has never been understood. People with blindsight are effectively blind through damage to the primary visual ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 25, 2010 |
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Multitasking is no problem for these brain cells: Individual brain cells can ID both cars and cats
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory found that single brain cells, if confronted with a difficult task, can identify objects as dissimilar as sports cars and dogs.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Advanced Robotic Arm Controlled by Monkey’s Thoughts (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have demonstrated a monkey controlling an advanced robotic arm by using its thoughts. The experiments were led by Dr. Andrew Schwartz, a professor ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jun 03, 2010 |
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Binge drinking adolescent monkeys' brains seriously damaged by alcohol
(PhysOrg.com) -- Binge drinking is increasing in adolescents, and new research has shown long-lasting damage to an important area in the brains of adolescent monkeys after binge alcohol consumption, and suggests binge drinking ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 02, 2010 |
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Monkey
Cebidae Aotidae Pitheciidae Atelidae Cercopithecidae
A monkey is any cercopithecoid (Old World monkey) or platyrrhine (New World monkey) primate. All primates that are not prosimians (lemurs and tarsiers) or apes are monkeys. The 264 known extant monkey species represent two of the three groupings of simian primates (the third group being the 21 species of apes). Monkeys are usually smaller and/or longer-tailed than apes.
The New World monkeys are classified within the parvorder Platyrrhini, whereas the Old World monkeys (superfamily Cercopithecoidea) form part of the parvorder Catarrhini, which also includes the apes. Thus, scientifically speaking, monkeys are paraphyletic (not a single coherent group), and Old World monkeys are actually more closely related to the apes than they are to the New World monkeys.
Due to its size (up to 1 m/3 ft) the Mandrill is often thought to be an ape, but it is actually an Old World monkey. Also, a few monkey species have the word "ape" in their common name.
For more information about Monkey, read the full article at
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