Great apes and COVID-19: Experts raise the alarm for endangered species
Primate experts warn that the global human health emergency of COVID-19 also threatens our closest living relatives—endangered great apes.
Primate experts warn that the global human health emergency of COVID-19 also threatens our closest living relatives—endangered great apes.
Evolution
Apr 6, 2020
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Apes in U.S. zoos host bacterial communities in their intestinal tracts that are more similar to those of people who eat a non-Western diet than to the gut makeup of their wild ape cousins, according to a new study from Washington ...
Evolution
Apr 6, 2020
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Poaching and habitat loss have decimated Indonesia's orangutan population, but now coronavirus has emerged as another potential deadly threat to the critically endangered species.
Ecology
Apr 4, 2020
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Rwanda, land of a thousand invisible hills. It's an overcast morning in Kigali, capital of Africa's most densely populated country. The sound of a bamboo broom scraping the tarmac accompanies a solitary sweeper engaged in ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 10, 2020
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Studying the inner ear of apes and humans could uncover new information on our species' evolutionary relationships, suggests a new study published today in eLife.
Plants & Animals
Mar 3, 2020
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Under JST's Strategic Basic Research Programs, Noda Nobuo and Yamasaki Akinori at the Institute of Microbial Chemistry, in collaboration with other researchers, have discovered that autophagy is effective for selectively ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 13, 2020
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Four endangered mountain gorillas, including three adult females, have been killed by an apparent lightning strike in a Ugandan national park, a conservation group has said.
Ecology
Feb 9, 2020
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One of them worked alongside Clint Eastwood, others acted in the remake of sci-fi classic "Planet of the Apes", while yet another was the darling favorite of Michael Jackson.
Plants & Animals
Jan 29, 2020
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Acting selflessly to help others in need was long thought to be a trait confined to mammals, in particular humans and some great ape species like bonobos and orangutans.
Plants & Animals
Jan 9, 2020
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Psychologist observing two chimpanzees in a zoo have discovered that they performed a behaviour hitherto never seen, they coordinated together in a rhythmic social ritual.
Plants & Animals
Dec 12, 2019
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