Drug-resistant bacteria found in the guts of lemurs who live around humans
Antibiotic resistance, which the CDC calls one of the world's most urgent public health crises, is now being found in the guts of lemurs, our distant primate cousins.
Antibiotic resistance, which the CDC calls one of the world's most urgent public health crises, is now being found in the guts of lemurs, our distant primate cousins.
Plants & Animals
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Using an unusually well-preserved subfossil jawbone, a team of researchers—led by Penn State and with a multi-national team of collaborators including scientists from the Université d'Antananarivo in Madagascar—has sequenced ...
Evolution
Jun 24, 2021
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A new study by WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) looks at the prevalence of human consumption of lemur and fossa (Madagascar's largest predator) in villages within and around Makira Natural Park, northeastern Madagascar, ...
Plants & Animals
May 13, 2021
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In one Madagascar forest, the trees teem with lemurs. In another forest just 150 miles away, the last few individuals of a small local population may soon be lost.
Plants & Animals
Mar 31, 2021
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Lemurs can use their sense of smell to locate fruit hidden more than 50 feet away in the forest—but only when the wind blows the fruit's aroma toward them, according to a study published in the American Journal of Physical ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 15, 2021
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If you binged on high-calorie snacks and then spent the winter crashed on the couch in a months-long food coma, you'd likely wake up worse for wear. Unless you happen to be a fat-tailed dwarf lemur.
Plants & Animals
Mar 12, 2021
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Humans aren't the only mammals that form long-term bonds with a single, special mate—some bats, wolves, beavers, foxes and other animals do, too. But new research suggests the brain circuitry that makes love last in some ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 12, 2021
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Primates process visual information in front of their eyes, similar to pixels in a digital camera, using small computing units located in the visual cortex of their brains. In order to understand the origins of our visual ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 3, 2020
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Chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans are our closest relatives, and like us they have relatively large brains and they are very intelligent. But do animals with larger brains really perform better in cognitive tests? A research ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 25, 2020
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Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot. In the last 20 years new lemur species have been discovered while forested habitats have been quickly disappearing. Recent reports by the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation ...
Plants & Animals
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