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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “primates”

 

• Squee Spree: Squirrel Monkey vs. Gorilla

  
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  Images from: Cincinnati Zoo(top) & Warsaw Zoo(bottom) Which primate will it be: the tiny Squirrel Monkey, or the (one day) huge Gorilla? Squee Spree! What will it be? Squee! Spotter:Unknown Tagged: monkey , primates , squee spree , gorilla Share ...
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• Primate Hibernation More Common Than Previously Thought

  
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  Until recently, the only primate known to hibernate as a survival strategy was a creature called the western fat-tailed dwarf lemur, a tropical tree-dweller from the African island of Madagascar. But it turns out this hibernating lemur isn’t alone. In a study appearing May 2 in the journal Scientific Reports, ...
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• The ability to understand numbers is shared by man and his primate cousins

  
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  Opposing thumbs, expressive faces, complex social systems: it’s hard to miss the similarities between apes and humans. Now a new study with a troop of zoo baboons and lots of peanuts shows that a less obvious trait—the ability to understand numbers—also is shared by man and his primate cousins.  ”The human ...
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• Coming Attractions for JUNE 2013

  
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  COMICS IN YOUR FUTURE! From the new Previews
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• Mental Floss recently posted a fascinating selection of tattoos...

  
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  Mental Floss recently posted a fascinating selection of tattoos on teachers. This one, depicting an enraged Charles Darwin wielding an even angrier King Kong while being menaced by planes, is our favourite. It’s on the leg of a Massachusetts science teacher named Chris: Chris writes , “I teach science at a ...
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• Chemical Safety Testing On Animals May Not Be Valid For Humans, Recent Study Finds

  
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  A Wistar laboratory rat ( image credit: Janet Stephens, photog .) Since Congress mandated testing of new medicines and chemicals on animals back in 1937, billions of laboratory animals have been subjected to a vast number of chemicals and medicinal compounds — all under the entrenched belief that this “safety ...
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• Lack of understanding on residents monkey problem

  
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  Straits Times Forum 8 May 13;MANY people do not understand the real problems posed by monkeys that roam around residential estates ("Learn to co-exist with wildlife" by Mr Daniel Koh Kah Soon; Forum Online, last Saturday). Calling for humans to co-exist peacefully with monkeys is unrealistic.Monkeys usually move ...
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• A baboon reconstructed according to the modern principles of...

  
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  A baboon reconstructed according to the modern principles of dinosaur reconstruction (as depicted in Darren Naish’s book All Yesterdays ) compared to an actual baboon. In other words, what we think dinosaurs looked like is probably not what dinosaurs actually looked like.  
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• Featured video: If I were a panda...

  
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  A new powerful video by the conservation program, APES, highlights the threat faced by many species: not being cute enough. The creative short video was produced pro bono by Ogilvy & Mather Chicago.
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• Indonesia: Sumatran orangutans rainforest home faces new threat

  
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  Angela Dewan AFP Yahoo News 5 May 13;A baby Sumatran orangutan swings playfully on a branch at an Indonesian rescue centre, a far cry from the terror he endured when his pristine rainforest home was razed to the ground.Now alarm is growing at a plan activists say will open up new swathes of virgin forest on Sumatra ...
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• Lemur has unexpectedly wide range, diversity of color variations

  
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  An endangered lemur has a larger range than originally believed but is still at risk due to forest fragmentation and land clearing, reports a study published in the journal Primate Conservation .
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• Hibernating primates: scientists discover three lemur species sleep like bears

  
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  Bears do it, bats do it, and now we know lemurs do it too: hibernate, that is. Since 2005, scientists have known that the western fat-tailed dwarf lemur hibernates, but a new study in Scientific Reports finds that hibernation is more widespread among lemurs than expected. At least two additional lemur ...
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• Endangered primates and cats may be hiding out in swamps and mangrove forests

  
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  What happens to animals when their forest is cut down? If they can, they migrate to different forests. But in an age when forests are falling far and fast, many species may have to shift to entirely different environments. A new paper in Folia Primatologica theorizes that some 60 primate species and 20 wild cat ...
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• Harvard Research Center Closes After Death of 4 Monkeys

  
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  The death of four monkeys, since 2010 seems, to be enough to force the New England Primate Research Center at  Harvard to close its doors, by 2015, after these deaths drew significant government warnings. The center’s officials don’t cite the warnings as the reason behind the closing, but rather financial ...
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• Drill baby drill! The fate of African biodiversity and the monkey youve never heard of

  
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  Equatorial Guinea is not a country that stands very large in the American consciousness. In fact most Americans think you mean Papua New Guinea when you mention it or are simply baffled. When I left for Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea, I also knew almost nothing about the island, the nation, or the Bioko drills ( ...
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• Primate Safari in Rwanda: My Dream Trip

  
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  Photo courtesy of Amahoro Tours I’m soooooo excited to announce that as I write this I am about to begin my dream trip, something I’ve waited years and years for…..a Primate Safari in Rwanda!  I love primates so much that I even hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Primatology (study of primates) and have ...
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• Tubs of Fun

  
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  I lack the progressive fervor for buggery, so if I were President I would never call and congratulate someone for being a homosexualist. I would, however, call and congratulate someone for  squandering his life savings on a carnival game in exchange for a giant-stuffed-Rastafarian banana with dreadlocks. Partly ...
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• Conservation without supervision: Peruvian community group creates and patrols its own protected area

  
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  When we think of conservation areas, many of us think of iconic National Parks overseen by uniformed government employees or wilderness areas purchased and run from afar by big-donor organizations like The Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation Society, WWF, or Conservation International. But what happens to ...
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• Gorilla: Eastern & Western

  
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  What Is A Gorilla? The gorilla is the largest genus of primates, and the closest living relatives to humans (after the bonobo and common chimpanzees). The animals are ground-dwelling apes that inhabit various tropical and subtropical forests across Africa.  Their overall range covers a fairly insignificant portion ...
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• Harvard to Shut Down Primate Research Center

  
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  In a surprise move, Harvard Medical School has announced that it will be shutting down the New England Primate Research Center (NEPRC) over the next two years, citing shifting priorities and challenges in obtaining external funding as  main reasons. The Medical School said in a statement that after reviewing “the ...
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