Duke Primate Center Sets October Expedition To Find 'Juliet'
.... Prosimians, or "submonkeys," are descended from primates thatalso were ancestors to the anthropoids, a suborder that includes monkeys,apes and humans. Thus, studying prosimians can yield insights into the earlyhistory of human ancestors. Lemurs, isolated on Madagascar for more than 50 million years, evolv...'Juliet' Evades Primate Center Expedition
.... Prosimians, or "submonkeys," are descended from primates thatalso were ancestors to the anthropoids, a suborder that includes monkeys,apes and humans. Thus, studying prosimians can yield insights into the earlyhistory of human ancestors. Lemurs, isolated on Madagascar for more than 50 million years, evolv...Researchers Discover First Animal Strain Of Hepatitis E Virus
...> also has been documented in primates and swine. To explore the nature of these infections in pigs, Xiang-Jin Meng, M.D., Ph.D., working with Dr. Purcell and their LID colleague Suzanne U. Emerson, Ph.D., scre...Captive Lemurs To Depart For Madagascar Oct. 17 For First Release Into The Wild
...al release groupsof the long-tailed, tree-climbing primates now live in two U.S. research and breeding habitats: the Duke PrimateCenter and a Wildlife Conservation Society site on St. Catherine's Island off the coast of Georgia. "This is a beginning, but it is only a beginning," said Andrea Katz, Duke Primat...Colorado State Anthropologist Finds Fossil Treasures In Africa
... this kind and there really is no fossil record of primates at all. Many fossil sites may only produce a fewfossils. "This is really impressive because it's like a big pile of bones glued together." Waddle said the main reason that not much is known about the evolutionary history of this region is the remot...Colon Cancer Linked To Genes, Not Lifestyle
...any other geriatric diseases in primates appear to be natural outcomes of aging, rather than being caused by outside factors, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has found. The findings, reported recently in Age and ...Births Of Rare Lemurs At Duke Primate Center
...rsiers Prosimians descended from primitive primates that were also ancestors toanthropoids, which includes monkeys, apes and humans. Thus, by studyingprosimians, scientists can obtain analogous insights into the early history ofapes and humans. ----- The Primate Center has launched a "...Despite Odds, Little Known Grauer's Gorillas Persist In Central Africa
...yx, reveals that the population ofthese mysterious primates has remained surprisingly stabledespite growing human pressures. Conservationists warn,however, that local populations have become increasinglythreatened due to political instability, hunting and deforestation. The research team, led by biologists fr......about 360nanometers, more than humans or old world primates (apes and pack monkeys),which have the widest natural vision range of any mammal, says Crognale. Somebirds, insects and fish have even wider vision ranges. The researchers hope to use the mice to investigate a number ofscientific questions. C...News Backgrounder: Duke Primate Center Successfully Fosters Mysterious Aye-Ayes
...ye's future survival,because understanding how the primates forage naturally is a key to preservingthat ability. Such foraging will be literally a life or death skill ifcaptive-born aye-ayes are ever to be returned to the wild. "We now have enough of these young animals reaching maturity so that wecan...Fruit-Eating Birds Discovered Crucial To Rainforest Survival
...er important seed dispersers such as elephants and primates continue todecline in the region due to habitat destruction and hunting, hornbills becomeeven more important for rain forest regrowth and survival. "The survival of the rainforest appears to rely to a large degree on thehornbills' ability to dispers...Could A 'Vaccine' Made From Our Own Cells Work Against HIV?
...Noclinical trails have yet begun, though a test in primates is already under way. Some experts warn that the approach may be too expensive for mass use,however. "This would be a very complex way to vaccinate," says Robert Brunham,an infectious disease researcher at the University of Manitoba in Winni...Monkeys Have Numerical Abilities, Two Columbia Psychologists Report
...ling view, which dates to Descartes,that non-human primates cannot think because they cannot use language. It alsochallenges the views of B.F. Skinner, the noted behaviorist and Prof. Terrace'smentor at Harvard, who held that all examples of animal intelligence were simplyconditioned behavior that didn't req...Hopkins Study Shows Brain Damage Evidence In "Ecstasy" Users
...MDMA was dangerous, based on our earlier studiesin primates that showed nerve damage at doses similar to those taken byrecreational drug users," says neurologist George Ricaurte, M.D., Ph.D., who ledthe research team. Additional studies by the team examined drug users' spinalfluid for levels of a serotonin by...Veterinary Researchers Identify Accomplice Of Calf-Killing Parasite
...ora, Lindsay says,although experimentally infected primates have demonstrated their suitability ashost organisms. Besides domestic and stray dogs, coyotes and foxes are also believed toharbor the organism, Lindsay said. While the discovery provides sound scientific justification for the newca...... of viruses that cause severeimmunodeficiencies in primates and that have been found in numerous AIDSpatients, particularly in Africa. Results of those studies are awaitingpublication....Walker named a Fellow of the British Royal Society
...f the world's foremost experts on the evolution of primates andhumans. His research involves searching for pr...hem as possible. He pioneered the study of living primates asa basis for the analysis of fossils and was one of the first to use scanningelectron microscope st...Yerkes researchers find primate face recognition can be purely visual
... and Frans de Waal, describe the first evidence in primates for an extensionof these face recognition abilities to kin recognition that is purely visual andindependent of previous experience with the individuals in question. Parr and deWaal demonstrate that chimpanzees, using a computerized joystick program, ......e duplication. Theability of humans and Old World primates to distinguish between short-, middle-,and long-wa...mans. In contrast to Old World primates, New World primates (such as marmosets)generally possess only two opsin genes, one for short-wave opsin and onecorrespon......study of calorierestriction and aging in non-human primates is in its infancy, as comparedto the body of work ...s. The work is beingconducted in several groups of primates whose calorie intake for the pastfive to 10 years has been reduced by about 30 percent, as well as m...