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A pet primate is on the loose in South Carolina
WCOV FOX 20· 6 days agoThe Colleton County Sheriff’s Office advised residents in a Facebook post on Friday that a primate is loose somewhere in the Walterboro area, 48 miles...
Surprising Evolutionary Insights Revealed by First Complete Chromosome Sequences From Great Apes
SciTechDaily· 2 days agoComplete X and Y chromosome sequences from six different primate species have been successfully...
Smarter foragers do not forage smarter
Science Daily· 3 days agoThe study, published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, upends the traditional view that a large brain is needed to make smart decisions when finding food. According to the leading ...
Why did primates evolve such big brains?
The Raw Story· 1 day agoThanks to our large brains, humans and non-human primates are smarter than most mammals. The leading hypothesis for how primates evolved large brains involves ...
Cotswold Wildlife Park's Lemur Week marked by 70th breeding success
BBC via AOL· 6 days agoCotswold Wildlife Park, near Burford, Oxfordshire...officially opened in 2008. Lemurs are native to...
Mexico Is So, Hot Monkeys Are Falling to Their Death From Trees
Wired News· 6 days agoThe response teams also emphasize that the species is very delicate: They should not be given...
New method for modeling free-ranging animal populations finds macaque numbers smaller than expected
Phys.org· 4 days agoZhu said accurately estimating population sizes for free-ranging animals using non-invasive methods,...
Are pet dogs and cats the weak link in bird flu surveillance?
Los Angeles Times· 1 day agoWhen researchers talk about their biggest bird flu fears, one that typically comes up involves an...
Progress on the science of menstruation—at last
The Economist· 2 days agoIn 77AD, Pliny the Elder claimed that contact with menstrual blood would turn crops barren and drive dogs mad. A medieval medical text warned that the...
