Similar work in primates, however, had always failed, leading some experts to wonder if primates were resistant.
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In addition to preventing unintended pregnancies in populations of primates living in captivity (which is why they're given the pill in the first place), giving primates the pill also sets the stage for some interesting research into how male primates respond to female primates, sexually, when the females are on the pill.
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The numbers: In 2016, there were 109,821 primates in labs in the US. In 2003, 59% of primates were kept alone in cages.
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As described in a paper published Monday in Nature, researchers at Shinshu University have found that they can induce cardiac self-repair in primates via transplanted stem cells from other primates.
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These lived shortly after a dramatic episode of global climate change that brought cooler, drier conditions that triggered the extinction of all primates in North America and Europe and devastated Asia's primates.
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The primates are affected by the same watershed that impacts the fish and in addition, primates in the area are known to sneak into neighboring farms to eat seeds and crops at night.
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Even primates like us — think of people on a train.
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In primates, testis size is inversely correlated with harem formation.
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It's kinda like that film Knocked Up, but with primates.
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It's looked promising in trials done in rabbits and primates.
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"And it's our job as primates to figure this out."
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As such, they've only studied it in humans and primates.
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Before the temperatures dropped, Asia's primates were dominated by anthropoids.
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The same tests have been simulated with primates as well.
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I watch the primates interact through their sliding glass doors.
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These two are not the first primates to be cloned.
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The new research was not all bad news for primates.
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The incentives to kill primates are not only local, though.
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Ms. Jelbert thought that the test might be biased toward primates.
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The primates also exhibited lower rates of cancer and heart disease.
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Same goes for nonhuman primates, though the contexts are obviously different.
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This is another fascinating example of convergence between parrots and primates.
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Do you want to watch primates wielding guns while riding horseback?
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Primates like chimpanzees and orangutans use them to forage for food.
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One group that probably could still arise would actually be primates.
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So you might arguably get Alternate Primates evolving in that world.
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When we lose the primates, we lose a bit of ourselves.
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He's shown that many primates will console one another after fights.
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The contract, awarded to World Wide Primates, is worth $7.58 million.
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Q. The primates still voted overwhelmingly to sanction the Episcopal Church.
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Only humans and other primates can understand the emotions of another.
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"Compared to primates, the cockatoos performed very well," Ms. Habl said.
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Among the primates, the most suggestive cases of remorse concern bonobos.
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I don't believe this has been seen before in non-primates.
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Most female primates in the wild die before they stop cycling.
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Because nonhuman primates like monkeys and chimpanzees are so genetically close to people, researchers working with such primates would have to wait until an embryo was further developed before adding human stem cells, according to the proposal.
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It may be that IVG proves impossibly hard to apply to primates.
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"You see dominance across many species, including many other primates," he said.
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Like humans, primates are complex—and our science has to reflect that.
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Did you know that gibbons are among the fastest of all primates?
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Primates have yet to evolve, and flowers aren't even a thing yet.
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In contrast, other primates' life spans are much shorter and highly variable.
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Think of what that means: Primates are our closest relatives on Earth.
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"You see dominance across many species, including many other primates," he said.
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Chimps and primates are thought to have the most humanlike emotional capacities.
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As primates of African origin, we do not produce alpha-gal, either.
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"I deal with primates every day," he said of his male colleagues.
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For primates, that number is somewhere around 15,000, if not far more.
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Some research in nonhuman primates has linked exposure to dioxins to endometriosis.
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They're still in rodents, and say they're also working with nonhuman primates.
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Researchers are inching toward making them more available, at least in primates.
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Traditionally, the emotion of jealousy was thought to occur only in primates.
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" The American Society of Primatologists agrees: In a statement on private primate ownership, it "discourages all individuals from privately owning primates for non-scientific or non-educational purposes and from breeding and selling or otherwise supplying nonhuman primates.
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In our recent review of geophagy among 136 species of non-human primates, we found evidence that geophagy could be a very important strategy to adapt to the many and increasing stressors that primates in the wild experience.
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Obviously, cigarette smoking is as harmful to primates as it is to humans.
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"Mshindi has settled in nicely," said Ron Evans, Cincinnati Zoo's Curator of Primates.
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In humans and primates, the pontine nuclei are large compared to other mammals.
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Other primates -- the mammalian group, to which humans belong -- are still polygamous, too.
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It was a striking anomaly: just 22008 miles away, primates were perfectly healthy.
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They'd also like to start testing their approach in other animals, including primates.
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They're also working with macaques, old-world trichromatic primates like you and me.
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They are the first primates to be cloned from a non-embryonic cell.
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We're primates, we're social animals, and we're wired for that close, communal connection.
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I mean, without that we're kind of on the level of primates, really.
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These primates often pose a threat to the lives and livelihood of people.
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Some rodents, some primates, but not all, which only adds to the mystery.
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The researchers study the primates' DNA and community behaviors but don't kill them.
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As fellow primates, monkeys are ideal candidates for this type of medical research.
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Junzi means scholarly gentleman, and testifies to how the Chinese regard the primates.
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In the U.S. alone, we experiment on more than 70,85033 primates each year.
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"Primates," critics charged, had been misrepresented by marketers, and by the author herself.
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Food sharing among adult nonhuman primates, such as chimpanzees, is rare, studies show.
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We're learning that a lot of animals — dogs, elephants, other primates — have it.
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Thus far, it has been promising in trials done in rabbits and primates.
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Primates (the non-human variety) threaten equatorial regions of South America, Africa and Asia.
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We think like primates; we make very simple models to rationalize very complicated realities.
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You can add primates to the seemingly ever-growing list of animals facing extinction.
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A new report says 60% of all primates are at risk of dying out.
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Until recently, primates with facial deformities were a rarity, spotted only twice before 218.
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The alpha-gal molecule is found in all mammals except primates, which includes humans.
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Unlike other primates, newborn humans are relatively large compared to the mother's pelvic canal.
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These abilities are highly unusual in animals and very rare indeed in non-primates.
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The space is the only thing the island's human inhabitants share with the primates.
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Researchers believe they've cracked the code for how primates are able to recognize faces.
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Most mammals have alpha-gal in their muscles, but not humans and other primates.
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We may perhaps guess that it feels similar in primates like chimps and gorillas.
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For instance, in many primates, greater social learning is correlated with larger brain size.
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Today's study shows that modern primates are able to create similar tools, however unintentionally.
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Wouldn't this be about as unlikely as us being the only primates with wings?
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He sought to downplay the impact of a potential walk-out by African primates.
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This ability had already evolved in non-primates long before humans began to talk.
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Among primates, the gene that makes this protein has barely changed over the ages.
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Rodents, primates and bats seem to be especially important hosts or reservoirs of pathogens.
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C. carrascoensis' brain proportions offer insight into the history of brain evolution and primates.
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That difference long ago set scientists to debating whether primates could make speechlike sounds.
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Afterward, they were dominated by lemur-like primates, with the monkey-like ones decimated.
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Ebola most commonly affects people and nonhuman primates, such as monkeys, gorillas and chimpanzees.
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Narrator: All primates, including humans, have something in common: We have incredibly bony feet.
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Smoking experiments inflicted on primates by tobacco companies probably take the prize for that.
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Previous studies have shown that other primates, like chimpanzees, can also do fairly simple math.
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That extreme similarity across species could mean this brain rhythm exists in other primates, too.
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The haven was supposed to be a place for the primates to retire in peace.
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But how do other animals, non-primates in particular, experience their physical and social worlds?
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That means the most recent ancestor that all primates and carnivores share had a bacula.
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When the drug was tested in primates, it worked best within five days of infection.
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Second on the list were primates, particularly those in Central America, Africa, and Southwest Asia.
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Evidence of episodic memory has been found in other species, including primates, rats, and pigeons.
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SS: If Disney did Heart of Darkness with animated primates, this would be the pitch.
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And, rare among primates, they are completely carnivorous, preferring live insects to plants and fruits.
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Found only on Madagascar, these 5-pound primates forage for leaves and fruit at night.
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To prosper, the state's primates will have to start living more like south LA's turtles.
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"Like other primates, [humans] often use eye contact in a 'staring contest' manner," he says.
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But eventually some mammals, including primates like us, started spending their lives in social groups.
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There are other animals whose intelligence likely rivals our own: elephants, dolphins, primates, whales, dogs.
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And it happened again, he said, with his boss referring to all Kenyans as primates.
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That discrepancy contributes to higher rates of birthing complications in humans than in other primates.
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The whole dismal effort will do nothing for serious efforts at xenografting pigs, not primates.
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This could help extend the field of animal archaeology, which has previously focused on primates.
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Even the animals got special attention as Berlin zoo fed frozen bananas to its primates.
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But DeSantis's comments fit into an extensive history of calling black people monkeys or primates.
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To date the only other animals to display these kinds of cognitive abilities are primates.
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Many mammals have penile bones, called baculum, including some primates, dogs, cats, bats, and rodents.
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Primates are a key indicator of the overall health of the ecosystems in which they reside.
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Of all mammals exposed to droughts and tropical cyclones, primates have faced the bulk of them.
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In 2014, researchers there were the first to show how CRISPR can be used in primates.
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Along with flat noses and abnormally small nostrils, a number of primates were also missing fingers.
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Some U.S. researchers argue that they cannot develop treatments without the cheap access to Chinese primates.
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Trials on primates have already begun and results are expected by the end of the year.
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Prior to this study, researchers used brain-machine-interfaces (BMIs) to help primates control artificial limbs.
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Elephants and primates quietly attend to, and even engage in caretaking behaviors of, the recently deceased.
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Finally, primates are extremely valuable to science, particularly to the study of our own primate species.
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Nonhuman primates, such as chimpanzees, do not actively give away food that they need for themselves.
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He came up with it in 1993, when he was studying the brains of social primates.
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According to a company statement, the drug has had success fighting Ebola in non-human primates.
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An increasing number of medical labs are housing primates in cages with other monkeys, reports NPR.
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To show these primates had some control over their speech, researchers played a game with Rocky.
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These genetic tweaks were baboon-friendly, allowing a significant degree of immune tolerance among the primates.
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The question now is, are there morally significant differences between the great apes and other primates?
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Risk assessment has previously been documented in dozens of animals, including humans, primates, birds, and insects.
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Primates, our closest relatives, have provided lots of material for researchers studying how groups make decisions.
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Those results would be on the suitability of primates for laboratory tests, not on immediate cures.
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Comparative psychologists have been studying the facial expressions of primates like orangutans and gorillas for years.
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Swinging through trees used to be an experience open only to nonhuman primates at the zoo.
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They argue that other primates can't talk because they lack the right wiring in their brains.
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And the sustained hunting record of these primates is the oldest and longest, the researchers said.
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Post-mortems of primates showed serious lung infections, not unlike those in Londoners of the time.
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"The female [primates] are playing a much more important role than people initially thought," he said.
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Recent research has shown that primates are extremely important to the ecosystems in which they live.
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A parasite infecting the brains of some primates, including perhaps our forebears, may make them less wary.
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In fact, only a few species of animals (other than primates) have a menstrual cycle at all.
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Nonhuman primates have also been taught to communicate with keyboards, expressing themselves through graphics-based, symbolic languages.
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The discovery marks the fourth-observed group of non-human primates that have used stones for tools.
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Dominance hierarchies have been studied for decades in many species like non-human primates (macaques, chimpanzees, etc).
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Then those stem cells were put into the bodies of two primates via a bone marrow transplant.
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In fact, the ratio of raccoon brain size to neuron amount is on par with certain primates.
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Primates play a "very critical" role in their ecosystems and the economies of the countries they inhabit.
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Swiping has become such a pervasive way of finding love that even primates are doing it now.
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Primates are heavily concentrated in a few regions: Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Brazil, and Indonesia.
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Like HIV, Zika originated in central Africa, very rarely infecting human beings, and circulating among rainforest primates.
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The Ebola virus (EBOV) is a rare organism that causes hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates.
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These primates do most of their suckling hidden in their nests, making the behavior difficult to study.
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Consequently, primates could be used as models for understanding early human speech development and human speech evolution.
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It's been studied in humans and non-human primates—mostly monkeys and some of the great apes.
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Ebola threatens wild primates that are already at risk, be it from habitat loss or rampant poaching.
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Experts were also brought in to rule out the possibility that the prints belonged to nonhuman primates.
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"Historically, there's been a lot more interest in sequencing other vertebrates, like livestock and primates," says Stanhope.
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Experts in the acoustics of primates, the team were able to ascertain that this one was unique.
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As a side note, there is of course another byproduct of hunting primates, one that affects humans.
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But other researchers have doubts about the effectiveness of using these primates to model human brain disorders.
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Ebola, which many believe humans first contracted through contact with fruit bats or primates, has killed thousands.
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Non-human primates have had surprisingly little success learning new sounds, while parrots can mimic whole conversations.
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It's his first best seller, after a shelf's worth of books devoted mainly to primates (including humans).
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And not just primates: By the middle of Chapter 6, we're reading about cooperation among leopard coral trout.
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The only other species that form alliances for mating purposes are lions and a few other primates.
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Today a desert, it was, many millions of years ago, a forested swamp teeming with early primates.
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We have a more nurturing spirit, and I think animals—primates in particular—pick up on that.
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Farmers have erected scarecrows in their gardens to keep off the primates, but this has not worked.
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When scientists set up camera traps for North American wildlife, large primates aren't usually their main target.
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"'Your brothers,'" he said his boss exclaimed, urging Mr. Ochieng' to share some bananas with the primates.
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Suggesting a successful black woman is the (radical Muslim) offspring of fictional primates is one of them.
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Its natural reservoir is bats and it has the capacity to spill into other species including primates.
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Among primates, male coercion of females has evolved many times and is expressed in many different ways.
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Mammals that are not primates are said to have fur, while hominids (humans, chimps, orangutans) have hair.
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A monkey was successfully born from sperm that developed in cryopreserved testicular tissue—a first for primates.
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But it is safe to say they are among the most influential nonhuman primates in German history.
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Exactly how primates are exposed to the bacterium, Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis (Bcbva), is not well understood.
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Turns out primates prefer a cuddly fake mother to a fake mother who actually keeps them alive.
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But there's also been research looking at how dogs and non-human primates fit into these categories.
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And in studies of primates, the single most observable preference among females is for novel male partners.
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It's been reported in primates like orangutans and chimpanzees, bottlenose dolphins, and ducks, among many other species.
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Islands have produced miniature elephants, "Hobbit" humans, gigantic birds and rats, and, in this case, sloth-like primates.
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But laughter and laugh-like vocalizations in humans and non-human primates both probably evolved from common ancestry.
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Nonhuman primates cannot speak like us because they don't have human-like vocal cords, which can close fully.
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The drug had showed real promise in tests on primates, but it hadn't been fully tested on humans.
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Non-human primates are very similar to us, so they are key for studying diseases and testing drugs.
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This alteration to its genetic constitution enhanced Ebola's ability to infect the cells of humans and other primates.
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It is thought to have evolved because primates are generally arboreal frugivores, and fruit are often brightly coloured.
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The primates were the first subspecies of chimpanzee to be added to the list of critically endangered apes.
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Slow lorises secrete venom — unique among primates — so their sharp teeth are often extracted to make interaction safe.
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Although there was no restriction on how close we could get to the primates, they wouldn't stay still.
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That synthesis, which was published in 1975 as Sociobiology, included new research on the social behavior of primates.
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Like Us, photographed between 1987 and 1992, spotlights the lives of primates who reside in people's private homes.
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When primates are isolated, she explains, they "go crazy" and pull out their hair, scratch and bite themselves.
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Our advances in space travel and our enterprising spirit of exploration in that way elevates us from primates.
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Many primates are known to practice incest, and female greater horseshoe bats share sex partners with their moms.
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Human trials might take years to conduct, but Khalili said primates are an ideal next step after rodents.
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Unfortunately, primates can be expensive to keep, and the regulations surrounding their use in science are more strict.
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Scientists admit they don't fully understand climate change's impact on primates, but it surely won't help the situation.
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The orangutan joined 53 other primates at the center, including 22 orangutans and 31 chimpanzees, according to CNN.
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About 70,000 other primates are still living their lives as research subjects in labs across the United States.
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Some male primates, for example, use long canine teeth that resemble fangs to intimidate and fight other males.
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The same genetic sequence was not found in other primates, including ancient hominins such as Neanderthals and Denisovans.
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So someone shouldn't walk away from this book thinking democracy is too idealistic for high primates like us?
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We study primates because this kind of animal research has led to some remarkable improvements in human health.
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Our billionaires are funding concert halls and public parks and retirement homes for primates, but not gay rights.
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The men who leer after Candy are truly fatuous primates, fit for little but gibbering at the moon.
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For Children Swinging through trees used to be an experience open only to nonhuman primates at the zoo.
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By the end of the sequence, he has assumed the aspect of one of his own motherless primates.
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"They haven't been the focus of cognitive studies; we've been too focused on our close relations like primates."
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Meet the non-human primates who tell us everything our culture doesn't want to hear about female sexuality.
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In an email interview with Hyperallergic, Fugazzotto explained that primates have been his main subject matter since 2013.
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She and her colleagues identified a number of human activities pushing primates to the edge, such as hunting.
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Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Oxford, posits a link to the grooming rituals of primates.
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The findings presented here "matches and exceeds present evidence for this ability in non-human primates," the authors write.
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The two primates continued to watch throughout the 10 minutes she was breastfeeding, as Elizabeth's mum snapped a picture.
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In attempting to improve their situation, communities were threatening their own existence, as well as that of Gombe's primates.
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Dr. Provine dug in, measuring the different sounds of laughter, its varying cadences and loudness, its presence in primates.
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To that end, scientists have worked to create a vaccine that could be used to help protect wild primates.
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The researchers tested a rabies-derived Ebola vaccine called filorab1, which has been found to be effective in primates.
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But we are pro-social primates, so if we were left alone indefinitely we would expire from sheer loneliness.
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In the future, they think it could also be adapted to work with other primates, like monkeys and gibbons.
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They'll start by collecting the primates' urine, which they'll need a lot of in order to test for chemicals.
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But using intelligence to identify the things you find and keeping your primates well fed staves off the fear.
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But a series of events at the sanctuary eventually pushed Huffman into the practice of painting portraits of primates.
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It was published with an academic paper today in the journal Primates, and was first reported by New Scientist.
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What sets us apart from primates, our nearest cousins, is that we have very complicated control from our brain.
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In fact, the monkeys are highly sensitive to the disease, the most vulnerable of all the primates in Brazil.
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Unfortunately, these tips likely provide little feeling of security to the people living in daily fear of these primates.
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Krista M. MilichAssistant Professor, Biological Anthropology, Washington University in St. LouisI'm a little bit biased, since I study primates.
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The authors found that human muscles are structurally different from chimpanzee muscles — and the muscles of most other primates.
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Like yesterday: Researchers published results to a promising study on primates infected with SIV, a monkey version of HIV.
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These long-legged primates can also rotate their necks a full 180 degrees in either direction, similar to owls.
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The human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, a disease that originated in primates, has killed an estimated 34 million people.
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The population of the endangered primates is slowly rising, and there are now more than 1,000 in the wild.
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Even worse, the NIH's use of primates in experiments involving unrelieved pain and distress increased by over 380 percent.
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If you look at the history of discovering and studying large primates, who has been able to get closer?
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Hochberg says research (on non-human primates at this point) is underway to produce similar wireless mind-controlled devices.
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We're more likely to deal with frustration using a solution entrenched among primates -- taking it out on someone smaller.
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The N.I.H. continues to finance research on other nonhuman primates for studies of neurobiology, metabolic illness and other ailments.
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"We applaud the F.D.A. for ending these wasteful baby monkey nicotine tests and for retiring the primates," he said.
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Its plans called for 3,800 species of plants and animals, including hummingbirds and lemur-like primates called bush babies.
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The only nonhuman animals so far to show the same understanding are primates and a single African gray parrot.
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Latour, in turn, invited Woolgar to spend a few weeks with him studying his primates at the Salk Institute.
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In response to the warning for snakes, the primates reared up on their hind legs and scanned the ground.
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Only 300 of these primates are believed to exist in this small region of rain forest shared with Cameroon.
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While the prospects are dire, Dr. Rylands said there were concrete steps that can be taken to help primates.
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And because primates have such dense brains, all that new brain mass rapidly added a huge number of neurons.
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It took 50 million years for primates as a group to evolve brains with around 30 billion neurons total.
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Imagine the handsome famous monkeys as they engage in the type of coitus only two celeb primates can share.
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Some point to past cases at zoos where officials had managed to retrieve people from gorillas without harming the primates.
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The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation runs several orangutan rehabilitation centers throughout the country that operate like schools for young primates.
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Ring-tailed lemurs are on the list of endangered primates and are under threat partly due to illegal pet trade.
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So, for example, comparing the human brain to other primates, as the brain gets bigger, the number of neurons increases.
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Previous studies have shown that, pound for pound, birds pack more neurons into their tiny brains than mammals, including primates.
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Most of the primates at Davis are rhesus macaques, although the university is also home to about 1oo titi monkeys.
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The tariff would apply to a wide range of products, from live buffalo and primates to T-shirts and shoes.
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The aye-ayes also have relatively longer snouts compared to other primates, and brain cases similar in shape to squirrels'.
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While the initial results are promising, regulatory changes and attitudes toward medical research conducted on primates could prevent further tests.
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Unlike other primates though, humans can articulate their emotions, sexual arousal and habits to scientists providing data for future research.
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Using electrodes hooked to the primates' visual cortices, the researchers track the nerve pulses produced in response to the stimuli.
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The result is that facial details jump out at viewers, communicating that these primates are very complex and social beings.
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Among primates, researchers discovered the presence of cryptochrome 1 in orangutans, the rhesus macaque, the crab-eating macaque, and others.
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A new study shows that, pound for pound, birds pack more neurons into their small brains than mammals, including primates.
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The study authors say the findings are promising and they are now testing the CRISPR-LASER ART combination on primates.
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Very limited data from monkeys show the biological processes underway during post-implantation are substantially different in primates like us.
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This new study suggests they probably did, and that tree dwelling behavior remained a fixture among primates until relatively recently.
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Each of the three primates are amputees, having had limbs removed after suffering injuries between four and 10 years ago.
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Unfortunately, however, the desired similarities shared among humans and other primates raises important ethical questions in regards to animal suffering.
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Among primates, especially great apes, there is compelling evidence from behavioral and physiological responses to death that they do grieve.
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This kind of facial communication has only been observed before in domesticated dogs and some species of primates, said Taylor.
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Fox found a way to bring the primates back again in 2011 with Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
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"Harambe was killed by a zoo which raises revenues by selling tickets to see captive animals, including primates," she said.
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As I've documented in my own research, on top of this physical harm, primates in laboratories endure immense psychological trauma.
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Disney's take on the iconic tale of a young boy raised by primates is enjoyable for a lot of reasons.
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The mutation, the scientists found, made the viruses much more successful at attacking human cells and those of other primates.
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US entities who conducted bio-medical testing on primates in Africa, should continue support for the animals they profited from.
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It was pretty obvious he was heading down this path when Chris flipped over one of Mally Mall's pet primates.
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Female birds have one short and one long sex chromosome, negating the backup chromosome protection found in primates and humans.
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As it turned out, however, making the jump from cloning sheep to cloning primates proved far more difficult than anticipated.
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Trilobites Long-lived and clever parrots may be as different genetically from other birds as humans are from other primates.
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And the only nonhuman animals so far to pass the kind of test bees did are primates and one bird.
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There was evidence that very high doses of ibogaine could damage the cerebellum in rats and cause seizures in primates.
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Matter Primates are unquestionably clever: Monkeys can learn how to use money, and chimpanzees have a knack for game theory.
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"People used to think of primates as icing on the cake, as not being vital for ecosystems," said Dr. MacKinnon.
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The first primates evolved roughly 80 million years ago, and then split into the living lineages over millions of years.
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They show for the first time that mammals other than primates can use the brain cortex to control their sounds.
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Of significance, ancestors of simian primates, such as gorillas, gibbons, and tamarins, were among the first to reject the night life.
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"Today, Harambe is making his debut in the gorilla habitat!" says narrator and Curator of Primates, Ron Evans, in the video.
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The primates are a diverse order that include apes -- our closest biological relatives -- as well as monkeys, lemurs, lorises and tarsiers.
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A paper based on the short-term results of gene editing in primates could be published within the year, he said.
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"It's something that we know that other primates don't do," said psychologist Mark Nielsen, of the University of Queensland in Australia.
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All of the observed primates and their deformities were described in a recent study published in Science of the Total Environment.
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Some researchers wondered if the primates had succumbed to yaws – a tropical, bacterial infection that can result in similar facial deformities.
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Roughly 80% of all imported nonhuman primates used in scientific research in the U.S. come from China, according to the NABR.
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Under scrutiny from animal rights organizations, researchers have long argued that nonhuman primates are essential for developing treatments for human diseases.
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Thane Maynard, the director of the Cincinnati Zoo, said the primates have enough strength to crush a coconut with one hand.
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"You see, most primates, and indeed many mammals, have at least some spines on their penises," Hawks explains on his website.
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With the exception of anthropoid primates like us, most diurnal mammals possess traits that should only be found in nocturnal species.
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Credit: Duke Health/Nature Neuroscience Unlike previous experiments in which primates controlled robotic limbs, the monkeys weren't pre-trained with joysticks.
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Humans and primates share a lot in common, but when it comes to our use of language, we're clearly set apart.
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Hires cautions: "Showing safety and efficacy in primates is an important next step before we see this technology in the clinic."
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Image: Julia FischerResearchers in Senegal recently flew drones in the vicinity of green monkeys to see how the primates might respond.
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The order of primates has one of the largest numbers of species of all orders of mammals, behind bats and rodents.
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Through her eloquence and perseverance, Dr. Goodall has saved numerous primates and has helped keep them from the brink of extinction.
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Anglican primates usually meet every two years, but have not convened since 2011, largely because of an ongoing dispute about homosexuality.
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That's a profound conclusion, which would be impossible to reach if there are no primates to study in the first place.
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Corvids are a technologically advanced branch on the tree of life with skills that often match those of primates like us.
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He introduces what he calls the rule of "cognitive ripples": We tend to notice intelligence in primates because it's most conspicuous.
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Boisei acted as the in-between agent for genital herpes to make the species jump from primates to humans, researchers say.
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Several users compared her to primates, including Harambe, the male gorilla who was shot dead in May at a Cincinnati zoo.
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Although other labs have worked with non-human primates or partially paralyzed participants, his study helped someone who is completely paralyzed.
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Primates are humans' closest relatives, and according to a new study, we're systematically wiping them off the face of the planet.
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The habitat of the few hundred remaining red-shanked douc langur primates is Son Tra Mountain (also known as Monkey Mountain).
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The first primates that swung down from the forest canopy may have been in search of fermented fruit, kick-starting evolution.
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Trilobites They are solitary mammals, but like primates and people, they seem to be able to read one another's facial expressions.
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Still, the techniques used to make those clones are not new, and other researchers previously had initiated the process in primates.
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These results build on studies in non-human primates, which showed the vaccine was safe and completely protected them from Ebola.
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In some ways, the long-lived feathered friends are as genetically different from other birds as humans are from other primates.
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Humans have also lost the baculum, a little bone inside of the penis of many animals, like bats, rodents, and primates.
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"Unity shown by the primates here is going to be costly because we have deep differences," Welby told a news conference.
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After all, humans did not evolve into upright primates just so we could sprawl over molded-plastic seats on the subway.
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She would soon become the world's foremost expert on the primates, but in 1985 she was murdered in her cabin home.
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In particular, Begun doesn't agree that Nyanzapithecines should be recognized as a distinct group, or that they were more modern than other known primates from the time, namely Proconsul (an extinct genus of primates that lived between 23 to 25 million years ago) and Ekembo (a similar genus that lived 20 to 17 million years ago).
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According to the San Antonio Express-News, the sanctuary in Cotulla is the largest in the country which holds about 550 primates.
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Observations of primates and isolated tribes suggest that humans' patriarchal order may have evolved by accident rather than out of evolutionary necessity.
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"A standard tradition is to let the animals enjoy a bit of Halloween," Daniel Simmonds, head of primates at London Zoo, said.
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When signing, Koko and other primates express a word here or there, sometimes stringing several words together to express more complicated meanings.
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Seven primates, including the Bornean Orangutan and the Eastern Lowland Gorilla, are currently listed as critically endangered by the World Wildlife Fund .
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To end his visit, Elmo hung out with a two-toed sloth at a separate enclosure for primates called the Fragile Forest.
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"All of these are common ways of making vaccines, and all of these Zika vaccines worked in nonhuman primates," Michael told me.
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Primates in Cameroon and other African countries are targeted by hunters to be killed and eaten as part of the "bushmeat" trade.
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Her work with primates led to a larger interest in conservation, as she became increasingly aware of the dangers of rapid deforestation.
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They picked primates and carnivores because both groups contain some species whose males have a baculum and others whose males do not.
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Seeing the dangers the drill monkey faced, Jenkins and wife Liza Gadsby created Pandrillus, an organization designed to protect the rare primates.
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Over the last several years, she has been painting large-scale hyper-realistic portraits of the various primates at Ape Action Africa.
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The number of nonhuman primates tested in U.S. labs increased by 22% from 2015 to 2017, according to the Department of Agriculture.
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The ring-tailed lemur is a Madagascar native and one of the 25 most endangered primates in the world, the release said.
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As zoo staff members, aided by animal control and police, worked to round up the primates, Isaac was nowhere to be found.
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For primates, this built-in compass may help with bodily orientation, or it could be a vestigial evolutionary trait that's largely unused.
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These friendships help individuals thrive: chimps and other primates who are more socially connected are found to have more offspring, Crockford says.
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But the archbishops' resolution fell short of the demands of conservative primates to evict the Americans and the Canadians from the Communion.
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Explorer On a father-daughter trip to see primates in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda (strenuous hike required), it's all about connection.
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See, primates like us have a low resting metabolism: When we kick back, we burn half as many calories as other mammals.
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Tinder for primates may not be a totally new phenomenon, but it's not every day you see one actually swiping through suitors.
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When chimpanzee studies were subjected to this analysis, it was determined that experiments on these primates could be performed in other ways.
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The reasons primates are dying aren't surprising: Deforestation via logging, mining, agriculture, oil exploration, and hunting are identified as the top reasons.
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I can't read a comment section without seeing Black women being called n-----s, being slut-shamed, or being compared to primates.
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"What I think (is) more incredible is the resilience of these human primates, our staff and other Puerto Ricans," Snyder-Mackler said.
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Anthropologist Meredith Small has noted that the single most documented preference across species of female primates is ... a taste for sexual novelty.
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Unlike primates, which change behavior and appearance to advertise when they are in heat and ovulating, burying beetles broadcast the opposite information.
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So it's telling us that the speed of achievement of brain enlargement in primates was a little slower than perhaps we thought.
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In general, humans have relatively large penises compared to other primates; evolutionary anthropologists suggest that this might have evolved through sexual selection.
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Among primates, however, induced ovulation has never been observed, though some studies suggest that human semen contains a potent ovulation-triggering protein.
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As our closest relatives, primates can shed light on the evolutionary wiring that drives our daily lives, and human civilization en masse.
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That, in turn, might shed some insight into how the more advanced forms of empathy seen in primates and then humans developed.
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Primates have been notoriously resistant to cloning efforts over the past two decades due to the unique complexity of their cellular machinery.
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It is the first time that primates have been cloned with the technique that produced Dolly the sheep in 1996 in Scotland.
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Researchers also destroyed parts of the monkey's brains with toxic acid to "intentionally worsen the primates' fear," according to the watchdog's report.
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To track the population of flies surrounding the monkeys, the researchers set traps using the primates' feces or synthetic odor as bait.
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Zoo employees discovered the primates wandering on zoo property the next morning and coaxed them with grapes to return to their enclosures.
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And for a movie that is paying so much homage to 2001, I'm glad to see the primates finally got to space.
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That is easier said than done, he acknowledged, since the local communities where primates live are often struggling to feed their families.
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" Today, Faurby continued, "the megafauna of Africa 'only' belong to six orders: Carnivora, Cetartiodactyla, Perissodactyla, Proboscidea, Tubulidentata (the aardvark) and the primates.
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In primates, according to Ian Wilmut, who led the Roslin team, the technique proved persistently disappointing, with "very limited development and no offspring".
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Babies have that pattern in common with non-human primates, like chimpanzees, which also laugh both when they're inhaling and when they're exhaling.
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An expert on both bats and primates, he saw the mandibles and immediately thought of an eerie-looking lemur called the aye-aye.
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Many animal advocates feel that primates should neither be in captivity, nor should they be treated as sensationalist "circus"-esque objects of entertainment.
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That protected mice, it protected non-human primates or monkeys, and sometime around Halloween we'll start the first injections of that in humans.
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As time passed, primates as a whole became more social and evolved to live together in groups, but only humans became truly monogamous.
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AI will become self-aware and experience an "intelligence explosion" that comparatively puts humans on a par with other primates, if not ants.
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Cress said that when baby monkeys or other primates are taken from Asia and Africa, their families are often killed in the process.
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Very few animals have brains that feature these troughs and crests, a select group that includes humans, some primates, dolphins, elephants, and pigs.
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But whales and primates have a lot more in common than many people realize, and that's what brought me to Chicago this week.
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Most mammals can synthesize their own vitamin C, but primates, having opted for a diet composed largely of fruit, lost the innate ability.
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Alves said he believes that "a lack of understanding of the disease transmission mechanism" is the motive when people do violence to primates.
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Before the vote, though, Episcopal presiding Bishop Michael Curry told fellow primates in Canterbury that a suspension would cause "real pain" for Episcopalians.
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In the past, he's done dental work on primates in Indonesia, wrangled lizards in Botswana and watched the echidnas (spiny anteaters) of Australia.
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Ebola virus disease, which most commonly affects people and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas and chimpanzees), is caused by one of five Ebola viruses.
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Other species of primates look less like humans than chimpanzees do and so it is harder to project ourselves into their laboratory experience.
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The Planet of the Apes movies aren't a reality... yet, but proof that primates are getting antsy surfaced on Sunday in South Carolina.
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Some sensitive higher primates react to poison ivy to some extent, as do guinea pigs, which often resemble humans in their allergic reactions.
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"I consider that there is a spectrum of animal consciousness, with some animals, likely primates, showing abilities closer to human consciousness," Jordan said.
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A 2015 paper in Primates suggested a baby chimp in Tanzania had symptoms similar to Down Syndrome, but chromosomal tests couldn't be conducted.
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While Simian Vérité's hodgepodge of cinematic primates spans genres, three movies provide the best cross-section of the series' many representations of apes.
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As the animals were killed and people settled on the reclaimed wetlands and grazing land where the primates lived, their numbers gradually dwindled.
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Barn owls have simpler brains than primates, but they can process information about things moving in their environment in a similarly complex way.
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As the least hirsute primates, humans have long sought out furred animals — trapping, killing and skinning them — for the purpose of wearing them.
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When the empty set was shown alongside a card with only one object on it, all the primates had a much harder time.
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Because of growing ethical concerns about experimenting on primates, research on using them as a source of organ transplants has mostly been abandoned.
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Dr. Gogarten wondered whether the clouds of these flies could travel long distances along with the primates, and whether they were carrying disease.
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Studying disease transmissions between primates and flies could also help lead to better understanding of how some diseases end up hopping to humans.
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And yet sheep, which are often considered dimwitted compared to primates, seemingly learn from experience what medicinal plants to draw on and when.
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For example, animal research with primates continues to be an essential part of the safe and effective development of certain critical childhood vaccines.
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Among primates, the sense of reciprocal altruism emerges from food sharing, and they are always systemically touching each other as they share food.
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Researchers have also been intrigued by evidence of friendship among nonhuman animals, and not just in obvious candidates like primates, dolphins and elephants.
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To bring evolution into a conversation about the biology of human behavior, it's scientifically not only possible but necessary to look beyond primates.
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Scientists believe that humans usually contract it directly from bat guano, from eating bats or from eating primates that have died of Ebola.
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Studies done on primates found no bladder tumors, and human studies in Denmark, Britain, Canada and the United States showed no connection either.
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In some cases, it may be possible to take the pressure off primates by building fish farms as an alternate source of protein.
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In the early years of Herculano-Houzel's research, especially once she graduated from rats to primates, she encountered substantial resistance from her peers.
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The NIH kept on essential staff to ensure the safety of critical cell lines, and to keep research animals (mice and primates) alive.
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When domesticated cats emerged several thousand years ago, the parasite might have expanded into a new host population that favored rodents rather than primates.
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The new analysis is consistent with the fact that simian primates are the only mammals to have evolved adaptations to seeing well in daylight.
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Salsa just showed off her new arrival to the public for the first time, joining Calliope's dad Mijo at the zoo's World of Primates.
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New research suggests this approach grossly underestimates the social complexity of nonhuman primates, and that there's more to social dominance than being a bully.
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Comm (2017)These days, it's no surprise to hear about primates controlling a robotic arm with their brains—even paralyzed humans have done it.
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Harambe, along with these primates, was a member of an endangered species estimated to have a population of around 175,000 left in the wild.
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The team at UCL suggests that as primates developed and became more social, their brain size grew to accommodate this increased complexity over time.
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The primates stepped off the trucks into their new home, staffed with animal lovers dedicated to providing them with the most satisfying life possible.
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Despite the new consensus that caloric restriction is beneficial in primates, none of these researchers are inclined to go on a similar diet themselves.
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Wired says it performed a number of tests on Google Photos' algorithm, uploading tens of thousands of pictures of various primates to the service.
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The results of this study, now published in Nature, shows that bats carry the highest risk of zoonotic transmission, followed by primates and rodents.
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Rabaiotti: The book is quite skewed towards mammals, especially primates — that was just because of who contributed to the spreadsheet and what they studied.
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Sadly, part of the reason these primates can be hard to find is because the animals are endangered in their native home of Madagascar.
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First, the "percussive technology," in which the tree trunk was used as an anvil, can be construed a precursor to tool use in primates.
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While cloning animals like sheep and cows is no small task, cloning humans and other primates through nuclear transfer has proved even more difficult.
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However, for both nonhuman primates and the human populations with shorter life expectancies, the male disadvantage in life span appears to be relatively small.
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Images from Robin Schwartz's rarely exhibited series of photos of primates who live with humans is on view at Staten Island's Alice Austen House.
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"This work demonstrated the feasibility and reliability of using genetically engineered non-human primates to study brain disorders," a statement from the institute read.
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Ebola virus disease, which most commonly affects people and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees), is caused by one of five known Ebola viruses.
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Previous studies have suggested that other animals, including pigeons, dolphins, honeybees and some primates, can discern same from different, but only after extensive training.
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"Subconsciously, it evokes negative feelings in others because it precedes a right overarm blow, a primal move most primates use in a physical attack."
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New weapons, resources, and technology has to be shared with these agencies to eradicate the hunting of primates for food – the bush meat market.
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The birth of these macaque clones is a proof of concept that could lead to the cloning of other primates, and perhaps, eventually, humans.
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Madagascar is perhaps most famous for its lemurs, acrobatic primates with big round eyes that are only found on the island and nearby Comoros.
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Only humans and a few primates (gorillas, orangutans and chimpanzees) are known to touch their faces with little or no awareness of the habit.
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Scientists are ramping up the breeding of lab mice as well as the testing of primates and other animals, but it all takes time.
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Hence scientists deduce that the change most likely happened after New and Old World primates diverged from each other around 40 million years ago.
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So far, aside from bats, vocal learning has anecdotally been reported in just a few other nonhuman mammals, including whales, seals and other primates.
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We apparently have the same number of genes for detecting smell as other primates, but half of them stopped functioning millions of years ago.
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It worked well for nonhuman primates and later for human hunter gatherers, but it has worked far less well as cultures became more complex.
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The situation has been particularly severe in Madagascar, a lovely island nation known for deserted sandy beaches and playful long-tailed primates called lemurs.
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The vocal tracts of other primates contain the same elements as ours — from vocal cords to tongues to lips — but their geometry is different.
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Certainly, rodents, primates and birds also carry diseases that can jump and have jumped to people; bats are far from alone in that regard.
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Congo has had eight outbreaks of Ebola since 1976, according to the W.H.O. The virus circulates in bats and sometimes causes outbreaks in primates.
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They're portrayed as the "free love" primates, but are also supposedly a more likable, peaceable version of their stressed-out, lashing-out chimp cousins.
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Most other animals have another two legs on the ground (or, in the case of primates, long arms) to keep them balanced and upright.
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Ebola, which causes fever, severe headache and in some cases hemorrhaging, most commonly affects people and nonhuman primates, such as monkeys, gorillas and chimpanzees.
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From gorillas to gibbons, primates are in significantly worse shape now than in recent decades because of the devastation from agriculture, hunting and mining.
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Primates are social animals that live many years, make attachments with others of their species and with humans, and grieve when those attachments are lost.
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But they recently began trials in primates to see how long the drill-disabling effect lasts in the body, and to work out proper doses.
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In 2012, she learned to play the recorder, showing that gorillas are capable of controlling their breathing, a capacity previously thought impossible for nonhuman primates.
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Activities such as mining, industrial agriculture, cattle ranching, oil drilling and logging are all responsible for dramatic deforestation in the tropical forests inhabited by primates.
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"My reaction to the photo and accompanying text of you smiling and holding a 'family' of primates you killed, dismays and disappoints me," Trevey wrote.
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Wednesday Martin, PhD, is a social researcher, cultural critic, and author of the instant No. 1 New York Times best-seller Primates of Park Avenue.
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During the 28-day trial, the researchers watched as the antibodies increased in volume, indicating that the primates had developed an immunity to the virus.
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"Everyone in the colobus monkey family has a role in caring for newborns," said Joe Knobbe, Zoological Manager of Primates at the Saint Louis Zoo.
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The new paper, led by Julia Fischer from the German Primate Center in Göttingen, also speaks to the potential early origin of language among primates.
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Given the long, racist history of white people claiming the people of the African diaspora are primates instead of human beings, Alciné was predictably upset.
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By the end of PREDICT's first phase in 493, partners had discovered over 249 new viruses in bats, rodents, and nonhuman primates around the world.
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At the last primates' meeting in 2011, a third of the archbishops did not show up, in protest at the Episcopal Church's stance on homosexuality.
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The group introduced a proposal to shareholders at LabCorp to track and report the Zika virus in primates housed at a number of company facilities.
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"Despite the impending extinction facing many of the world's primates, we remain adamant that primate conservation is not yet a lost cause," the researchers wrote.
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"They're intelligent primates and know they're not supposed to be out of their enclosure, so got back in themselves," zookeeper Alyn Cairns told the BBC.
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If modern primates can make stone tools similar to those made by early humans, how intelligent did hominins have to be to master the technology?
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While experiments with antibody therapies haven't completely cleared primates' bodies of HIV, understanding how the body generates effective neutralizing antibodies could help with designing vaccines.
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This phenomenon, called the "numerical-distance effect," has been observed in children and primates, and suggests that bees interpret numbers as part of a continuum.
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For example, in a chapter on the challenges of monogamy, he compares the size of human testes to those of other primates, promiscuous and otherwise.
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After a lifetime of working with chimpanzees, bonobos and other primates, I feel that denial of the similarities is a greater problem than accepting them.
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Ebola virus disease, which most commonly affects people and nonhuman primates such as monkeys, gorillas and chimpanzees, is caused by one of five Ebola viruses.
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"If you wanted to predict the next pandemic, you could study just bats, primates and rodents and cover a lot of the risk," Daszak said.
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Such is the strength of feeling that before the Canterbury talks had started some conservative primates were already dangling the threat of a walk-out.
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The impact: Koko's social skills made headlines throughout her life, giving a voice to non-human emotion and speaking to the cognitive abilities of primates.
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One of the main reasons why primates have been so resistant to SCNT cloning has to do with the way primate egg cells are structured.
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The animals live together at Pairi Daiza zoo in Domaine du Cambron, as part of a program designed to maintain the primates' wellbeing in captivity.
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As human populations around the park grow, understanding how diseases may hop between flies and primates — both human and nonhuman — will be of greater importance.
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After applying it to dogs, babies and primates, the researchers wanted to see what would happen when they added cats and kittens to the scenario.
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Los primates, nuestros parientes más cercanos, les han proporcionado muchísimo material a los investigadores que estudian la forma en que los grupos toman sus decisiones.
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Vietnam's forests shelter two dozen species of primates — gibbons, macaques, lorises and langurs, often in colors that make the human tribe look banal by contrast.
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A male reproductive organ deposited sperm into a female reproduction organ, where it could fertilize eggs — leading to baby ancestral tetrapods, mammals, primates, and eventually humans.
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Primates, who are extremely social and in the wild cover tens of miles a day, were kept in isolated, small cages and demonstrated severe psychological distress.
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That's an important consideration, because the ability to modify items from memory is typically associated with tool-making cultures, such as humans and some nonhuman primates.
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The animals are only found in the wild in Madagascar and are among the 25 most endangered primates due in part to the illegal pet trade.
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While these treatments are often tested on animals, a group of scientists have been working to create an Ebola vaccine to protect primates in the wild.
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In 2017, U.S. researchers experimented on 75,825 nonhuman primates, mostly rhesus macaques, the Chinese- and Indian-derived monkeys with brown fur and a reddish-pink face.
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The primates with the viral gene would have won the survival-of-the-fittest game, and the virus probably went extinct around ten million years ago.
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"Since we only discover the circumstances of death after the fact, we sometimes discover that some primates didn't have natural deaths but violent ones," Alves said.
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As the authors noted in the study, this cognitive trait may have emerged in early primates prior to the evolutionary split of hominin and chimpanzee ancestors.
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The tiny nocturnal primates, which weigh only as much as a stick of butter, have enormous eyes, big ears resembling oyster shells, and super long tails.
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It has long fingers including its actual thumbs, and its middle fingers have a ball-and-socket joint like a person's shoulders - also unique among primates.
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NAPSA claims trained primates are poorly treated, often ripped away from their mothers at a very early age and put in training houses where they're abused.
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The Ebola virus disease, which most commonly affects people and nonhuman primates such as monkeys, gorillas and chimpanzees, is caused by one of five Ebola viruses.
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Ebola virus disease, which causes fever, severe headache and in some cases hemorrhaging, most commonly affects people and nonhuman primates, such as monkeys, gorillas and chimpanzees.
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Eating less is beneficial in adults and older primates, but is not beneficial for younger animals — in fact, it might decrease survival rates, the studies concluded.
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His latest work, depicting primates sitting in Britain's parliament, sold for more than $12 million this month: a record Banksy price, according to Sotheby's auction house.
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Before the treatment can be used in people, however, it needs to be tested on human cells and then on larger animals like pigs or primates.
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The abuse of nonhuman primates in laboratories is sure to escalate given the debut of gene-editing techniques, human-animal hybrids and obsession with artificial intelligence.
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Only in the nineteen-sixties did scientists figure out how to study the motor cortex in alert primates, observing what it did as the body moved.
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Why it matters: Koko, chosen for a psychology research project when she was just one year old, shattered perceptions of language abilities for non-human primates.
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When she demonstrated she had learned to play the recorder in 2012, she shocked scientists who believed that primates could not regulate their breath, per NPR.
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After a week of recovery, the primates were each reintroduced into outdoor housing that included three to nine breeding females, all with a successful reproductive history.
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University of Colorado at Boulder anthropology professor Michelle Sauther has been studying primates and lemurs on the island nation in the Indian Ocean for 30 years.
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One highly cited paper from 1984 suggested that among primates, including humans, the left hand was more prone to touch the face than the right hand.
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In nature, primates climb, jump, swing, and navigate areas more expansive than 600 football fields yet we confine them to steel cages no bigger than closets.
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According to the Albuquerque lab, the 2014 experiments did not kill them, and they were returned to the general population of primates kept by the lab.
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And as a tourism destination, from volcanoes and mountains to inland lakes, Rwanda is the place to see mountain gorillas and primates in their natural environment.
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A Banksy painting depicting primates conducting business as usual in British Parliament fetched a whopping 9.88 million Euros at an auction Thursday, or about $12.2 million.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A Banksy painting of primates sitting in Britain's parliament goes under the hammer next week and is expected to fetch up to $2.5 million.
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The primates are confined to a range of about 1,100 square kilometers (425 square miles) in the Batang Toru forest in the Tapanuli districts of Northern Sumatra.
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When he calculated how quickly DNA mutations accumulated in birds and primates over just a few thousand years, Ho found the genomes chock-full of small mutations.
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She was found naked and seemingly emaciated in the Katarniaghat forest range in northern India surrounded by a troop of primates, according to The New Indian Express.
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In fact, the primates exhibited the ability to identify visual patterns from 1-9, as well as auditory instances such as hearing a specific sound three times.
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The research also shows that existing techniques for observing and measuring dominance among nonhuman primates, whether they be monkeys or apes, are insufficient and lacking in sophistication.
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The researchers note that 73 percent of Asian primates are threatened, compared to 60 percent globally, adding that two species of gibbon have recently disappeared in China.
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Kirsten BrownAssistant Professor, Anatomy and Regenerative Biology, George Washington School of Medicine & Health SciencesThe first thing to understand is that humans are the only habitually bipedal primates.
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At climate change's current pace, nearly 40% of the Earth's primates will be threatened by the extreme weather events that accompany rising temperatures, a new study says.
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Set in the waning days of the Vietnam War, "Kong: Skull Island" exchanges embassy helicopter rescues for oversized primates looming large against a fog-encrusted jungle setting.
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In a first for primates, sperm extracted from a once-frozen sample of testicle tissue was used to create a baby monkey, according to a new study.
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Based on research that has tested a wide variety of small mammals, bats, primates, insects and amphibians, several species of fruit bat have emerged as possible candidates.
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Their resulting study shows that fish, despite lacking the sophisticated visual cortex of primates, are capable of distinguishing one face from a sample of 44 new faces.
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Some critics of the new study say scientists shouldn't be "playing" with human embryos like this, arguing that embryos derived from primates would serve just as well.
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To make sure that the results weren't due to medication, the scientists compared these brains with the brains of non-human primates who had been given antipsychotics.
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The days have been filled with detailed lectures about big ideas on topics ranging from bonding and cooperation among primates, to conservation of species and their habitats.
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"Also, it's no surprise to see these girls on their two feet either -- most primates are comfortable walking upright (bipedalism) for short bursts of time," it added.
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For example, while more than 10 percent of rodent species are zoonotic hosts, a greater proportion of primates—approximately 21 percent of them—harbor human infectious diseases.
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That makes Kanako the longest-living chimp with this chromosomal disorder, at least that scientists are aware of, according to a new study in the journal Primates.
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"We call them feathered primates," said Irene Pepperberg, who studies animal cognition at Harvard and is renowned for her research with Alex and other African grey parrots.
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In 2014, USAMRIID, the CDC and other pharmacological labs developed a drug that protected primates and guinea pigs from Marburg, preventing it from spreading inside its host.
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The research also sheds light on an ingredient which has not always been well understood and which only elicits the perception of sweetness in humans and primates.
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Red meat allergy is what happens when people become hypersensitized to the sugar alpha-gal, which is abundantly produced by most mammals but not primates (like us).
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This is because the experimental dosages or treatments are often extreme to search for any effect at all, and furthermore mice are rodents, not primates (like humans).
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To illuminate the role played by the flies, future research may involve marking many more of them and tracking how they may move among groups of primates.
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Historically, it's been standard practice for new and existing chemicals that people come into contact with to be tested on animals including dogs, primates, rabbits and mice.
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The mouse visual cortex is kind of a mess, organizationally speaking—mice are tactile and olfactory critters in ways primates are not, according to some brain scientists.
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Primates have been evolving together with lice for more than 60 million years; as long as there have been humans, there have been lice feeding on them.
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As explained in the study, the researchers performed an attachment test that's been used on primates and dogs, paired with attachment style criteria from human infant literature.
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The new study, published in Nature Communications, is helping to resolve one of the more controversial areas of aging research, while also clarifying how CR works in primates.
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Neuralink will pay $796,006 for research conducted at UC Davis's National Primate Center, one of seven centers nationwide dedicated to the study of health and disease on primates.
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From there, the finger traveled to the University of Cambridge, where specialists made 3D scans of it, comparing it to bones of various archaic humans and nonhuman primates.
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These insects are demonstrating a capacity so far seen in only a handful of nonhuman animals, namely primates (including rhesus and vervet monkeys) and the African grey parrot.
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He continued: Other primates did very little of either but, increasingly, hominids did, and those behaviors helped set them on an evolutionary path that produced the modern world.
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The findings, published today in the journal Science Advances, deepen our understanding of these elusive primates — and could help scientists in their efforts to protect them from extinction.
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The ring-tailed lemur, native to Madagascar, is on a list of the 25 most endangered primates, partly because of the illegal pet trade, the press release said.
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Our treatment of animals sits at the forefront, with some suggesting that the role reversal of the primates puts a mirror to our own treatment of other species.
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Westworld As characters, the replicants in Blade Runner 2049 and the hosts in Westworld aren't as inviting as the primates in War for the Planet of the Apes.
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The two long-tailed macaques born in December, named Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, are the first primates to be cloned using somatic cell nuclear transfer, or SCNT.
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Previous research has shown that primates could "catch" yawning, but this was the first study to show that human yawns are possibly contagious to domestic dogs as well.
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For nearly four decades, scientists have thought that the inability of nonhuman primates to produce human speech sounds had to do with anatomical limitations in their vocal tracts.
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Image: Primate Conservation"Primates, such as these two tarsier species, serve as flagships for conservation awareness," the study's lead author, Western Washington University researcher Myron Shekelle, told MongaBay.
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She has a background in biological science and works as a histologist at Atlanta's Yerkes National Primate Research Center, which conducts biomedical and behavioral studies with nonhuman primates.
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"The very reason that nonhuman primates (NHP) are so appealing to researchers is also of the greatest ethical concern and contradiction," said University of Toronto bioethicist Kerry Bowman.
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The study's authors note that only one mechanism for color discrimination is known to exist, and it's the one that primates (like us) and many other animals possess.
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"Non-human primates should have the legal right to live freely or, when necessary, in sanctuaries only for medical rehabilitation or ecological assistance for endangered species," she said.
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The article describes instances such as younger monkeys bringing water to an older arthritic monkey, and primates refusing to take rewards greater than are offered to their cohorts.
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Details on preclinical tests are generally kept confidential, but the company confirmed tests were conducted on mice and dogs; rats, primates, and guinea pigs are also often used.
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Understanding the population history of Junzi imperialis and other primates in China is all the more challenging because there's a poor fossil record to begin with, said Hansford.
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Throughout, Bryan effectively counters the outside world's assessment of these individuals as property or lower primates by sharing the dreams, fears and affections that come with being human.
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Dr. Hare, who studies both dogs and primates, and specializes in cognitive neuroscience and evolution, also pointed out that the dogs could leave the experiment at any time.
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But at least primates have bands to connect with, whereas Trump is so alone, if a tree fell in his emotional forest, it would not make a sound.
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The rapid growth of cities has displaced macaques, geographically the most widely distributed primates in the world after humans, driving them into human habitats to hunt for food.
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The same kind of visual dynamic flickers across the whole of "Crowd of Crowds: 100th Monkey" (2017), which is covered in diagonal rows of grimacing, long-tailed primates.
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Ms. Giménez even became something of a professional artist, selling an original work depicting a rustic scene and no holy figures or primates on eBay for about $1,400.
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It evidently captures, in unparalleled detail, the repercussions of the giant doomsday rock that cleared the way for the evolution of mammals, including the primates known as humans.
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Those mammals amount to 754 species (humans included) from 15 orders—groups such as primates, bats, carnivores and even-toed ungulates (deer, cattle, sheep, antelopes, camels and so on).
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Dr Lehmann says his group is now in search of similar data from other primates, in an attempt to work out where human patterns of mobility have their roots.
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"[Lemurs] are one of the few primates that you can actually bring little kids, anybody in, and they will sit on your lap and you're safe," Alley, 65, said.
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"It shows yet again how smart corvid songbirds can be even if they have a very different organization of their brains compared to primates and us humans," said Nieder.
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A core finding of the new study is that scientists are oversimplifying the term "social dominance" when using it to describe the behavioral characteristics and power status of primates.
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