A primate species that looks like a living, breathing version of the Furby electronic toy has been found alive in the forested highlands of an Indonesian island for the first time in more than 70 years, scientists announced Tuesday.
Three specimens of the pygmy tarsier, a nocturnal creature about the size of a small mouse, were [...]
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Colugos (aka flying lemurs)—the closest living relatives of primates most notable for their ability to glide from tree to tree over considerable distances—are more diverse than had previously been believed, according to a new report published in the November 11th issue of Current Biology.
Primates are most familiarly represented by monkeys and [...]
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Reading this story makes me wonder if and how the results of studies on genetic differences between humans and other primates will affect animal rights legislation. What do you think?
Researchers have carried out the largest study of differences between human and chimpanzee genomes, identifying regions that have been duplicated or lost during evolution of the [...]
A baby colobus monkey named Darby was born at the Denver Zoo on Oct. 15 and can now be seen, weather permitting, with the rest of its troop in the Primate Panorama at the zoo.
Darby, like all colobus monkey infants, is all white — in contrast to the adults, which are mostly black with [...]
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Maybe there really isn’t anything that you can’t buy online.
Endangered animals, including chimps, marmosets and leopard cubs, are being bought and sold online, according to a new report.
Over six one-week observation periods earlier this year, the International Fund for Animal Welfare found more than 1,400 live, exotic animals being traded online. [...]
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Chimpanzees are known to form bands to hunt and kill other primates, including monkeys. But bonobos, another primate closely related to humans and chimps, were thought to be confine their hunting to forest antelopes, squirrels and rodents.
Not so, a new study finds.
In the Oct. 14 issue of the journal Current Biology, [...]
If you have just had a big falling out with a colleague, there is nothing better than the comforting and consoling arm of a good friend.
Chimps, it seems, feel the same way, according to a study at Chester Zoo.
The research is said to provide the first evidence that consolation in primates, such as [...]
What does Jack LaLanne have in common with a Jamaican lizard?
Like the ageless fitness guru, the lizards greet each new day with vigorous push-ups. That’s according to a new study showing that male Anolis lizards engage in impressive displays of reptilian strength — push-ups, head bobs, and threatening extension of a colorful neck flap [...]
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Just three years after it was discovered, a new species of monkey is threatened with extinction according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, which recently published the first-ever census of the endangered primate. Known as the “kipunji,” the large, forest-dwelling primate hovers at 1,117 individuals, according to a study released in the July issue of the [...]
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We’ve all heard about the damage chimpanzees can inflict even when they’re not armed. Japanese zookeepers almost allowed us to see what the primates can do when packing heat.
Ichiro the chimp, 42, recently escaped from his cage at the Ishikawa Zoo and snatched a tranquilizer rifle from a zoo employee.
After fleeing his accidentally unlocked enclosure, [...]
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