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Colorful primates don’t have better color vision: Study
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Researchers found that red skin and/or red-orange fur may be advantageous for use in social communication even in primate species with poor colour vision.
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Biodiversity organisation Aaranyak, stakeholders celebrate International P
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak with the objective to highlight the importance of primate species in our ecology, facilitated several collaborative awareness programmes in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh on the occasion of International Primates Day on Friday.
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Researchers use monkey poop to learn reproductive patterns of endangered s
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Researchers used muriquis poop to gain insight into how the primates choose their mates in order to better understand what goes on in their mating lives.
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Study finds potential solution for bacterial infection
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
According to a new study, a vaccine originally developed to prevent bacteria-caused diarrhoea has now been found to help infant nonhuman primates grow faster and will treat bacterial infections.
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Socially adept monkeys have superior impulse control: Study
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Non-human primates have been used by researchers to test one of the theories put up to explain how humanity developed to become smarter. A team from the University of Portsmouth led a study that discovered a strong link between monkeys' social organisation and their cognitive abilities.
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Research suggests cultural heritage may influence capuchin monkeys' tool c
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.) are among only a few primates that use tools in day-to-day activities. In the Cerrado and Caatinga, they use stones as hammers and anvils to crack open cashew nuts, seed pods of Hymenaea courbaril (West Indian locust; jatoba in Brazil) and other hard foods.
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Study suggests having good friendships might be linked to healthier gut mi
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Despite the fact that social relationships are crucial for the health and well-being of social animals like humans and other primates, there is mounting evidence that the gut microbiome, via the so-called "gut-brain axis," is equally important for both our physical and mental wellbeing. Also
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A good friendship a day keeps gut-diseases away: Study
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A recent study conducted on primates shows the secret connection between a good gut and a good social life
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Study shows differences between brains of primates are small but significa
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
While the physical differences between humans and non-human primates are quite distinct, a new study reveals their brains may be remarkably similar. And yet, the smallest changes may make big differences in developmental and psychiatric disorders.
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Another monkey virus may be on verge of infecting humans: Researchers
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Colorado [US], September 30 (ANI): According to new University of Colorado Boulder research published online Sept. 30 in the journal Cell, an unknown family of viruses that is currently prevalent in wild African primates and known to cause lethal Ebola-like symptoms in certain monkeys is "po
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Study: Chimpanzees blend their sounds to create variety of vocal patterns
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Leipzig (Germany), May 31 (ANI): A new study has discovered that ordered vocal sequences in wild chimp communication can shed light on the evolution of human language.
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Tripura: Deforestation, rubber plantations rise leads to primate habitat c
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], February 13 (ANI): Massive deforestation and increase in rubber plantations in Tripura have emerged as the major causes of change in the habitat of non-human primates as well as cases of monkey-human conflict in certain parts of Tripura, according to a study.
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