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A rare Ethiopian primate called the gelada makes sounds like people—giving insights into the evolution of human speech.
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Iran may have launched a rhesus monkey into space this week, but it’s only the latest in a long line of unwitting participants in our exploration of outer space.
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This holiday season, learn about a nutcracker of another sort—the bearded capuchin of Brazil.
Young Explorer Films Violent Monkey Takeover
Posted by Lauren Ward of NG Staff on February 9, 2012 
While studying the maternal behavior of gelada monkey females, NG Young Explorer Shayna Liberman had a front row seat to witness violent, hours-long dominance battles between males, which she caught in stills and video.
Posted by In the new film Zookeeper, Kevin James stars as a bumbling zookeeper who seeks relationship advice from his closest friends—the animals. Different animals at the zoo take turns giving their view on how to get the girl. But do these cinematic animals know what they’re talking about? We talked to biologists to get the truth about animal mating. Here’s a look at the animals’ advice in the movie, and whether or not it holds up:
A group of mandrills at England’s Colcester Zoo have been observed covering their eyes, possibly an example of a cultural development.
Posted by By Ed Yong (via @Not Exactly Rocket Science @ScienceBlogs) In The Descent of Man, Darwin talked about the benefits of life among the treetops, citing the “power of quickly climbing trees, so as to escape from enemies”. Around 140 years later, these benefits have been confirmed by Milena Shattuck and Scott Williams from the University…
Nearly half the primate species are in danger of becoming extinct from destruction of tropical forests, illegal wildlife trade and commercial bush-meat hunting, conservationists said today. “Mankind’s closest living relatives–the world’s apes, monkeys, lemurs and other primates–are on the brink of extinction and in need of urgent conservation measures,” the conservationists said in a news statement…
Monkeys in threatened forests are far more sensitive to fragmentation of their habitat than previously thought, the University of York, in the UK, said today. “An analysis of monkeys living in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains suggests that the impact of external factors, such as human activity, on species numbers is felt in forests as large as…
A shy tree-dwelling monkey with a black face and long brown fur, the kipunji, was unknown to science until 2003, when it was discovered in a farmer’s trap in a remote region of southern Tanzania. Now scientists think it may have had an intriguing sexual past. Credit: Photo courtesy of Tim Davenport. “The most extensive…
Hope for the survival of two of the world’s most endangered primates has been renewed after China and Vietnam created sanctuaries for them last month. One reserve, in Khau Ca forest, Ha Giang Province, northern Vietnam, contains 90 Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus avunculus), the UK-based conservation charity Fauna & Flora International said in a news statement…
A new monkey discovered in a remote region of the Amazon in Brazil is threatened by proposed dams and other development in region, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said today. “The monkey is related to saddleback tamarins, which include several species of monkeys known for their distinctively marked backs. The newly described distinct subspecies was…
Posted by —Image courtesy NASA Thankfully this is not a very odd sort of suppository. This is a squirrel monkey called Miss Baker, sitting in a NASA bio-capsule. On May 28, 1959, Miss Baker and a rhesus monkey named Able became the first primates to survive a trip into outer space. Both monkeys flew onboard a Jupiter…
In keeping with the spirit of Valentine’s Day, the Wildlife Conservation Society, which operates New York’s Bronx Zoo and the New York Aquarium, sent these pictures today: Photos by Julie Larsen Maher © WCS Paprika, a male red bird of paradise, presented a challenge for senior wild animal keeper, Patti Cooper. Upon his return from a…
Photo by L K Quyet Fauna & Flora International Hope flickered a little higher for the critically endangered Tonkin snub-nosed monkey this week on news that another population of the extremely rare primate was discovered in a remote forest of northern Vietnam “This new population provides hope for the future of this species, as the…
