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Sequencing Thousand And One Genomes
Researchers report the
simultaneous completion of
the first genomes of wild
Arabidopsis thaliana strains
as part of the 1001 Genomes
Project. ... > full story
Great Bustards To Be Released On Salisbury Plain, U.K.
Researchers at the
University of Bath and
conservationists from the
Great Bustard Group will be
releasing 19 birds on
Salisbury Plain as part of
... > full story
Conservation Program In Rwanda Helps Turn Gorilla Poachers Into Ecotourism Guides
Conservationists at the
Durrell Institute of
Conservation and Ecology
(DICE), University of Kent,
are celebrating a double
... > full story
Blanket Ban On Bushmeat Could Be Disastrous For Forest Dwellers In Central Africa, Says New Report
A new report from the Center
for International Forestry
Research, the Secretariat of
the Convention on Biological
Diversity and partners war ... > full story
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Why Some Primates, But Not Humans, Can Live With Immunodeficiency Viruses And Not Progress To AIDS
September 17, 2008 — Some primate species, including sooty mangabeys, harbor simian immunodeficiency viruses but remain healthy, unlike rhesus macaques. The immune systems of sooty mangabeys become significantly less ... > full story -
Bonobos May Have Greater Linguistic Skills Than Previously Thought
September 2, 2008 — What happens when linguistic tools used to analyze human language are applied to a conversation between a language-competent bonobo and a human? New findings indicate that bonobos may exhibit larger ... > full story -
Unexpected Large Monkey Population Discovered In Cambodia: Tens Of Thousands Of Threatened Primates
August 29, 2008 — Biologists have discovered surprisingly large populations of two globally threatened primates in a protected area in Cambodia. The report counted 42,000 black-shanked douc langurs along with 2,500 ... > full story -
Mirror Self-recognition In Magpie Birds
August 19, 2008 — Self-recognition, it has been argued, is a hallmark of advanced cognitive abilities in animals. It was previously thought that only the usual suspects of higher cognition -- some great apes, dolphins ... > full story -
Massive Numbers Of Critically Endangered Western Lowland Gorillas Discovered In Republic Of Congo
August 6, 2008 — The world's population of critically endangered western lowland gorillas recently received a huge boost when the Wildlife Conservation Society released a census showing massive numbers of these ... > full story -
Extinction Threat To Monkeys And Other Primates Due To Habitat Loss, Hunting
August 5, 2008 — Mankind's closest relatives -- the world's monkeys, apes and other primates -- are disappearing from the face of the Earth, with some literally being eaten into extinction. The first comprehensive ... > full story -
Little Teeth Suggest Big Jump In Primate Timeline
August 5, 2008 — Tiny fossilized teeth excavated from an Indian open-pit coal mine could be the oldest Asian remains ever found of anthropoids, the primate lineage of today's monkeys, apes and ... > full story -
Newly Discovered Monkey Is Threatened With Extinction
August 2, 2008 — 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 ... > full story -
Simian Foamy Virus Found In Several People Living And Working With Monkeys In Asia
August 1, 2008 — Scientists have found that several people in South and Southeast Asian countries working and living around monkeys have been infected with simian foamy virus, a primate virus that, to date, has not ... > full story -
New Population Of Highly Threatened Greater Bamboo Lemur Found In Madagascar
July 23, 2008 — Researchers in Madagascar have confirmed the existence of a population of greater bamboo lemurs more than 400 km from the only other place where the critically endangered species is known to live, ... > full story
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