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January 23, 2025
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Jan. 23, 2025 Researchers used the environmental circumstances and fecal samples collected from the six years prior to the severe El Ni o drought in Costa Rica to study the relationship between the endocrinologic stress response and survival in white-faced ...
Jan. 21, 2025 Wild baboons failed to demonstrate visual self-recognition in a test carried out by ...
Jan. 16, 2025 When a bird drapes its nest with snake skin, it isn't just making an interesting decor choice. Researchers find that for some birds, it keeps predators at ...
Jan. 15, 2025 Understanding biological relationships is often critical when studying animal populations. Researchers have now developed a transformative approach that identifies stretches of DNA that two individuals inherited from a common ancestor. The team ...
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Jan. 10, 2025 The in-built in protection mechanisms offer a safer and more effective way to combat the deadliest disease of ...
Dec. 26, 2024 A researcher has found that the rapid detection of snakes by monkeys is because of the presence of snake scales as a visual cue. His findings highlight an evolutionary adaptation of primates to ...
Dec. 18, 2024 Scientists have generated human stem cell models which contain notochord -- a tissue in the developing embryo that acts like a navigation system, directing cells where to build the spine and nervous ...
Dec. 16, 2024 Despite the population being almost four times larger than it was in 1982, a new study published in the journal Ecology suggests the northern muriqui ...
Dec. 12, 2024 Using data from 23 studies of what psychologists call 'inequity aversion,' researchers combed through results of more than 60,000 observations involving 18 animal species. In what they said was the ...
Dec. 3, 2024 Brain tissue is among the most energetically costly in the body, and as a result, larger-brained mammals require more energy to support brain growth and maintenance. Exactly which biological changes ...
Dec. 3, 2024 Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has a narrow host range, mainly infecting hominoids. A new study reveals the structural differences in the liver cell ...
Nov. 29, 2024 When wild capuchin monkeys experience experience higher temperatures, the performance of their generalized immune system declines. This study illustrates how climate change many impact ...
Nov. 21, 2024 Compared to children, adults don't play as much, but social play into adulthood is considered a universal human trait. Play has a role in building tolerance, cohesion, bonding, and cooperation. By ...
Nov. 14, 2024 How do animal behavior researchers feel about the feelings of animals? A new survey helps to answer that ...
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Nov. 13, 2024 A research team reported recently that heart muscle cells grown from induced pluripotent stem cells can integrate into the hearts of monkeys with a state of pressure ...
Nov. 12, 2024 A recent study highlights that over one-third of Vietnam's 329 mammal species are threatened with ...
Oct. 31, 2024 Scientists investigating animal viruses with potential to infect humans have identified a critical protein that could enable spillover of a family of organisms called arteriviruses. In a new study, ...
Oct. 30, 2024 In common marmosets, the brain regions that process social interactions develop very slowly, extending until early adulthood, like in humans. During this time, all group members are involved in ...
Oct. 30, 2024 It would take far longer than the lifespan of our universe for a typing monkey to randomly produce Shakespeare, a new study ...
Oct. 28, 2024 Becoming less sociable protects older monkeys from getting ill, new research ...
Oct. 23, 2024 Fossils from more than 600,000 years ago reveal how Southern Europe's animal community shifted between warm and cold climate fluctuations, according to a new ...
Oct. 23, 2024 According to a new study, chimpanzees, like humans, must contend with a confined bony birth canal when giving birth. In humans, the problem was exacerbated by our unique form of upright walking since ...
Oct. 11, 2024 Female crested gibbons display jerky, almost geometric patterns of movement. Researchers have studied these conspicuous movements, which are comparable to human dances. They describe the structure of ...
Oct. 10, 2024 Embryo development starts when a single egg cell is fertilized and starts dividing continuously. Initially a chaotic cluster, it gradually evolves into a highly organized structure. Scientists have ...
Oct. 7, 2024 An international research team has used long-term demographic data from Japanese macaques -- a monkey species within the family of Old World monkeys -- to show that, unlike humans, there is no ...
Oct. 2, 2024 By studying rare fossils of jaws and other skull parts of a long-extinct Caribbean monkey, a team of researchers says it has uncovered new evidence documenting the anatomy and ecology of an extinct ...
Oct. 2, 2024 Dolphins are extremely playful, but little is known about how they -- and other marine mammals -- communicate during playtime. New research shows that bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncates) use the ...
Sep. 27, 2024 Research shows a threatening development for two endangered primate species in Bangladesh: Phayre's langurs (Trachypithecus phayrei) and capped langurs (Trachypithecus pileatus). In mixed groups ...
Sep. 26, 2024 A team has designed a new drug against malaria and identified its mechanism of ...
Sep. 26, 2024 Squinting into the treetops won't reveal the tiny organisms up there. But these creatures leave clues, in the form of DNA, on the leaves and branches. Now, researchers report that they have ...
Sep. 20, 2024 Neuronal pathways originating from the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) of the brain participate in different adaptive behaviors, but which pathways are used for distinct adaptive strategies remains ...
Sep. 12, 2024 Researchers have shown unprecedented control of SIV replication and decay of viral reservoirs by combining a stringent model of infection with the interruption of antiretroviral therapy (ART). The ...
Sep. 11, 2024 The evolution of bones in primates' knees could have implications for how humans evolved to walk ...
Sep. 4, 2024 The most frequently used mpox vaccine provides partial immunity to the disease but isn't always able to prevent severe symptoms or disease transmission. A new vaccine candidate from Moderna, ...
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- Similarities in Brain Development Between Marmosets and Humans
- It's Not to Be. Universe Too Short for Shakespeare Typing Monkeys
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- Fossils Unveil How Southern Europe's Ecosystem Changed Through Glacial-Interglacial Stages
- Birth: It's a Tight Squeeze for Chimpanzees, Too
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- Study of Monkey Fossils Found in Cave Sheds Light on the Animals' Extinction Centuries Ago
- Bottlenose Dolphins 'smile' At Each Other While Playing
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- Scientists Design New Drug to Fight Malaria
- Who Lives in the Treetops? DNA-Collecting Drone Provides Insights
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- Mix of Factors Prompts Owl Monkeys to Leave Their Parents
- Lemurs Use Long-Term Memory, Smell, and Social Cues to Find Food
- Unexpected Link Between Grooming and Physiological Stress in Wild Baboons
- Social Rank May Determine If Animals Live Fast, Die Young
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- Physically Impaired Primates Find Ways to Modify Their Behaviors to Compensate for Their Disabilities
- Breakthrough in Developing the PD-1-Enhanced DNA Vaccine for Over 6-Year cART-Free AIDS Prevention and Virologic Control
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- Zika Infection in Pregnant Macaques Slows Fetal Growth
- Something in the Eyes: Java Sparrows in Love Show Enhanced Eye Rings
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- Taurine May Be a Key to Longer and Healthier Life
- Study Finds Socially Tolerant Monkeys Have Better Impulse Control
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- New Study Shows How Adaptations to Living in a Cold Climate Promoted Social Evolution
- Researchers Show Mobile Elements Monkeying Around the Genome
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- Research Offers Clues for Potential Widespread HIV Cure in People
- Researchers Successfully Induce Primate Oocytes in the Lab