Tag: Primates
Thriving in the face of adversity: Resilient gorillas reveal clues about...
Stacy Rosenbaum, University of Michigan and Robin Morrison, University of Exeter
In 1974, an infant mountain gorilla was born...
Expanding Alzheimer’s research with primates could overcome the problem with treatments...
Agnès Lacreuse, UMass Amherst; Allyson J. Bennett, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Amanda M. Dettmer, Yale University
As of 2022,...
Primates are facing an impending extinction crisis – but we know...
Jo Setchell, Durham University
From lemurs to orangutans, tarsiers to gorillas, primates are captivating and sometimes unnervingly similar to us. So it’s not surprising that...
New discovery: Madagascar’s bizarre aye-aye has six fingers on each hand
Adam Hartstone‐Rose, North Carolina State University
The aye-aye is one of nature’s most fascinatingly bizarre creatures. Native to Madagascar, this lemur is the largest nocturnal...
Lemurs are the world’s most endangered mammals, but planting trees can...
Andrea L. Baden, Hunter College
Madagascar, the world’s fourth-largest island, is a global biodiversity hotspot.
Andrea BadenThe island of Madagascar off the southeastern coast of Africa...
Examining how primates make vowel sounds pushes timeline for speech evolution...
Thomas R. Sawallis, University of Alabama and Louis-Jean Boë, Université Grenoble Alpes
Sound doesn’t fossilize. Language doesn’t either.
Even when writing systems have developed, they’ve represented...
Why we love big, blood-curdling screams
Frank T. McAndrew, Knox College
Of all the sounds humans produce, nothing captures our attention quite like a good scream.
They’re a regular feature of horror...
We train Colombian woolly monkeys to be wild again – and...
Mónica Alejandra Ramírez, Universidad de los Andes ; Manuel Lequerica Tamara, University of Sydney, and Pablo Stevenson, Universidad de los Andes
Colombia’s Andes Mountains...
EXPLORING NATURE
In Disney’s ‘Moana,’ the characters navigate using the stars, just like...
Christopher Palma, Penn State
If you have visited an island like one of the Hawaiian Islands, Tahiti or Easter...
